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,...
Jason Hartman: Welcome to the Creating Wealth Show. This is your host, Jason Hartman, and this is episode number 278. Wow, 278 episodes. We're almost breaking the 300 barrier here. And so many people like Roger Bannister’s Four Minute Mile and Chuck Yeager’s sound...
