The opportunity to take part ownership in quality farmland is exciting, but it does raise some questions for first time agricultural investors.
Here are the questions we receive most often. If you can't find an answer, don't hesitate to contact us
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To get started, Register Here. Once your complimentary FarmFundr account is created, you will gain access to our investment portal. Here, you will see all available farmland crowdfunding opportunities in full detail. Find something you like? You can invest right through the portal as well.
At the moment, our offerings are available to accredited investors only. However, we are working on creating opportunities for non- accredited investors in the near future.
We suggest creating a FarmFundr account, whatever your status, so that you will be kept up to date as opportunities become available
To qualify as an ACCREDITED INVESTOR, you must meet certain thresholds as defined by the Securities and Exchange Commission under rule 501 of Regulation D.
You must meet one of the following criteria:
Have an annual income per individual of over $200,000 per year (or $300,000 combined with spouse) with the expectation of maintaining that income in the future.
Have a net worth of more than $1 million (individually or jointly), excluding the value of a primary residence..
Be a bank, insurance company, registered investment advisor, business development company, or small business investment company.
Be a general partner, executive officer, director or a related combination thereof for the issuer of a security being offered.
Be a business in which all the equity owners are accredited investors.
Be an employee benefit plan, a trust, charitable organization, partnership, or company with total assets in excess of $5 million.
Please visit the SEC website for the full qualifications for accredited investors.
Right now, you can expect high quality, high profit potential farmland offerings. In the future, we plan to list a variety of projects involving agriculture, from farmland to agricultural facilities.
We recommend signing up for an account so that you can be kept up to date as exciting projects are added. We only list deals that we think offer the opportunity for substantial returns and are good for our investors.
Because of our rigid requirements when selecting a property to offer our investors, there may not always be a live opportunity on the site. By creating a complimentary FarmFundr account, you'll be among the first to know when these opportunities do become available.
Led by an experienced fourth-generation farmer, our team is exceptionally diligent in selecting offerings for our platform. We perform due diligence and careful analysis of all offerings before offering them to our investors. We do not list any deals that we would not invest in ourselves, and in most cases, we do.
There are so many reasons! One of the top reasons for our investors is that allocating some portion of your portfolio to a direct investment in farmland may provide you with a reasonably predictable and stable level of residual income. You are also investing in the most valuable commodity in the world – food!
CLICK HERE for more reasons why investing in agriculture is a good idea.
A minimum investment is stipulated for each project, which will generally range from $10,000 to $100,000, depending on the property.
You should view these as risky investments, riskier than an investment in a stock market index fund, for example. The same is true for any direct investment in real estate. You could lose some or all of your money in any of these investments.
No, not at all. You are personally liable only to make your investment. We choose our legal structures to protect investors from personal liability.
After signing up for a FarmFundr Account, you'll gain access to review our active projects.
When you decide to invest, click “Invest” and you will be taken through the process, step by step.
In general, we'll have you go through the following steps right in our easy to use portal:
• Provide your contact information
• Review the investment disclosure document
• Accreditation Verification. Upload documents to prove you qualify.
• Sign the Investment Agreement
• Transfer funds (via wire, check, ACH or using your IRA through RocketDollar)
An LLC is formed for each property listed on FarmFundr. As an investor, you own a share in that LLC.
At FarmFundr, we do things a little differently so that our investors can realize as much profit from their farm operation as possible. While each offer is structured a bit differently (see individual offerings for full disclosures), generally our model is that you will receive annual returns from the sales of your crop's harvest in addition to the appreciation from ownership of the land.
Since your investment results in the ownership of a share of an LLC setup for the farmland entity, you will retain your legal ownership, regardless of any business issues FarmFundr, LLC. may have. Our business model was created with our investors's security and best interest top of mind.
You will receive a K-1 tax form. It will provide you with detailed information on your share of the partnership's taxable income. Partnerships are generally not subject to federal or state income tax, but instead issue a K-1 to each investor to report his or her share of the partnership’s income, gains, losses, deductions and credits. The K-1s are provided to investors on an annual basis so that each investor can include K-1 amounts on his or her tax return.
Through our investment portal, you can invest with a your IRA with AltoIRA.
We are also able to help facilitate a transaction with most IRA custodians. Simply contact us to let us know who your custodian is and what amount you'd like to invest and we'll explain the processes.
