The Cashflow Chick was recently a guest on the Capital Markets Today Podcast. According to the annual Altisource 2018 default survey published last week, servicers are expecting increased delinquencies in their Federal Housing Administration (FHA) portfolios in 2019. Post-crash, FHA, which some consider as government backed non-prime lending, is at least 50% of new originations. [...]
Everyone hates to fail, but for some people, failing presents such a significant psychological threat their motivation to avoid failure exceeds their motivation to succeed. This fear of failure causes them to unconsciously sabotage their chances of success, in a variety of ways. Failing can elicit feelings such as disappointment, anger, frustration, sadness, regret, and confusion that, while unpleasant, are usually not sufficient [...]
While I was preparing to write about tips to spend more time with your family, I wondered why this was important when I read this paragraph from Liane Moriarty’s new book “Nine Perfect Strangers.” She was closer to her mother than to him. All three kids were. He hadn’t been around enough in their childhood. [...]
Christy Bieber at the Motley Fool writes, “Retirement is a milestone most of us will someday reach because few people work until the end of their lives. But only around one-third of Americans are very confident they’ll have enough money to live comfortably — and some may actually be too confident because we tend to overestimate how [...]
For many people, retirement means living on a fixed income that comes from Social Security or a pension. Unfortunately, this is almost always significantly less than the income you made when you were working full-time. What happens if you have debts upon retirement? While your income may be less, your debts may remain the same, which can [...]
The stock market has lost all its gains for the year. We are still up over 6,000 points since the Trump election. Some are getting nervous, and have moved money out of stocks into bonds. However, real estate and hard assets are attractive now, if just for a way to diversify. How Much Money Do [...]
Years of rising house prices in some parts of the country have given a lucky group of retirees an asset they probably never expected to have. Here’s the truth about downsizing. Research by Prudential suggests downsizing your home can raise as much as £85,300 or $109,629. So perhaps it’s not surprising that a fifth (22%) of [...]
Owning a rental property has its perks. Done right, you can receive a regular revenue stream that covers the mortgage and provides you with a respectable profit each month. Assume you bought a Los Angeles property ten years ago for $400,000. In addition, to the regular income, you were able to take $10,908 annual depreciation [...]
Forbes wrote about Working Smarter Not Harder – What Does it Truly mean? “Work smarter, not harder,” is a phrase many workers have heard throughout their careers. A phrase that often conjures the image of a high-level executive on a beach with a smartphone and cocktail in hand. The phrase touches on an individual’s emotional [...]
Real estate has proven over time to be a great inflation hedge. Investopedia says, “An inflation hedge is an investment that is considered to provide protection against the decreased purchasing power of a currency that results from the loss of its value due to rising prices (inflation). It typically involves investing in an asset that is expected [...]
