Real Estate Blog
Defining the Dollar Down
One of the most important concepts for investors to understand is that a dollar today is not the same as a dollar yesterday, and is not the same as a dollar tomorrow. Over time, inflation erodes the purchasing power of currency. This is critically important, because most people focus on the nominal change...
2011 Trend Predictions in Real Estate
One of the most impactful news items heading into 2011 is the announcement by Bank of America that foreclosure activity is being suspended, and the decision by government agencies to increase scrutiny on the foreclosure process. In the wake of this announcement, nobody completely knows how long this...
(Orlando) Expect a 22.5% Return on Investment in 2011
The city of Orlando experienced a tremendous increase in market prices from the year 2000 through 2006, and a downward correction in prices since the beginning of 2007. As 2010 concludes and 2011 unfolds, we expect to see prices stabilize and regress toward a long-term linear growth trajectory. Currently,...
The "Barbell" Strategy of Investing
In the marketplace of ideas, there is no shortage of strategies for investing to produce superior returns. These range from the "crackpot" infomercials schemes that infest early morning television to people that are afraid of the stock market altogether, and also include the research of Nobel laureate...
Your Online Financial Education Starts Here
\When it comes to making money online, you certainly need to know a few things to complete your financial education - though probably not as many as you might think. One of the those things you should know is that clicks are people too. Actually clicks aren't people, but each and every one of them is...
Packaging Your Commodities: Commodity Investing Through Residential Real Estate
For most people, it is difficult to read through a financial newspaper or watch late night television without seeing repeated (possibly obnoxious) exhortations to invest in commodities such as gold or silver. The logic of these advertisements is frequently sound, since it is certainly true that government...
Predictions for 2011 and Beyond Ebook on Sale Now
The recent conference call, "Predictions for 2011 and Beyond," hosted by Jason Hartman's Platinum Properties Investor Network, was a pretty big deal to those who attended. As world economic events continue to spin into a more dizzying ball of confusion with each passing month, it's more critical than...
Talking With the Stars...Jason's Marquee Guests on the Creating Wealth Show
In the last few months, Jason has had some big name guests on the Creating Wealth Show. Some of Jason’s recent guests of note are Pat Buchanan, Robert Kiyosaki, and Catherine Austin Fitts.
Pat Buchanan is well known in the United States as an outspoken conservative voice in favor of limited government,...
Building the Perfect eBay Business
The fact is not lost on the crack team of Creating Wealth staffers that not everyone out there wants to write an ebook and sell it on their own website. While, to us, this seems like a perfect way to bypass the details of packaging physical products for shipment, maybe this style of business is exactly...
What's in a Deal? - Pro Forma Analysis of Platinum's Hottest Properties
One of the greatest services that Platinum Properties offers (for free) is to deliver Pro-Forma analysis of pre-screened real estate deals. These Pro-Forma summaries are constructed using the Property Tracker software suite, and communicate a wealth of useful information about the deal in question. To...