“Big Kid” Returns Go To Direct Investors

When most people think about investments, their minds immediately drift to vehicles such as mutual funds, hedge funds, bond funds, REIT’s, and other methods of pooled investments that are either managed or pegged against an index. Many noted academics such as Burton...

The Medicare Tax: A New Bite for Some Investors

Among the flurry of changes in tax laws that took effect on the first day of 2013, some new and amended rulings affect property owners – both homeowners and investors in income property. While some of these changes apply to anyone who owns residential real estate, the...

Rental Investing: Entrepreneurship for the Future

A recent article in Entrepreneur magazine reported that there are over 10 million small and medium sized landlords in the United States. That number continues to grow as more and more retirees search for ways to supplement whittled-down employer pension plans and...

Passive Income Doesn’t Come Much Easier Than This

Most people would agree that passive income is better than money you have to actually go out and work for and, in our humble opinion, the more passive the better. We’ve talked in this forum before about the wealth generating possibilities of membership sites but...

Rising Rents for Them = Passive Income for You

If you don’t have a passing familiarity with the phrase “passive income,” let’s remedy that. Passive income can be described as money you receive without trading it straight across for time spent working. A good example would be dividends paid on stock...