Natural Born builder
I just had a really interesting meeting with one of my partners. He has been in real estate for more than two decades, just like I have been in IT for about the same amount of time. So when it comes to property structures, taxes, and regulations, he knows the game extremely well.
During our conversation he walked me through a structure for how a DAO could invest in fractionalized real estate while optimizing taxes. From a traditional finance perspective, the plan made a lot of sense: create one LLC in the US, another company in Switzerland, and then a third entity in Austria. The funding would come through an investment company, interest would be structured in a specific way to reduce tax exposure, and everything would run through the usual network of banks, lawyers, and notaries.
While he was explaining it, I could clearly see that this is how things have been done for decades. It works. It’s legal. It’s optimized.
But honestly, something about it felt wrong to me.
Not because the idea itself was bad, but because it felt like rebuilding the same old system again — just with a few more layers on top.
More entities.
More intermediaries.
More bureaucracy.
And the more he explained it, the more I realized that this is actually the exact thing I don’t want to build.
For me, the whole reason I’m interested in DAOs and blockchain in the first place is to move away from that complexity. I’ve spent most of my life building things in tech, and one thing I’ve learned as a developer is that the best systems are always the simplest ones.
If a system becomes too complicated, people don’t trust it anymore. They don’t understand it. And if they don’t understand it, they won’t adopt it.
History proves this again and again. A great example is Google. When it appeared, the internet already had search engines everywhere. Most of them were overloaded with portals, news, ads, and all kinds of features. Google came in with a completely different idea: one page, one search bar, one clear purpose. That simplicity is exactly what made it scale to global adoption.
That mindset has always influenced how I think about building systems.
So when I imagine a DAO investing in real estate, I see something much simpler and much more transparent.
It should look like this:
This is the house the DAO wants to buy.
This is the treasury.
These are the transactions.
The community decides together. The funds move from A to B. Ownership is visible. Yield is distributed automatically.
That’s it.
At the end of the day, money moving through a system is always just a transaction. From A to B. A yes or a no. A confirmed state change. With the technology we have today, moving value across the world is no longer the hard part.
The hard part is letting go of the old structures we’re used to.
A lot of people will say that something like this can’t work without banks, complex legal structures, and layers of financial engineering. But very often when people say “there is no way,” what they really mean is that they’ve never seen it done differently before.
Personally, I don’t believe that.
I believe we can build something simpler, more transparent, and actually owned by the community. And if we manage to do that, it might not just change how people invest in real estate — it could change how people think about ownership itself. 🚀
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