Tommy DobczykOpportunity Zone Advisor, OZ Wizard · Director of Development | Certified Opportunity Zone Advisor

Unlock Real Estate Deals: Investment Club Meets Fractional Fund! #shorts

5 May 2026 · 0 min

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In this short conversation, Tommy Dobczyk and a colleague discuss how an investment club can serve as an alternative funding route for investors who don’t meet a fund’s qualifications, complementing traditional equity funds. They explain that many fund managers also run investment clubs to supplement their offerings. The discussion highlights their current operational model: using the Land Shark Mastermind daily webinar to source and run deals, which recently produced a Letter of Intent (LOI) and is moving toward a purchase agreement for a property. Because the equity fund does not handle Earnest Money Deposits (EMD), they plan to raise the necessary EMD capital through a fractional fund, illustrating a practical case study of integrating investment clubs, webinars, and fractional funds to close real‑estate transactions.

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If they don't meet the qualifications for the fund, you could say, hey, well, I have this investment club as well that, you know, you, you don't qualify for the fund, but you can join my investment club. So we have a lot of fund managers that are doing that as well in supplement of them running a fund.
Correct. And that, and that just for the case study purpose of this, our understanding of how we're able to apply an investment club, kind of like what we have right now is We've got our— this is our Land Shark Mastermind daily webinar, and we use this daily webinar to run deals and do things that would otherwise— like we're experiencing today, we achieved a letter of intent. We're planning to do a purchase agreement on a property that needs— that could very easily be something that a fractional fund would be able to do the EMD on. Could raise the capital for the EMD through the fractional because that's not something that the, the equity fund actually performs.
That's 100% can work.