"For me, better or worse, work is worship" - @qasar

All I wish to prove is that a financial system based on true partnership, one that promotes circulation of money within people and communities instead of debtors and creditors, is not only more ethical. Over time, it's simply better financially for all. Thank you for helping us surpass $20M in three short years, all from word of mouth. Whether you invested, put your name on the waitlist to buy a home, or shared Neeyah with a friend, thank you. This is for you. We will build better together.

Every incumbent in history does the same thing. They make associations, sponsor navel gazing conferences and try to arrange big brother partnerships instead of doing one thing: CHANGE. Companies have literally been acquired to simply shut down the product that may pose disruption. For the David’s I remind you to remind yourself of your WHY and “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

"No fear. No distractions. The ability to let that which does not matter truly slide" Fight Club

"Far and away, the thing that separates successful entrepreneurs from everyone else is a Predisposition to Action. They think less and they do more. The average time between when they have an idea and when they've figured out some way to get it out in the real world and test it ...is about 15 minutes. Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea, but most people leave their ideas in their head - where the idea is going to be safe, and warm, and can grow to a tremendously successful company IN THEIR IMAGINATION. But what I've learned in my 40 years as an entrepreneur (and what I hammer home episode after episode on my podcast) is that there is not such thing as a good idea. They are all bad ideas. And the ONLY WAY you can figure out whether it's a good idea or a bad idea it to figure out some way to collide it with a real customer and find out. The classic story is that when Reed and I heard about DVDs and realized it may open up the video-rental-by-mail idea that we had been chewing on, we didn't rush to the office to write a business plan. Nor did we work on a pitch deck. Nor did we just "think about it for a while". We immediately drove into town, bought a used music CD (we couldn't find a DVD) and mailed it to Reed's house, and found out in less than 24 hours whether we were on to something or not. Stop thinking. Start doing." - Marc Randolph, Co-Founder of Netflix

One of the core components of our co-ownership model is being able to invest in any area without having a physical presence. The housing market is bifurcating lately based on housing supply with the most supply constrained markets being the Midwest and Northeast. We’ve been rapidly expanding our presence in these areas serving more families and bringing strategic diversity to our fund.

Lookin' at the hands of the time we've been given If this is all we got, then we gotta start thinkin' If every second counts on a clock that's tickin' Gotta live like we're dying We only got 86, 400 seconds in a day to Turn it all around or to throw it all away Live Like We’re Dying, Kris Allen

"Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion." ― Oscar Wilde

Came across Theodore Roosevelt’s “Citizenship in a Republic” speech. A few of my favorite passages: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” presidency.ucsb.edu/document…

This weekend I'm visiting Madison, Chicago, and Rockford. If you don't live in the Midwest you've likely never heard of Rockford, which is an hourt northwest of Chicago. If I surveyed people on where homes appreciated most over the last few years, I'd expect answers like SF. But Rockford leads the country in home price gains over the last four years. My aunt lives in Rockford, and when I'd visit, literally half the neighborhood had for-sale signs up. Now homes don't last a day. Taking action on market insights like this just wasn't possible with our previous funds. But our co-ownership model, with our vested residents/co-owners, allows us to strategically invest across 20+ states with no boots on the ground.