Tag: financial education
Have Blog, Will Travel: Your Content Creation Questions Answered
Life is good, isn’t it? For me, I am getting close to my retirement from the Marine Corps. My wife and I have gotten our finances under control as we prepare for our dual retirement in 3-4 years. We are leveraging my military retirement, our real estate, our investments, and our businesses to create a…
Mortgage Zero: The Art of Paying Zero Out-of-Pocket Housing Cost
Stop paying so much for housing! I wish I could get this into your head with just this first sentence. However, life doesn’t work like this. We will have to go more in-depth on the reason why housing is keeping the middle-class very…. middle-class. Then we will go into how we can stop this trend…
Intro to R.E.I.T.s: Part 3 How to Invest
Welcome back to the world of REITs. In Part I, we learned what real estate investment trusts were. In Part II, we learned about the different sectors of REITs. Now it is time to put our money where our mouth is. Let’s invest in REITs. Because REITs trade on the stock market, you can invest…
Pay Off Debt or Start Investing?
What is the scariest movie that you have ever watched? Mine was the Grudge (2004). I ask this because I am about to ask you to do something that is even scarier than watching the movie you picked. And that is… to write down all your debt. Yikes. Before we get into the details, like…
Mo’ Dividends Mo’ Problems January 2021
Let’s see what dividends we were paid in January 2021. My goal is to get to $1 Million which would yield roughly $40,000 a year of dividend income. Get Your Free eBook: Follow us on our Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/kingmarine1775 Join our Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/231490384820780 Follow us on Pinterest at: Disclosure: I am not a…
Are Limiting Beliefs Keeping You from Greatness?
I meet amazing people every day in the Marine Corps. Their work ethic is above reproach. They consistently work from 6 am to 6 pm and think nothing of it. They accomplish all of their tasks on time and with no guidance. They are what we call “fire and forget.” I then ask them, every…
Content, Content, Content: How to Create a Never-Ending Stream of Content
“I don’t have anything to write about” or “Who is going to listen to me?” These are some of the limiting beliefs that stop many people from becoming content creators. While establishing yourself as a subject matter expert is one way to create an audience, there are other ways as well. Creating content is more…
Is Real Estate Wholesaling Right for You?
So the world of real estate interests you? You see all the big money and fast sales in real estate and you want a piece of the action, right? Real Estate is a huge world and there are countless ways to get involved. But what if you don’t have a lot of money to get…
My Retirement 4-50 Update #4
My retirement 4-50 plan is our goal to be work-optional by age 50. It consists of 4 retirement income blocks. Retirement 4-50 is based on cash flow. My goal is to have a total of $6,000 a month cash flowing from each block (total $24,000). The blocks are retirement income, investment income, rental income, and…
Build the Mindset of an Investor
Stock market euphoria is everywhere. You can’t lose. Money is falling from the sky. Any investment is a good investment. Wait….what? Yes, the stock market is in a huge bubble. Is this the end of the bull market run? No one knows. This bull market could last another 10 days or another 10 years. With…
Taxes 101: Understand the 3 Types of Income
Uncle Sam wants his cut. Part of being a functioning member of society is paying our tax bills. Taxes are very important to the operation of a successful nation. That being said, we still want to ensure we legally pay the least amount of taxes that are required. Lowering our tax bills will require financial…
How to Create “Luck” with Money
Have you ever noticed how some people are always lucky? Some people always seem to earn a work bonus, win in Las Vegas, or get a scratch-off victory. But we are talking about a different kind of luck. Going even bigger, some people also consider movie stars, YouTube artists, and big-time bloggers as lucky. But…
5 Takeaways from “Growing Wealth in Self-Storage”
“Growing Wealth in Self-Storage” by AJ Osbourne is a how-to guide to make it big using self-storage as your wealth generator. Although it will take some money to get started, self-storage is a great way to grow your wealth. The difference between self-storage and most real estate investments is that self-storage is a business. The…
Establish Your Business Credit NOW
How’s your credit score doing today? Are you proud of it? I know that you have probably spent many hours trying to increase your score, reviewing strategies, and trying to correctly navigate the credit world. What if I told you that now you should do the same for your business credit? “But Josh, I don’t…
The Pitfalls of Owning a House, and How to Prevent Them
Buying your first home is one of the most exciting and scary experiences of your life. I know that I was scared crap-less. It requires a lot of responsibility to sign a 30-year mortgage. As much as we try to focus positively on the future, we always tend to think about what could go wrong. …
How to Build Passive Income from Royalties
“Passive Income” are the most important words in our financial vocabulary. These words help us separate ourselves from the act of making money. However, it takes hard work to build that initial product that will in-turn create passive income for us. I like to separate our passive income journey into four categories: Retirement (pension, TSP,…
Intro to R.E.I.T.s: Part 2 REIT Sectors
Real Estate Investment Trusts come in all flavors. Knowing the REIT sectors that you are investing in will have an impact on your portfolio based on different business cycles. In layman’s terms, real estate sectors perform differently based on what is happening in the economy. This is part 2 of our Introduction to REIT series.…
How We Built 13 Streams of Income
Relying solely on earned income is risky. In layman’s terms; living solely off the money from your job can be dangerous. It is risky because one stream of income can dry up very quickly, especially in a recession or downturn. During a recession, companies start to lose profits. Because of these losses, the companies will…
Living a Middle-Class Life is Stressful
Stress is the silent killer. Looking back now, I realize how much stress I endured throughout my 22-year career in the military. Now, that I am almost completely stress-free, I can genuinely identify the stress in my past and what created it. Trying to live a middle-class life was my biggest stressor. Many times we…
8 Reason to Start a Micro Business
Starting a business is a big deal. So big in fact that most people are too intimidated to even try. But not every business has to set the world on fire. It just needs to help YOU achieve F.I.R.E. There are many reasons to start a small business. In this case, I will focus on…
