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Podcast: Uncontested Investing
Episode: How Investors Earn Real Estate Income Without Owning Property (REITs Explained) (Part 1 of 2)
Description: In this episode of Uncontested Investing, Suzanne and I kick off a new mini-series on alternative funding sources by breaking down one of the most common — and most misunderstood — tools out there: Real Estate Investment Trusts, or REITs. We walk through what a REIT actually is, why they exploded after the 2008 mortgage crisis, and how they've shaped the single-family rental space over the last decade.  We cover the different types of REITs (equity, mortgage, and hybrid), the difference between public, non-traded, and private REITs, and what that means for access, liquidity, and risk depending on where...