Following the Money

Here's the part that has to be crystal clear: how a deal actually cashflows — where every dollar comes from, who it passes through, and what's left for the people who own a share (and for us).

It happens in two motions. Money goes in once, when the property is bought. Then money comes out every month, when the rent lands.

Money in — once

Many people each put in a small amount. We pool it into one entity that buys the property outright (or covers the down payment if there's a mortgage). Each person owns a fractional share of that entity — and therefore a slice of everything it earns.

We take a finder's fee at this step for doing the hard part — sourcing the deal and bringing the capital together. Then the monthly machine starts.

Money out — every month

The rent comes in, the costs of running the property come out (and every one of those costs is paid to a partner, not to us), and whatever's left is net cashflow — split between the share owners and our small platform fee.

The shape is what matters, not the exact figures (those vary deal to deal — see Deal Economics for real modeling):

• Gross rent comes in.
• Operating costs go out to partners — the manager's cut, maintenance, taxes, insurance, and debt service if the deal uses a mortgage. None of this is ours; none of it is the investor's job.
• What's left is net cashflow, and it gets distributed automatically — the large share to the people who own the property, a small platform fee to us for running the rails. → on-autopilot

Where our money comes from

Two clean, recurring places — and neither requires us to operate anything:

That's the entire economics of being the connector. The deep version — fee structures, returns, the full model — lives in how-we-earn and Deal Economics.