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Ownify Home Fund - Investor Testimonials

Name: Ownify Home Fund - Investor Testimonials
Uploaded: 2025-01-30T19:54:54+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Frank Rohde
Description: The video features three investors sharing why they chose to invest in Ownify's Home Fund. Speaker A (Jason) recounts his stressful experience buying a…

30 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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The video features three investors sharing why they chose to invest in Ownify's Home Fund. Speaker A (Jason) recounts his stressful experience buying a home in California and expresses excitement that the fund will open doors for qualified homebuyers facing similar challenges. Speaker B highlights the fund’s double‑bottom‑line nature, describing how he channeled money from a donor‑advised fund (DAF) into the Home Fund, expecting both financial returns and the ability to recycle capital back into nonprofits. Speaker C emphasizes personal trust in founder Frank and the management team, noting that investing through an IRA provides diversification for his retirement portfolio. Across the testimonials, the speakers stress the fund’s mission to increase housing access, its alignment of financial and social impact, and the credibility added by principal investors sharing the same terms as outside investors.

Hey everyone, Jason here. Just a quick note to express how excited I am to recently have invested in Ownify's Home Fund to open up the doors for, for many qualified homebuyers, you know, to enter this market. I was lucky enough to buy a house in California years ago, but still remember, you know, super stressful time. I needed help from family, right, to make it work. So the product here will, from Ownify, will really help open the doors for, literally open the doors for many qualified homebuyers that are struggling to get into this market.
And of course, the fund is a really amazing opportunity to have that double bottom line investment where you can put money to work to not only make money, but also do good at the same time. And then to add on top of that, that I was able to put money from my DAF into the Home Fund and let that money power these home purchases and then make capital that will come back to the DAF and I can invest in incredible nonprofits is just a win-win-win.
So I've known Frank, the founder of Ownify, for a long time, and I have faith in Frank and the management team to grow and develop this new business model. It was also a nice bonus to be able to make my investment in the Ownify Home Fund through my IRA, providing some nice diversification in my retirement investment.
I just wanted to add, uh, on this section that, you know, obviously I'm a personal investor not just as a general partner managing the fund, but also as a limited partner. And I think that's important for two reasons. One, I want to make sure I do well with my personal capital. And then I think secondly, for you as a potential investor, it's important to know that the principals, i.e., myself, Ben, you know, all the investors, the folks who make the decisions at Ownify are also invested in the fund with their personal capital, not just as general partners, but as limited partners on the exact same terms and conditions that you are. And so—