Gird Thy Loins for Obamacare
Tuesday, August 13
For a couple of years we’ve been wondering when the fallout from the Obamacare legislation would start to rain down upon our heads. Scattered stories have hit the news about how companies are cutting back work hours for full-time employees, trimming them from a 40-hour work week to below 30...
Investing in Broken Knee Caps
Monday, August 12
Just because you CAN finance a real estate purchase with hard money doesn’t mean you SHOULD. As with all investments, do your research and analysis first and don’t forget to include a doomsday scenario - in other words, what’s the worst that could go wrong and would it involve broken knee c...
Escape the Rat Race With Real Estate Investing
Monday, July 22
(Our thanks to Brandon Turner for his excellent post HERE that got us thinking about the topic) The sad reality of human existence is that most of us have to work a day job. Even more vexing is the fact that nearly two-thirds of Americans say they are not happy at work. That’s a lot of unhappines...
The Incredible Expanding Shopping Cart
Thursday, July 18
From this graphic one might erroneously conclude that the past 15 years have seen an unprecedented increase in the size of grocery carts. If only that were indeed the case there would be no reason to even write this article but, alas, it’s not. The carts are all the same size. What has changed ov...
#1 Business Rule: Don't Die Dumb
Tuesday, July 02
One of the things that small business owners become quickly addicted to is the notion of growth. After all, the reason why most of us go into business in the first place is to ‘make our mark’ on the world with a thriving, successful business. To the entrepreneur, there is little in life that is m...
Dead Broke Real Estate Investing
Saturday, June 29
Everybody knows that a headline’s job is to get you to read the rest of the article, right? So we hope you’re not too offended if we backtrack slightly and say that, in reality, if you truly are dead broke then real estate investing might not ought to be your primary concern. Let’s worry about a ...