I have honestly never had this sort of returns in my entire life (other than BTC, but then there was another sideline stupid story to it, which I will not talk about)
However, this is REAL....
Ever since I heard about this pair of brothers who wanted to start an idea of "share holding tokenisation" of properties so that people can afford holding a property of their own, which was a little over 5 years ago with their advertisement "as little as $50 USD, you could own a property share" struck my interest and put my trust in almost $58 USD (that was about MYR238 at the time, how inflation has cost everything...), today, I had my very first experience of a proper profit in this tokenised property investment model.
My very first token purchased of a Florida property share in 2020, getting my first first 4 cents week rent has really come a LOOOOOOONG WAY. I kept all the rents until the introduction of xDAI Gnosis chain and I started withdrawing my rentals to pay off bills, and some I reinvested to get another token of another property.
This property actually went through a lot of horror the last 5 years, particularly when the hurricane and flood damaged the house. Often weeks there were no rent, but I just kept it aside.
Until I suddenly noticed that the price of the token.... went over 80% of its value!
I could have just kept it since the value of the property there is so good, but also I got to learn how to "detach my feelings" with the things I have that is generating income, especially when its weekly "dividend" (% share rent from the tenant) has been decreasing.
Besides, I have never sold off a token from this company before, which would not complete my testing of buying of selling experiment
And I have to do it, even if it takes 5 years later.
The company and its interface has evolved a lot throughout the years, and I am glad that it is not overly hard to navigate to get the token found and to sell off.
However, it is important that this is a service platform where the company has graciously given people outside USA to have a chance to be "part of the shareholder group" and that obviously will come with service fee.
The good thing is that this company's service fee isn't a lot, and I am forever grateful to that.
Especially when the yearly "dividend" (of rent) has dropped 5 cents a year. I think it is best to move on.
And it requires 10 working days to validate and process
But if you are a verified shareholder, there should not be any problem.
With the income that I have in hand, I have decided to split to half as re-investment, hopefully (fingers crossed) that after 5 years it will have better value (and yes, Mexico is an unusual place to invest real estate upon). This is not a financial advice, but after looking through all the properties (in and limited outside US), this was one that I felt more "at peace", compared to my other share token located in Michigan that now yields ZERO rent returns because of corruption (of the building manager) and a lawsuit is ongoing to resolve this chaotic confusion with the local authorities the company is dealing with.
Other than that, rent are still coming. I still get around $1 a week because of other tokens and I am grateful for it.
Yes, the rents go straight to your wallet, so you literally don't have to worry unless your wallet is hacked
Did I make the right choice?
Well this is not financial advice, but I have been snowballing all the fractions of rents I received to re-invest, and to get my first investment all back in cash to settle bills with first successful ROI (Return of Investment) I think I am just grateful and happy.
@khimgoh asked me early did I ever get back my returns; now I can safely say, "yes! I do" now.
Until Then
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