You’ve found your first home, and it’s perfect – at least from what you can see. Though it looks great and is within your price range, there can be surprises lurking elsewhere in the home that can cost significant amounts of cash when you move in. To avoid these potential pitfalls, a home inspection needs to… Continue Reading
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Multiple Ways to Invest
Any young family knows the challenge of learning how to invest for the first time. Unless you go to business school, this topic is not addressed in school. Given the tendency of individualism in our society, it’s almost a given that parents fail to teach investing to their kids. I know that I am still learning how to properly invest for my family’s future. I’m no expert, but I have learned a lot in the past few years. Here are many places you can put your money to generate even more revenue.… Continue Reading
Are You Cut Out to be a Landlord?
I was talking with my brother the other day and the conversation moved towards real estate. My brother had a unique opportunity to buy his own house when he was in college. He lived in a fairly affordable area of town and spent the last two years and then two years in graduate school fixing up the house.… Continue Reading
Will Real Estate Get you Out of the Middle Class?
In this economy, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. The middle class is dwindling. If you are in the middle class, you may be able to secure a decent paying job and afford a few of the finer things in life, but this won’t allow you to acquire any significant measure of wealth. No matter how frugal you are or the number of side jobs you can handle, you won’t be able to work your way out of the middle class.… Continue Reading