The Freedom Brief
25 new investor education guides from Freedom Commercial Real Estate.
A note from Zane
This month the team published 25 new guides on www.freedomcre.net. If you read one, make it "How to Evaluate a Net Lease Tenant." As always, these are written to explain how commercial real estate works, not to sell anything. Reply to this email with a question and it may become next month's article.
Worth your time
The brand on the building and the entity on the lease are often two different things. Here is how to find out who actually owes the rent, how to check whether they can pay it, why store-level rent coverage predicts renewal, and what the Bankruptcy Code does to the claim if it all goes wrong.
A 1031 exchange defers gain by matching one piece of real property against another, inside a tight closing window. A Qualified Opportunity Fund defers gain from almost any asset sale by reinvesting just the gain itself, on a very different clock. Here is where each deferral actually goes, and what a 2025 tax law changed about the second one.
A fee percentage tells you almost nothing without the base it is multiplied by, and the same 1% can cost two and a half times as much depending on which number it is applied to. Here is what each fee in the stack pays for, where fees sit relative to the waterfall, and how to add the load across a full hold.
This month's series
Stewardship corner
“All things are lawful, but not all things are helpful. All things are lawful, but not all things build up”
1 Corinthians 10:23, ESV
A written exclusion list is the easy part of biblically responsible investing. Enforcing it through a lease, an assignment clause, and a multi-tenant shopping center's recorded declarations is the harder and more interesting work, and it is where most screens are actually tested.
One number
Occupancy held at 95.3% through the first half of 2026 in that firm's midyear survey.
Every guide this month
Current Offerings
Bonus Depreciation Strategy · Hard Assets · Credit Tenants
Cash Flow · Gas & Convenience · Texas
Rule 506(c) · Accredited Investors$15M
Target Raise
~67%
Year-1 Tax Benefit
184%
Year-1 Depreciation
~12.0%
Target After-Tax IRR
2026
Tax Year
Potential tenants include: 7-Eleven, Chevron, Phillips 66, QuikTrip, Speedway, ExxonMobil
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Monthly Cash Flow · Investment Grade Tenants
Diversification · Single-Tenant Net Lease
Rule 506(c) · Accredited Investors$20M
Target Raise
15-20
Properties
7%
Projected Annualized Cash-on-Cash
18-20%
Projected Annual Rate of Return
12/31/26
Fund Closing
Potential tenants include: Starbucks, Bank of America, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, O’Reilly, Sherwin-Williams
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Targets are projections, not guarantees. Logos and tenant names are trademarks of their respective owners; no affiliation or committed lease is implied. See offering materials for important disclosures.
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