It seems that the headlines of the day are always filled with relentless drumbeat of sad news: the economy’s slow, jobs are stagnant, crisis and chaos grip the world. But a new book that takes a look at the big picture of economic and cultural trends over the last...
Cash flow - two words every investor should be focusing on to run a successful rental property. Whether the numbers are low or high, your cash flow determines your actions on each property and future investments. What is cash flow? The profit or losses that change...
You can take a vacation, buy a Tesla, and even have a baby using Bitcoin. And increasingly, you can buy real estate with Bitcoin too. The upstart digital currency has grown from novelty status to a legitimate player n the world’s money markets. But exchanging real...
Jason Hartman gets nervous when homes in his neighborhood start making dramatic leaps in price. Why, you ask? It’s because equity makes him nervous. Should a natural disaster come along, the homeowner is in trouble. It’s a lot of responsibility. If you’ve got an...
When you purchase a property, there are two component parts. There is the improvement and there is the land. It is important to understand what influences the cost of improvement (the structure) sitting on the land. Environmentalism and building restrictions certainly...
Jason Hartman says that the beginning stages of wealth building are like a space shuttle take off. You’ve got to stock up on debt—quality, fixed rate, long-term, investment grade debt. Debt that’s attached to hard commodities in universal demand. These are the booster...
A year ago this time, interest rates, particularly for mortgages, were expected to take a major leap, thanks to the Federal Reserve’s announcement that it would begin to taper down its debt buying stimulus plan around the start of 2014. But, surprisingly, those rates...
There are plenty of times when the heart, not the head, governs decision-making. We buy a car because it fits the image we want to show the world, choose clothes that make us feel good. But while emotions have their place in the choices we make, successful investing...
Many people find themselves in trouble with debt because they’re getting into debt for the wrong reasons—vacations, clothing, cars, and gadgets that all create the illusion of wealth. Many of us overspend and over consume to the point of financial hardship. It isn’t a...
A devalued dollar, a struggling economy and allegations of spying at home and abroad . . .is the US on the ropes, beaten in the struggle for superpowerdom by booming upstarts like China and India? Not likely, according to a recently updated article from The Futurist,...
