Are you interested (perhaps desperately interested) in learning about how to save your home through loan modification? You’re not alone. It’s an idea many people are becoming intimately familiar with these days. If you’re just starting your research, here are a few...
It’s the million dollar question. The quick answer is, about seven years if you follow the Empowered Investor strategy of prudent leverage, debt management, and diversification. Does this mean we promise every person who walks through the door that they’ll be rich in...
Bubble this. Bubble that. You hear the word bubble thrown around in relation to real estate nearly every day. Some people have a general idea of what the term means but let’s drill down and explain it in a little detail so we’re all on the same page. The term “real...
There are politicians, commentators, and writers. Then there’s the solidly anti-establishment and pro-America Patrick J. Buchanon. As senior advisor to Presidents’ Nixon, Ford and Reagan, Buchanon earned a political pedigree which he put to use as CNN’s original...
We are turtles because we believe slow and steady wins the race. We’re not flippers, though some people do okay with that strategy. Our two decades of experience in all sorts of real estate climates has shown us many things. One of those things is that flippers have...
One of the standard refrains we hear from media talking heads and potential investors is that real estate investing is fine for up markets but what’s going to happen to you when the bubble bursts? Well, what bubble are you actually talking about? California? Arizona?...
After the attack on 9/11, Congress authorized the passage of the Liberty Zone, an area designed to encourage investors to do what they do best – namely invest money to get the economy moving again. Then Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and, in the aftermath, Go Zones...
Empowered Investor Network always tries to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to providing useful real estate products for our customers. Toward that end we have a timely Do-It-Yourself Loan Modification program that walks you step by step through the process of...
The most massive and heinous fraud ever perpetrated in the stock market was conducted on a massive scale by the big brokerage houses during the Dot Com Boom. Remember those heady days? If you ever give your money to a large brokerage house after reading this, do so at...
Lest we forget what drives Empowered Investor Network’s underlying belief that the stock market is a manipulated insider’s game strictly designed to separate you from your investing capital, let’s review five of the top scandals in recent years. 5. Worldcom – This...
