When a ship is headed for a storm, the captain will promptly announce “All Hands on Deck” to tell the crew that maximum effort is necessary to survive. The global financial storm is culminating into a situation that will require each of us to call the entirety of our...
As the housing market in many parts of the United States struggles to rebound, it’s clear that renting is hot. The rental market continues to expand with new types of renters joining the pool of tenants for all kinds of rental properties: single-family homes,...
A sobering report by Forbes online recently reminded today’s fiftysomethings that planning for retirement isn’t what it used to be. Since pension funds in some states are collapsing and the future of Social Security is questionable, these “pre-retirees” who haven’t...
Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2012, a report produced by the Urban Land Institute, states that in most categories, land purchases are trending upward, with hope for a recovery in the housing construction industry. But Jason Hartman maintains that land purchases don’t...
In the feeding frenzy following the US real estate collapse of 2008 – 2011, house flipping made headlines around the country, as buyers seized on distressed properties being sold for rock bottom prices, repaired them and sold them quickly for higher prices. This...
Inflation. That dreaded word, feared by consumers all over the country as a messenger of higher prices, less buying power, and a struggle to keep up with the usual standard of living, rears its head nearly every year. Statistics for the third quarter of 2012 indicate...
Welcome to Creating Wealth with Jason Hartman. During this program, Jason is going to tell you some really exciting things that you probably haven't thought of before and a new slant on investing. Fresh new approaches to America's best investment that will enable you...
Over the next three decades, the earth’s population is predicted to increase by an additional 1 million people. And they’ll all need a place to live. Jason Hartman recommends investing in income property for just that reason – housing is a universal need, essential to...
Not all property deals are created equal. When considering whether a real estate investment in a particular market is likely to yield a significant profit, it’s important to calculate the property’s return on investment, or ROI. According to Jason Hartman, income...
It’s not your father’s real estate market any more. Time was, the people who rented housing, be it apartments, houses or units in a duplex or triplex were usually people in transition, renting housing for the short term until they could save up enough money to buy a...
Today’s Flashback Friday is from episode 378 published last May 6, 2014.
Greg Palast is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Billionaires & Ballot Bandits, Armed Madhouse , The Best Democracy Money Can Buy and the highly acclaimed Vultures’ Picnic, named Book of the Year 2012 on BBC Newsnight Review.
Jason is in the Hot Seat today as Joe Brown of Heresy Financial asks him about his contrarian views on the housing market’s supposed impending crash. They also discuss single versus multifamily investments, identify the different facets and causes of the housing shortages across the America. Jason also shares a few slides from his Hartman Comparison Index (HCI) which shows that houses are not as expensive as one might think!
Today, Jason talks about the population, it’s demographics, its problems, and the effects it has with regards to rental housing opportunities of which you can definitely take advantage! He is also inviting to join the Empowered Mentoring via Zoom this week!
Todays Flashback Friday is from episode 376 published last April 24, 2014.
Chris Mayer is the Managing Editor of Agora Financial and Editor of the Capital and Crisis publication.
Mayer breaks down the unemployment numbers for us and whether it is actually getting better.
Greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun: Japan. But due to demographic issues, Japan might not be a country for long. This is one of Jason’s morbid fascinations… countries in a demographic “cliff” like many countries in Europe, Russia and China!