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...

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...

Rental Trends: What’s Hot in 2015

You don’t need a crystal ball to know that the US rental market is still hot. But as 2014 winds down, housing industry watchers are turning their gaze toward the future and making predictions about where rental property – and rental property investing – might be...

Got 5 Minutes? Learn Your Investing Purpose

Can a five minute exercise help you find investing success? If Adam Leipzig is right, it could. In a recent TED talk filmed in Malibu, the film producer and creative entrepreneur posed five questions that can be answered in five minutes to reveal a person’s life...

Student Loan Debt Hits Housing Hard

Students aren’t the only ones hit hard by the cost of a college education. The staggering burden of student loan debt affects just about every area of the economy – with troubling implications for the still struggling housing market – and investors building...