As a busy professional, chances are you’ve got people trying to bend your ear constantly about investment opportunities. And sure … some of them sound amazing, but how do you know you’re getting in with the right people? Or maybe real estate investing is what you want to do, but you don’t have the time […]
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There are many ways to invest … and one way isn’t necessarily better than the other. Real estate is nuanced. It’s always a good idea to broaden and expand your expertise into different markets. That’s why we’re THRILLED to talk to our returning guest, Tom Wilson, about commercial real estate investing. His engineer’s mind can
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You may have heard that it’s bad to mix business with pleasure. But, when it comes to lifestyle investing, part of the fun is owning property in a place you love. Yes, it is possible to make lifestyle investing make sense for you … as long as you follow some important guidelines to line up
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Is investing offshore right for you? International investing can be both exciting and daunting. In our fourth installment of the Profitable Niches series, we hope to demystify the process for investors looking to cross some borders. Every investment has a risk … you just have to learn how to evaluate the risk and the reward
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Let’s take off our blue, red, and orange team colors … hold hands … and take a real-world look at trade tariffs in action. Most nose-to-the-grindstone real estate investors may not pay attention to, or understand, trade tariffs … or how they could affect real estate investors. But, like many things we obsess about after
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An essential part of being a real estate investor is finding the perfect combination of market and product type. But markets, product types, and even financing are CONSTANTLY shifting. How can you read the tea leaves and see what’s in store? Today, we offer some help in the form of Brad Sumrok. Brad has been
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Maybe it’s just us … But as we’re preparing for our Future of Money and Wealth conference … (our way of sharing our epic Investor Summit at Sea™ faculty with more people) … … we keep seeing headlines that make us think there’s more happening in the financial world than just a little stock market volatility … From Bloomberg on February 7th: Dollar
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Real estate investing is a VERY different approach to wealth building than paper asset investing. You could say they’re two different worlds. But the paper world has far more impact on real estate investing than many real estate investors realize. And when those worlds collide, it’s often a painful shock to real estate investors. The
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If you’re a newshawk like us, you’ve probably noticed the world is a little crazy. Even something as mundane as money and wealth has become weird. The most obvious case in point is the dramatic rise and retreat of Bitcoin. In 2017, something triggered a rush of money into Bitcoin … driving it from $1000
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You might think this is a political rant about income inequality … or contrasting the America of today to some past period of “the good old days.” But it’s really more pragmatic. Right now headlines say the economy is booming, unemployment is down, the stock market is up, and the biggest problem in housing is there’s
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