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Education for accredited investors: net lease investing, fund structures, tax strategy, and the disciplined approach behind Freedom CRE. Browse by topic or page through the archive.
Two private offerings can carry identical economics and still follow different rules about who may hear about them. Rule 506(b) buys silence and gets flexibility on who can buy. Rule 506(c) buys the right to advertise and pays for it with verification.
Bonus depreciation does not apply to the building. It applies to the shorter-lived property inside and around it, plus qualified improvement property. Here is the 20-year rule that decides eligibility, the acquisition tests that catch used property, and the carve-outs most summaries skip.
A syndication puts one identified building in front of you before you commit. A fund asks you to commit to a strategy and a set of criteria first. Here is what each structure lets an investor verify, which risk each one trades away, and the questions that actually decide between them.
Two listings can carry the same three letters and describe different obligations. Here is which landlord duties survive a lease marketed as NNN, what an absolute net lease removes, and how to find the answer in the document rather than the listing.
The 10-year Treasury closed at 4.96% on September 11, 2026, and Freddie Mac's 30-year mortgage average was 6.76% for the week of September 10. Here is how a benchmark yield travels to commercial borrowing costs, to cap rates, and into the negative leverage math that stops deals.
A commercial real estate fund pools capital from many investors into one entity that buys several properties. Here is who decides what, how the offering is made, where sponsor compensation comes from, and the order in which a distribution waterfall actually pays.
The tax benefits of commercial real estate come from four mechanisms that only make sense together: depreciation creates the deduction, a Schedule K-1 delivers it, the passive activity rules decide whether it can be used, and recapture decides what the IRS takes back at sale.
Passive commercial real estate investing is a role, not a property type. Here is what the limited partner position actually buys, what it gives up in control and liquidity, and why the tax code's definition of passive is a separate question entirely.
Faith-driven investing is not a product category or a promise of better outcomes. It is a set of prior commitments about ownership, honesty, prudence, and generosity that shape how a real estate decision gets made, and what gets declined.
A gross lease bundles operating costs into one rent number. A triple net lease separates them and sends them to the tenant. Here is how each structure handles taxes, insurance, and maintenance, and how to compare two quotes that are not measured the same way.
A real estate fund sends a Schedule K-1, not a 1099. Here is what each box reports, why depreciation makes the number negative in a year cash was distributed, and why extending is normal.
A triple net lease moves taxes, insurance, and maintenance to the tenant. That structure is why net lease sits at the conservative end of commercial real estate, and why the underwriting is really credit analysis.
