My six-year old daughter just finished the 1st grade. One of the things the first graders do is they have spelling tests each week. What does this have to do with real estate investing? Stay tuned. She had kind of a rough start with spelling at the beginning of the years. [...]
Continue reading...Monday, May 17, 2010
In my last blog post I talked about 2 ways that a newbie real estate investor could get financing. One of those ways was by having 50 – 50 [...]
Continue reading...Saturday, April 24, 2010
The federal government is putting together “sweeping” new regulations for the banking sector. What does that have to do with us as real estate investors? Plenty. Let me explain. One clue that the feds are serious about this is the recently suit filed against Goldman Sachs. Goldman Sachs is the [...]
Continue reading...Monday, April 12, 2010
I remember watching Wayne Gretzky when I was growing up. I’ve always been a big hockey fan, and I loved watching the great one play. Let me toss in few highlights for those of you who might want to jog your memory. The great one had some excellent advice for anyone who was striving [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 11, 2010
Earlier this week I caught a story that National Public Radio (NPR) ran on a California family that had a dream of buying a house. Up until now, it had always been out of reach financially. However, with four bedroom properties close to $200,000 in some of the areas where they were looking, [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, April 4, 2010
I’ve always been something of a health nut. I recently recommitted myself to my exercise program. For me, that consists of a short “wake up” set of exercises in the morning. I also commit to jogging at least 4 times each week at a bare minimum. I had been cruising along [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, March 25, 2010
CNN published an article awhile back (http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/real_estate/0704/gallery.stocks_v_realestate.moneymag/index.html) in which they drew a direct comparison between the stock market and real estate. The article pointed to an annual average return of 13.4% for the S&P 500 from 1978 to 2004. During that same period, they pointed to a “solid but unimpressive annualized return of [...]
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Tuesday, May 25, 2010
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