In August 1971, President Richard Nixon went on national television and shocked the world by defaulting on the gold-backed dollar system created at Bretton Woods in 1945. Up to that point, dollars were essentially coupons for real money … gold. Foreign dollar holders could turn in their dollars and walk away with gold at $35 per ounce. […]
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Another year … another Halloween … another classic collection of creepy catastrophes from our listeners. The stories you are about to hear are all true … terrible, but true! And while these investors paid the price, YOU don’t have to … if you learn from their experiences. Tune in for terrifying tales of toil, trouble,
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Value-add real estate investing accelerates equity growth … often by increasing income. By making a property more appealing to a tenant or buyer, you make the property more valuable … without needing to wait for inflation. Value-add investing reduces some of the price risk when acquiring properties near the top of a market cycle. But
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In this week’s perusal of the news, this headline caught our attention … Bank of America declares the “end of the 60/40” standard portfolio Market Watch 10/15/19 We know it SEEMS like a pretty benign article … irrelevant to real estate investors. But au contraire mon frère … There’s actually quite a bit of useful intelligence packed
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Late filers in the U.S. just got finished assessing last year’s tax damages. For some, it was a pre-Halloween shocker. Fortunately, there’s still some time left in the current year to make some smart moves and take advantage of some of the most generous tax breaks available to investors … First, consider setting up a Qualified
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Everyone wants to add value to their investments. Value-add real estate investing does just that … often accelerating equity growth by increasing income. Each time you work to make a property more appealing to a tenant or a buyer, you make the property a more valuable investment … and you don’t have to wait for
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Real estate investing can be messy … and not just the property. Sometimes a deal … or even your entire portfolio … doesn’t fit inside the conventional lending box. So if you or your deals don’t fit the institutional mold, you’ll be glad to know there’s a wide, wonderful world of alternative funding solutions you
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In a complex financial eco-system, there are MANY components, dependencies, and inter-dependencies … … any of which can be the catalyst for a seismic economic earthquake. The flip side and basis of real estate’s stability is real estate’s relative lack of liquidity as compared to publicly traded securities. After all, you can’t hit a buy or
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Lending is a big part of real estate investing … but sometimes your situation doesn’t fit the traditional lending mold. If you … or your deals … require out-of-the-box funding … have no fear! There is a great, big, wide world of alternative funding solutions just waiting to be discovered. And the payoff can be
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Most real estate investors focus on the structure on top of the dirt. Others profit by trading in the land itself. Still, others find opportunity in what grows on top of the land. Today’s show is about what comes from UNDER the dirt … oil and gas. And there’s a LOT more to the story
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