Caught up in the quixotic quest to individually bail out every single American from the slightest vexation in their life, the U.S. House of Representatives will soon contemplate a bill that would allow bankruptcy judges to erase some mortgage debt for desperate...
The Hartman Risk Evaluator (HRE) is an indispensable tool for the income property investor. Why indispensable? Because it allows you to almost completely eliminate the downside risk in a real estate investment, while maximizing the upside potential. A bold claim, to...
It’s no accident that 85% of all wealthy Americans built their fortunes with real estate investments. But you know what? You shouldn’t take that first sentence at face value. Ask yourself the obvious question. Why is real estate a better investment than stocks, bonds,...
We think debt is awesome. Debt reduces our risk and increases our return on investment. But even better than those two factors, however, debt allows inflation to make us wealthy while we make no extra effort other than to keep on breathing. Yes, you can benefit...
One of the hardest jobs we have at Empowered Investor is convincing people that debt is not only okay but a critical component of the process that can make you very wealthy. Debt is how you leverage money into making it work for you many times over. Much of the...
