Looking for tips to increase income and not work more hours? If so, you’re not alone. According to CNN, millions of people are constantly looking for ways to increase their income. The good news is, with the advent of the internet, it doesn’t matter if you’re looking for ways to make money at home, or online, there [...]
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 [...]
WalletHub’s Richie Bernardo presents the best real estate markets for 2016. The team looked at U.S. Census Bureau data across 300 U.S. cities to find which markets were the best bet for home buyers this year. Simi Valley, Calif., has the lowest vacancy rate, 2.40 percent, which is 15.1 times lower than in Miami Beach, [...]
The Irvine edition of the World Property Journal reported that distressed home sales in the U.S., which include REOs and short sales, accounted for 11.2 percent of total home sales nationally in January 2016, down 3.3 percentage points from January 2015 and up 0.6 percentage points from December 2015. […]
From time to time you may come across liens and both Federal and State tax liens. A tax lien is a lien imposed by law upon a property to secure the payment of taxes. A tax lien may be imposed for delinquent taxes owed on real property or personal property, or as a result of [...]
Usually you want a lease to protect yourself from rent increases, moving and define what the lessor will deliver. Have you ever been stuck in a lease, when things change, and you have a year or more to go? You feel trapped. Now someone has a solution: Flip. Teke Wiggin at Inman explains. “Flip is [...]
The real estate industry caters to independent strategies–Technology vs. People Skills: Which Real Estate Strategies Will Win? For every investor, there is another way to go about conducting business. Some may prefer to utilize the convenience of technology while others want to maintain personal relationships. However, for one reason or another, there remains a void [...]
Have you ever considered Real Estate Investing as a Business? “Investment is most intelligent when most business like” – Warren Buffett If investing is better when conducted most business like, does it mean that more real estate investors ought to be investing in a more businesslike fashion? Should every real estate investor be investing as a [...]