I have been a subscriber of iReit about 4 years, and love Brad and team’s daily articles. I have no substantial complaints and intend to continue to pay large for his advice and spot on analysis. My small complaint is that he seems to cater to obvious and long time responders on our daily chat. Some very expert-appearing ( by detail) responses appear in response to different analyses. Brad always seems to respond to these. I have written what some of these “ experts “ would call a dumb question. I call been called out for that as well by another so called expert. Not once has Brad ever responded to me or my “dumb” question. I graduated from West Point, have 3 Master’s degrees and rose to Director level in a Fortune 500 company. I believe as many benefits as iReit offers, it fails the “little people.” I consider myself ( self-described) as one of these.

Had to delete another money greedy app. I got tired of the flood of notifications and inability to read the volume of articles because of their high price. I get the same articles on the Apple News even though I don’t pay for either Apple News or Seeking Alpha. While I admit the article in Apple News is a limited snapshot, I feel it gives me the gist of the article, where as Seeking Alpha simply puts up a block from allowing me to see only their wonderful deal of paying a small one time monthly fee with a reoccurring fee for subsequent months being 6 times higher. Everyone says Seeking Alpha is a great source of information, but from what I can see is it is simply an opinion base. Why would I want to pay &30+ a month for an opinion? I see lots of people writing articles on something they profess they don’t even own. Some are cautionary tales, while others support buying a company, yet even when these people say a company is a strong buy rating, they always say I don’t own this company. Sounds kind of fishy when they promote a great deal and are lacking the confidence in buying the product themselves.

This used to be an excellent app for tracking your portfolio and setting price alerts. Unfortunately, an update earlier this year changed their promotion settings so that a full screen popup advertising their premium services will take over your screen every two or three clicks. And instead of just caching their popup, it seems to require a fresh new download every time, making the app just plain unusable if your WiFi is slow. It also used to be possible to save a preferred default view for your portfolio. Now, it’s still possible to save that preferred setting, but it no longer displays that way by default. So, click once to try to see your portfolio, get lagged by their obnoxious popup, click again to change the view settings to what used to be your default, get lagged by their obnoxious popup again, start scrolling through your portfolio to see what’s up and down, get lagged by their obnoxious popup again, click on one of your holdings to see more info about the stock, get lagged by their obnoxious popup again . . . You get the idea. I actually *had* subscribed to some of the analysts on the app before, but now I’m just looking for alternatives to view my portfolio from now on. Maybe TipRanks?

I want to like SeekingAlpha so badly, but their recent monetization choices are killing the exact feature which made this platform SO great.I used to use SeekingAlpha to read the bull/bear case on stocks I’m considering investing. The free content is pretty good, but the great differentiated features of SA vs other investing analysis platforms is 1) the contributor articles/ideas (this hasn’t changed), and 2) the commenters. SeekingAlpha’s average commenter is well above-average intelligence for internet comment sections (event financial sites). There’s robust bull/bear debate, along with helpful info exchange and learning which happens in the comments… and the reason that home-game analysts come in and comment is because it’s free (or, at least it used to be).Now there’s a “monthly limit” of articles which free users can see, which seems to be stifling the good/robust commenting activity. And that’s been driving users like me to search for alternatives. Could free users be monetized by ads or what about an inexpensive base package which allows visibility to anything but original contributor-generated content? Surely so.