Let’s walk through the four types of crowdfunding and look at the benefits and drawbacks to each. Before we dive deeper, let me explain why crowdfunding is so important to small businesses and ...

SAN DIEGO — Los Angeles residents who lost their homes in recent wildfires are turning to crowdfunding platforms ... working with wildfire victims, explained the situation.

Crowdfunding provides people and businesses the opportunity to access capital from millions of smaller investors rather than relying on a handful of large, institutional investors. Investors can ...

The idea of investing in real estate and collecting rents sounds good, but an owner is responsible for a host of things: making repairs, paying taxes, collecting rents and vetting prospective tenants.