One of the topics that has come up quite a bit recently on the Creating Wealth podcast is the notion of self-managing vs. hiring professional managers to oversee the income properties in your portfolio. The genesis of this topic came when Jason’s property manager in...
In the bad old days of the housing collapse, subprime mortgages were blamed as a major cause of the rush of foreclosures into the housing market and the subsequent downturn of the housing industry as a whole. As mortgage lenders have cleaned up their act, these risky...
More evidence of a housing market recovery comes with news from a recent MarketWatch report that, by the end of 2012, the US housing market had seen five consecutive quarters of home value appreciation – the largest yearly gain since 2006. But according to industry...
Once reserved for only the highest of income brackets, the alternative minimum tax (AMT) now threatens middle-income taxpayers with the possibility of a bigger tax bite. Because this tax alternative, originally designed to close loopholes that let the very rich avoid...
The recovery of the housing market continues apace, prodded by an array of Federal interventions aimed at keeping mortgage rates low and propping up vulnerable homeowners who might otherwise end up in foreclosure. Now, the government is ushering in the New Year with a...
