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REITS: The Facts Behind Real Estate Investment Trusts
How much do you know about the various types of investment options that you are putting your money into? A lot of people do some research into the investment paths they are using, but when it comes to really understanding those investments, and where they came from, they may not understand them completely.
 
One type of investment that is getting talked about more and more these days, but may have a misunderstood history is real estate investment trusts, which are also known as REITs.
 
REITs are investments that have a number of real estate interests inside of them. In some ways these are like real estate mutual funds where you purchase shares, which instead of being one share of one item are really a purchase into a number of interests. But there are some differences.
 
Normal real estate mutual funds work by different rules than REITs, which were only developed in the 1960s. At that time congress noticed when it came to real estate ownership there were two distinct groups, those that could not afford it and the wealthy who owned a lot of real estate.
 
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