Reading the Tea Leaves
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It’s not difficult to predict the future if you know where to look. Soothsayers used to make predictions by reading tealeaves, which isn’t a terribly effective method for real…
Time is Ticking
Concerning the economy, there’s a general sense that we’re still spinning our wheels after six years recovering. Growth has been anemic at best, punctuated with occasional quarterly contractions, and this sense of malaise has compelled…
Come With Me: How to Pick Your Real Estate Agent and Property Manager
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This week’s show is the third in a series on real estate investing. First, we discussed how to prepare your finances for real estate investing. Next, we discussed various approaches to real estate investing, plus…
Come With Me: Building a TEAM
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I’ve been investing in real estate for so long that most of the process is second nature to me. When I aired Come With Me parts I and II last week, I didn’t stop to…
Come With Me
This week’s show picked up where last week’s left off. We covered the basics of real estate investing, discussed the different routes to acquiring rental properties, and established criteria for determining whether your finances are…
Ready, Set, Invest!
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Contrary to what you may have heard, investing should not be sexy. Fast-paced, high-risk, get-rich-quick trading is not investing—it’s gambling. Good investors should be prudent, patient, and bored to death, and the investing instrument most…
Demographics in America: The Millennial Wave to Come
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I come across a lot of statistics in my day-to-day readings, and the statistic most pertinent to today’s show is this: The percentage of 18-34 year olds living with their parents is 30%. This…
Demographics in America: Tsunami
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It is an under-appreciated truism that all of history has been leading up to the present. While we can shape our futures, we do so with clay inherited from past generations. Like an earthquake beneath…