Outdated property tax laws in several states allow investors to pick up properties for next to nothing, as municipalities sell liens placed on houses owing back property taxes or even municipal bills such as water and sewer charges. Although this practice has been...
A recent report by CNN states that a key tax break designed to help struggling homeowners forced into a short sale or, failing that, foreclosure, may expire at the end of 2012 unless extended by Congress. The possible end of the Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of...
Habits have the power to make or break your financial success. Good habits. Bad habits. Habits are a powerful thing and most of us have a bushel full of bad ones holding us back from being all we can be (thank you U.S. Marine Corps). After more than two decades using...
As the dust settles from the Presidential election, trend watchers in all areas of the economy are assessing current conditions and looking to what lies ahead. For the still-struggling housing markets, this means turning attention to factors that may contribute to...
Four years after the start of the housing meltdown that sent millions of homeowners into crisis, the flood of foreclosed homes hitting the market has –temporarily at least – slowed to a trickle. A ready source of relatively low-cost income properties, foreclosures...
“Inflation investing” or income property investing, as Jason Hartman refers to it, can be a tricky concept to understand. To budding income property investors seeking to create financial independence and accustomed to thinking of the idea that debt is bad, it’s...
Tulip mania was a period in the 17th century during which Dutch contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily high levels and then suddenly collapsed. At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for...
Although the flood of foreclosed homes hitting housing markets around the country has slowed since the mortgage crisis of a few years ago, many foreclosures are still being held by banks, real estate groups and federal lenders such as Fannie Mae. Now, as these groups...
Recent news that the number of US mortgage delinquencies continues to fall indicates good news for the beleaguered US housing market as a whole. With better employment conditions and a willingness on the part of some lenders to assist struggling homeowners, fewer...
The dust is clearing after the US housing collapse of a few years ago and the general housing market appears to be rebounding. But more stringent mortgage standards and economic factors make it difficult – if not impossible – for many former homeowners to buy a home,...
Today’s Flashback Friday is from episode 460 published last January 2, 2015.
In the first Creating Wealth Show of 2015, Jason Hartman details some of the most important things you should consider when forming your new year’s resolutions, including making your assets work for you and using every asset you have available to you.
Your freedom and liberty are under threat. The central bank digital currency is slowly making its way into our society. Other countries are already embracing it and willingly surrendering their rights- all in the name of ‘protection.’ Is the US next?
Again, Jason is sounding the alarm regarding the central bank digital currency that is coming in our already prevalent surveillance state. And when this finally happens, it is ‘checkmate’ for the human race!
And talking with Jason about the impending RESET and the implications of this massive shift in our society is Clive Thompson. He is a retired Managing Director at Union Bancaire Privée, UBP SA at UBP – Union Bancaire Privée.
Today’s Flashback Friday is from episode 374 published last April 19, 2014.
Join Jason Hartman on episode 374 as he discusses a wide variety of things. First, a recap of the last several episodes with commentary on asset protection, Bitcoin, Michael Lewis and longevity.
Due to rising inflation, the US has lost 58 million-dollar cities and will continue to lose more. But in spite of that, investors in single family homes continue to improve on their profit margins when they invest in LINEAR markets across the country.