When you trade in highly liquid, lightning fast, electronically enabled casino markets … you watch the news like a ten-foot tailgater at 100 miles per hour. And that’s who most of the mainstream financial media cater to. The more fear, uncertainty, drama, and doubt … the better (for ratings). So they pour fuel on the fire. […]
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Investors and their money are attracted to opportunities. They purchase assets, including properties and businesses, in the pursuit of profits. That’s probably why YOU are reading this. It’s why we perpetually peruse the news … looking for clues about where investors, businesses, jobs and money might be going and growing. After all, where people and
Getting in the flow of money on the move … Read More »
You probably know The Avengers Endgame is the culmination of a 22-film decade-long extravaganza of EPIC story-telling. What you may not know is how many great real estate investing lessons surround The Avengers Endgame. Here are just a few … and don’t worry, there are no spoilers! Lesson 1: Businesses and their jobs will move to
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What do pro investors do when the market show signs of peaking? They start looking for trouble … in a good way. Industrial Property Owners Increasingly Go After Value-Add Projects – NREI, 4/19/19 “With prices for stabilized properties rising … industrial owners invest in value-add and redevelopment.” In this case, the trouble is … “The
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It may sound like a medical condition, but an aphorism is actually a concise, memorable expression of a general principle or truth. We learned one of our favorites from a carpenter … (no, not THAT carpenter, though He had some good ones too) who advised … “Measure twice, cut once.” That’s a LOT of wisdom
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Old dudes like us have fond memories of beer-belly laughing out loud at the hysterical antics of Peter Sellers’ Inspector Clouseau in the original Pink Panther movies. If you’ve never seen them, check them out. Two of the best are Return of the Pink Panther (1975) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978). Clouseau is
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We’re still just a little more than a week removed from a mind-blowing 9-day mind-meld with brilliant thought leaders, niche experts, and seasoned investors and entrepreneurs … … so we’ve been busy catching up on the news and looking at the world through our freshly expanded paradigms. There are two things bouncing around our brains we think are important,
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We’re just back from yet another EPIC Investor Summit at Sea™. If you missed it, be sure to get on the advance notice list for 2020. It’s hard to describe how transforming and powerful the Summit experience is. So we won’t. Instead, today’s focus is on the flip side of the Fed’s flop on interest
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You’ve probably heard the expression … “There’s more than one way to skin a cat.” We’re not sure why anyone would want to skin a cat… that sounds gross and cruel. But the idea is there’s often more than one way to get something done. In this case, we’re talking about wealth re-distribution. We realize
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Real estate investors tend to like low interest rates. After all, low rates mean lower payments for the same size mortgage … or a bigger mortgage for the same payments. Nice. The current Wizard of Rates is Fed chair Jerome Powell. And he just showed up on 60 Minutes and told everyone … “‘We don’t
At this rate, something’s gotta give … Read More »