Thinking of jumping into crowdfunding? It’s like setting off on an adventure with your business idea. From the ground up, you ...

The idea of investing in real estate and collecting rents sounds good, but an owner is responsible for a host of things: making repairs, paying taxes, collecting rents and vetting prospective tenants.

Burry's "long" was PeerStreet, a real-estate-crowdfunding website that allowed qualified investors to buy a piece of a mortgage on a residential property, usually a rental. Crowdfunding had popped ...