How to Create a Private "IRA-Bank" For Your Deals
Tuesday, March 25
[This is part 4 of 7 in a series about creative financing] This article is about my most-used creative financing tool: self-directed IRA loans. If you want to review my three previous articles about creative financing, check them out here: 6 Reasons I Prefer Creative Financing to Ba...
What's the Purpose of Your Business?
Monday, March 24
Capitalism and You I am an unabashed capitalist. Over the last 200+ years a worldwide movement towards capitalism has worked wonders. In short, it's decreased poverty, increased economic and political freedoms for billions of individuals, and brought many amazing societal advances l...
How Seller Financing Really Works
Sunday, March 16
[This is part 3 of 7 in a series about creative financing] My last two articles have introduced the concept of creative financing: 6 Reasons I Prefer Creative Financing to Bank Financing My Creative Financing Toolbox (And Why You Need It Too). In this article and short video I ...
More Options or More Money? My Personal Struggle.
Wednesday, March 12
In Oliver Stone’s iconic movie, Wall Street, Charlie Sheen plays a young hotshot in the stock market. At one point he confides to his girlfriend a personal dream. “I think if I can make a bundle of cash before I’m thirty and get out of this racket, I’ll be able to ride my motorcycle ...
My Creative Financing Toolbox (And Why You Need It Too)
Monday, March 10
[This is part 2 of 7 in a series of articles about creative real estate financing.] In my last article, I gave 6 Reasons I Prefer Creative Financing to Bank Financing. Bank financing isn’t bad, of course. There are many times when it’s very appropriate. My main problem with ba...
6 Reasons I Prefer Creative Financing to Bank Financing
Monday, March 03
[This is part 1 of 7 in a series of articles about creative real estate financing. Each installment will include an article and a short, 10-15 minute YouTube video] I graduated from Clemson University in 2002. Soon after graduating I began real estate investing full-time with a business...