How to Gage Economic Conditions

These are ways to determine economic conditions:

- Local Sales Tax Reports - paying close attention to the major factors affecting the major employers

- Auto sales - dig down to le...

Hi BP!I need your opinions about my personal financial situations.After paying off my student loans last year, I bought a nice home for our self and two cars last year. Big Mistake! I have never thought about becoming...

Right now, since I'm very new in this process, I'm primarily focusing on education. However, soon I will be incorporating applicable steps towards my real estate goals by networking and building relationships with peo...

There are a few investing niches that seem to get almost all of the attention. For example: multifamily, single family, (and lately self storage). What are some real estate niches that no one talks about that you've h...

So I know there are many Dave Ramsey fans in here, and I am currently using the debt snowball to attack my debt and since august I have been able to take out 17/33k debt. After my next credit card of 5.5k, I will have...

I am interested into getting student rentals and I have heard of people renting for higher than market value usually by renting rooms instead of the whole apartment or just being able to charge more for the apartment....

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
This book clearly describes our drastic use of and thoughts on money.
Take this into consideration when you are investing, when you are looking to partner or when speaking to...

Hi all, I'm currently a tenant in an apartment in Los Angeles, California. About a month ago we stopped receiving hot water in our showers. I called our landlord the third day of the issue, probably about the first da...

We all know that the credit card companies are IDIOTS! In fact, I'd go so far as to say that they're managed by complete morons. I've posted before how I received notices from Capital One and Chase that they were ra...

I was going to put a coin operated washer and dryer in my tenants unit. I pay the water and trash and tenant pays gas and electric. I was wonder if there was a potential problem with using their gas and electricity ...