Real Estate: Still the Leading US Asset

If you put your money on coffee and cattle in 2014, you might be smiling all the way to the bank. But if you backed crude oil and gas – well, not so much. That’s the verdict from Business Insider’s recent charting of the performance of what it claims are all the major...

Moving Data Holds Clues for Investors

The US has always been a restless nation. Moving – whether across the street or across the country – is a given in the lives of most Americans, who pack up and head out for work, school and countless other reasons. Recent data on destinations and departures from the...

The Successful Investor: Resolutions for 2015

The New Year is just around the corner, and that’s a time for staking stock of the past year’s achievements, mistakes and goals for the future. For income property investors, there’s no shortage of suggested resolutions for building more wealth in 2015. And most of...

Single Moms Drive Shifts in Rental Housing

More than half of American children live with a single mom. That’s the finding of a new study on the changing demographics of American culture – and those numbers, and the economic realities behind them, mean new challenges and opportunities for rental property...

Feds Officially Fire Up HOUSING CRASH, ROUND 2

The Bryan Ellis Investing Letter – Artificially-low down payments and overly-easy mortgage qualifying worked so well just a few years ago that the feds are gearing up to do it again. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac officially announced this week that they will begin...