From Optimist to Opportunist

If you’ve lived through the past five years, it should come as no surprise that it is exceedingly difficult to be an optimist—at least when it comes to your investment attitude. And that’s okay. Jason Hartman embodies the philosophy that it’s best to embrace what you...

Jason Hartman’s Ten Commandments: Use Borrowed Money

Many of us have images of a classic American childhood—playing hockey in the street, dripping watermelon and popsicles, watching baseball. Perhaps they’re based in memory or perhaps television. Chances are, there’s a neighbor on the other side of a too-tall fence, his...

Jason Hartman’s Ten Commandments: Do Not Gamble

While risky investment strategies like house flipping hold the promise of quick cash, the secret to true wealth—long term wealth—is in the informed purchase of value-appreciating property. In fact, when you choose to involve yourself in such gambling, you disobey...

The “Stuff” Value of Real Estate

When considering the value of an asset, what most people consider is the nominal value or “price” of the asset.  When prices are going up, people get excited, and greedy.  Rational analysis quickly gives way to fanciful visions of easy wealth.  Conversely, when prices...

Property Inspections Protect Investors

Income property is a long-term strategy for building wealth, as Jason Hartman always says. And while it may be tempting to jump right in and snap up a promising property it pays to start o on the right foot by exercising some caution and getting the property...