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Who wants to visit Bernie in prison?

Who wants to visit Bernie in prison?

Let’s have one more blog devoted to good old Bernie Madoff. We’re talking about the Wall Street schemer who bilked investors out of tens of billions of dollars with his history-making Ponzi Scheme. So where’s Bernie going to set up shop in prison? What’s life going to...

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Direct control of your investments – exhibit A.

Direct control of your investments – exhibit A.

Former NASDQ chairman, Bernie Madoff, will be spending the next 150 years in prison. Since he’s 71 right now, that means he’ll be a free man once again at age 221. Nobody’s feeling too sorry for The Ponzi King right now though. Even his sons refuse to talk to him. The...

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Identity theft and finding the right tenant.

Identity theft and finding the right tenant.

It’s no secret identity theft is a booming business. This can have serious impact on you as an income property owner. It’s hard enough to find quality tenants without having to worry about whether they are actually who they say they are. I mean, what better way for...

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More on the “national” housing market.

More on the “national” housing market.

Just read a funny analogy about the myth of a US housing market. It went something like this. Coming up with a national housing number is like a weatherman who combines weather conditions in Nome, Alaska and Key West, Florida to arrive at a national average...

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Jason loves his new iPhone application.

Jason loves his new iPhone application.

The truth is Jason not only loves his iPhone but he really loves the fact that there is now a Property Tracker application to run on it. Longtime listeners have heard of Property Tracker before. It is Empowered Investor Network’s software of choice for small to medium...

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Two stages of wealth creation.

Two stages of wealth creation.

Buying real estate for investment purposes can seem like a big chunk of information to digest if you look at it all at once. Let’s break it down into more manageable bites. The simplest part is Stage 1. During this time your primary focus is to stock up on debt. You...

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The Reluctant Investor’s Lament.

The Reluctant Investor’s Lament.

Jason likes to close the monthly Creating Wealth in Today’s Economy seminar with a poem called The Reluctant Investor’s Lament. It was written in 1977, but still packs a wallop of powerful thoughts. Below is an abridged version for your reading pleasure. “I hesitate...

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The easy way to get a loan modification.

The easy way to get a loan modification.

Every once in a while you hear a story that makes you go, “Hmm, how DOES something like that even happen?” It all goes back to the secondary mortgage market and the practice of banks and Wall Street firms buying and selling pools of mortgages – one loan was sold 39...

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