Tag: Real Estate
The 100-Year Mortgage is Coming: How to Position Your Family to Avoid It
There are no more beautiful words than “generational wealth.” We should all strive to leave our families in better positions than when we first built them. One of the main ways to create and maintain generational wealth is through owning your primary residence. Your kids and grandkids can significantly benefit from the compounding effect of…
Tired of Being Broke, Behind, and Bullied? It’s Time to Become a Capitalist
I remember when I first made $100,000 in a year. I believed all my financial problems would disappear after hitting that magical number. However, in reality, my financial issues were worse than ever. I had $70,000+ in credit card and automobile debt, and I couldn’t take my family out to eat without using my credit…
Building Generational Wealth: Via Real Estate
Everyone knows real estate is a powerful way to build generational wealth. Not everyone knows exactly how to do it. Real estate investing can be more difficult yet simpler than you can imagine. One thing is clear: the more responsibility we take on as parents, the further ahead our kids will start. Let me explain.…
The Pros & Cons of Homeownership 1: Wealth Creation
There has never been a more challenging time to purchase a home than in 2023. Interest rates are soaring, and home prices haven’t decreased to reduce the monthly payments. Therefore, first-time home buyers need more money for a down payment and higher incomes for bigger mortgage payments. The burning question is if buying and owning…
How to Make $100 a Month in Passive Income
Passive income is very elusive in that it does not start very passively. You must contribute a certain amount of work to build a passive income stream. However, once you get the hang of it, you can create as many income streams as you can maintain. Passive income is a mindset more than an amount…
Passive Income: How Do You Spend Your Free Time?
The main difference between the rich and the poor is how they spend their time. How do you spend your free time? Feel free to answer honestly to yourself. Once I learned this golden rule, my income, and net worth doubled, tripled, and even quadrupled in a couple of years. If you want to create…
Become Middle-Class PLUS: Insert Growth Multipliers into Your Life
Most people fear becoming rich. Somewhere along the lines, they adopted a belief that rich people are bad; therefore, they avoid the path to wealth. However, it’s still not wrong to make a little more money. The problem is that most people cannot fathom earning income outside of a 9-5 job. Most times, people’s jobs…
Create Money, Spend Money, Grow Money: How to Break Your Scarcity Mindset
Growing up, I always associated money with fear. There was a fear of using money and becoming rich. When poor people hate the rich, they limit themselves from becoming rich. How can you become something you loathe? I was taught to dream small. For example, paying your bills each month was a significant accomplishment. Start…
Living in 1,000 Square Feet as a Family of Four
When did we become so selfish here in America? We want our small families to live in a 3,000-square-foot home on three acres. Unfortunately, we need to be alone, and this is destroying our finances. Living in these monstrous homes as a single family simply costs too much money. The need to be individuals. Families…
The True Value of Owning a Home
Sometimes it takes work to distinguish between value and price. In my last article, I discussed the true costs of owning a home. However, you can deal with the costs if you understand the value. Owning a home is difficult but can be an essential investment in the long run. Inflation protection. The best reason…
5 Signs That Your City is Too Expensive For You?
We all want to live a life of luxury, right? We don’t turn on the television (or YouTube) to watch people struggling in poverty. No, we want to envision ourselves walking down Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills with bags full of expensive clothes. We cruise the strip in our luxury two-door convertible coupe. How exciting.…
The Perfect Life: Homesteading & Dividends
Do you ever dream of getting as far away from the city as possible? I think about this every day on my commute to work. Society is becoming more dangerous and less intelligent, so it is wise to devise an escape plan. But how can you escape while living within 20 miles of a Walmart?…
Watch Your A.R.M.s: Should You Get an Adjustable Rate Mortgage?
When times are tough, thinking outside the box is a good idea. In most cases, we all want a standard fixed-rate 30-Year mortgage. I talked about new options in “40-Year Interest-Only Mortgage,” which proved a bad idea. But do we have more choices with interest rates crossing 7% on new mortgages? Our old enemy is…
Financial Independence through Real Estate 4
The real estate market is currently in turmoil as mortgage rates hit over 7%. The times of fast, cheap money are gone, at least for the time being. But real estate is always an excellent investment if you have the right mindset. Real estate is a tricky topic to discuss because many people don’t have…
Financial Independence through Real Estate 3
We have come a long way in our real estate knowledge. Hopefully, over the last 1.5 years, we have begun to formulate a plan to buy and exploit our advantages in real estate. This is book three in Signature Series 3. The other two books are “How We Plan to Retire on Dividends 3” and…
Intro to REITs V: Fundrise vs. REIT Stocks
Having a backup is necessary if we want to prevent disaster. This mindset also applies to our investments in the stock market. We like to diversify our stock portfolio to ensure we hedge against possible downturns. However, it is also a great idea to diversify our portfolio to assets that are not on the stock…
Maximum Leverage 2: Buy Homes with Nothing Out-Of-Pocket
We are back to buy even more homes with no money down. In Maximum Leverage 1, we covered how to use different types of loans to prevent paying a down payment. However, what if paying a down payment cannot be avoided? How can we leverage other’s people money (OPM) or our equity to pay zero…
Use Real Estate as Your Wealth Generator
Time to get rich! If you have read any of my work before, you may have seen me say that real estate is the best wealth generator for the average middle-class person. Today I will explore this statement and more to give you an idea of the power of real estate. What is a wealth…
Real Estate Investing 102: Unlimited Opportunities when Owning Properties
In Real Estate Investing 101 we went over how to get involved in the world of real estate. Real estate is a large wealth generator, maybe the biggest wealth creation vehicle out there. It is important that anyone seeking financial freedom is involved in some form of real estate. Today we want to take a…
Will You Make A Good Landlord?
The number one reason I hear for not investing in rental properties is becoming a landlord. So many people have a fear of being a landlord. I personally don’t know where this comes from, but it has a lot to do with an individual’s personality. Real estate is the most convenient way to make a…
