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4/10/11: Bookkeeping – The Secret to Long Term Profitability

4/10/11: Bookkeeping – The Secret to Long Term Profitability

Unless you’re a Jedi Knight, it’s probably not smart to simply trust your feelings when it comes to piloting your real estate investments.  We mere mortals have to rely upon our gauges to really know what’s happening so we can make important adjustments. So, as unsexy as bookkeeping is, it’s the vitally essential process of

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2/20/11: The Coming Wave of Inflation – Profiting When the Levee Breaks

2/20/11: The Coming Wave of Inflation – Profiting When the Levee Breaks

Central banks around the world have been pumping “liquidity” into their respective economies since 2008. In the USA, the Fed has gone through two rounds of “Quantitative Easing” (QE1 and QE2) and has been talking about a third.  Meanwhile, the government is piling up debt at a record pace. What does it all mean?  And

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1/16/11: The Age of the Entrepreneur – Creating a Future and Not a Job with Ken McElroy

One of our favorite quotes comes from hockey legend Wayne Gretzky: “A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.” Of course, a statement like that carries even more weight because the person saying it is highly qualified to have an opinion worth

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12/26/10: Getting Started in Real Estate Investing…for the First, Second or Third Time!

12/26/10: Getting Started in Real Estate Investing…for the First, Second or Third Time!

Donald Trump is probably the most famous “real estate guy” who made it big, lost it all, then made it all back bigger and better than before.  What took him down you ask?  In his book, The Art of the Comeback, the Donald says it was complacency and The Tax Reform Act of 1986.   Remember

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