{"id":2581,"date":"2012-07-22T18:17:36","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2012-07-22T18:17:36","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T22:17:36","slug":"why-many-reits-are-similar-to-ponzi-schemes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/why-many-reits-are-similar-to-ponzi-schemes\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Many REITS Are Similar to Ponzi Schemes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We feel the stocks listed below carry significant risk.<\/p>\n<p>While their valuations have held, it is due to an\u00a0unsustainable\u00a0dividend being financed by equity investors in search of yield, rather than the inherent ability of these firms to\u00a0generate\u00a0consistent free cash flows.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, as will be pointed out, each of these firms have a questionable financial structure as well as carry risk to prospective free cash flows.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>REPORT AVAILABLE FOR $250,000<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/why-many-reits-are-similar-to-ponzi-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p><div class=\"tweetthis\" style=\"text-align:left;\"><p> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Why+Many+REITS+Are+Similar+to+Ponzi+Schemes+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2581\" title=\"Post to Twitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"nothumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/tweet-this\/icons\/en\/twitter\/tt-twitter.png\" alt=\"Post to Twitter\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> <a class=\"tt\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home\/?status=Why+Many+REITS+Are+Similar+to+Ponzi+Schemes+https%3A%2F%2Fwww.credittrends.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D2581\" title=\"Post to Twitter\">Tweet This Post<\/a><\/p><\/div><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We feel the stocks listed below carry significant risk. While their valuations have held, it is due to an\u00a0unsustainable\u00a0dividend being financed by equity investors in search of yield, rather than the inherent ability of these firms to\u00a0generate\u00a0consistent free cash flows. In addition, as will be pointed out, each of these firms have a questionable [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n<p class=\"facebook\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/22\/why-many-reits-are-similar-to-ponzi-schemes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Share on Facebook<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2582,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2581\/revisions\/2582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.credittrends.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}