Investing Archive

How does the rich stay rich when they get rich? This question of how the rich stays rich once they get rich has been asked too many times, but the answers are not too obvious. …

Investing in Multi-Family Real Estate: Special Problems with Older Properties A great many men and women are finding investments in real estate to be very profitable. In this regard, there is a significant number of …

The economic environment in 2011 is riddled with conflicting market indicators that point to the necessity for a well thought out and developed investment plan for 2011. Around the spring of 2011, the U.S. national …

A 1031 Exchange (Tax-Deferred Exchange) Is One Of The Most Powerful Tax Deferral Strategies Remaining Available For Taxpayers. Anyone involved with advising or counseling real estate investors should know about tax-deferred exchanges, including Realtors, lawyers, …

Is Options Trading Right For Me? The most common perception of options trading is high risk, high reward trading, similar to gambling at Vegas, with worse odds. Because people do not understand options, and because …

There is no such thing as being too young to invest. If you have spare money lying around at a young age I highly encourage you to invest. Many children are exposed to investing by …

If you’re new to investing, and you want to purchase shares of individual companies, consider “buying what you know.” In other words, invest in companies you’re familiar with. If you don’t know any companies, invest …

INVESTING IN OUR FUTURE WAR AGAINST HUNGER: COLONIES IN SPACE Advice to President Obama: dust off an old idea. How can we invest in the future of Mankind in such a way that would provide …

Using the Section 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange vehicle for deferring capital gains tax at both the Federal and State levels is one of the best tools available for preserving and building your personal wealth. The …

Because of the current problem being experienced with sub-prime mortgages, the credit-crunch and the general instability of the financial markets, the real estate industry is experiencing a period of decline, with property prices falling. Furthermore, …

Getting started with investing can be as easy as opening a savings account. A savings account may have been started as early as childhood by your parents, and continued until you were an adult. This would definitely be a …

Annual Percentage Yield is important because it gives you a better understanding of the way that keeping money in savings has greater benefits over a longer period of time. Because your investment compounds on itself, …

Investing in an Exchange Traded Fund (ETF) has become one of the best ways to cash in on the increasing value of gold bullion. A gold ETF is an investment that rises and fall with the …

Investing wisely takes years of experience, therefore it’s best done when carefully planned at an early age. Parents should help their children understand the value of money and this is best done if they are …

Property managers can be worth their weight in gold if they are effective and efficient.  Put simply, a property manager maintains your property in almost every way possible.  Property managers collect rents, keep track of …

It is a sad fact that many home owners cannot afford to pay their mortgages. At the end of the day, banks re-possess those homes where payments are not met, and although sad for those …

Investing in Multi-Family Real Estate: Cash Flow It’s Fundamental As you go about considering whether or not an investment in multi-family real estate is the best option for you, there is one consideration that you …

When Thomas Stanley and William Danko began to research wealthy people for their book, “The Millionaire Next Door,” they found among other surprises that a high percentage of multi-millionaires did not buy brand new cars …

“Invest to win in 2007” does not literally mean just for the year alone. It is an analogy. To win is of course to gain financially, in a positive sense, and to venture on a …

Unless or are a “Guru” or some such “Seer” into the future making purchases of the capital stocks of the corporations that are listed on the World’s stock exchanges is still a very risky thing …

Real estate bubbles occur when a market is over heated and people are still investing in property for profit, but the supply is on the verge of out pacing the demand for homes. When it …

Investing in stocks is a good choice, however when common stocks cost under $5 per share these are known as penny stocks. New companies who are in dire need of capital are mainly the ones …

We all know that if we want to have any sort of true wealth we must do much more than work and put our money under a mattress. We all know that we have to …

For investors moving from single family homes or something like duplexes, graduating to apartment buildings brings with it a whole new complexity along with the potentially greater profits. Due diligence is extremely important. You should …

Investing to win is always a tricky thing. The fact is that when you play to beat the market, you are taking unnecessary risks. The secret to winning is diversification and time. 1. The main …

Following the crash of the equity indexes in 2000, money started flowing into real estate across the country. Investors were just fed up with “paper” gains on intangible assets. The thinking was, and I heard …

I have several blogs that extol, the advantages of investing in apartment buildings. And now I will share with you that same information. However I will be specific about the type of real estate you …

The efficient markets hypothesis claims financial and industry markets quickly incorporate economic conditions, and market forces into the prices of financial instruments, an example of which are stocks. In an efficient market, financial strengths and …

‘Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves’. Well, pennies and even pounds don’t go that far these days but the logic behind the statement is still valid. If you can avoid …

Greed is what drives the stock market on a daily basis. For long-term passive investors – the people who buy broad mutual funds and just let their investments sit for decades – greed doesn’t play …