I love being a property owner. But I don’t love paying property taxes. Alas, they’re unavoidable. However, you should always fight your property taxes if the government over inflates your assessed value. This happened to me and I wasn’t about to let the government screw me over. Last year, I scored a victory against tyranny […]
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One of the greatest benefits of full-time work is getting paid whether you work or not. I miss that. How awesome is it to paid when there is a snow day? How good does it feel when you’re out sick or injured for a week and the paycheck continues to roll in? When you’re sipping
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A long time ago, one of my tenants who drove a BMW SUV told me, “I need an extra day to pay rent in order to withdraw money from my trust fund. Can you wait?” I thought to myself, you knew today was move-in day when rent would be due, couldn’t you have planned ahead?
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Tuition hike for students is like a tax hike for the rich. Eventually, everybody wants to get their money. ben if you are a student or a lower-income person. In a stunning move to shore up a $535 million budget gap, the UC Regents in 2009 voted to raise student undergraduate tuition by 32 percent (to
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Wow! Donald Trump will be the 45th President of The United States. The polls were wrong. The political pundits were wrong. And I was wrong as well. We’re now going to experience a hammering in all stock markets around the world due to policy uncertainty. Hopefully the sell-off is very temporary like Brexit’s. The only thing
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Some people have told me they plan to retire abroad if Donald wins. Others have said they’ll just stop working so much if Hillary gets elected. Will you be doing anything differently if Hillary or Donald gets elected now that Donald is going to be the POTUS for the next four years? I’m curious to know whether
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Now that President Obama has won, I’d like for us to have a mature discussion on the investment and economic outlook for the next four years. Let’s also touch upon how we should act in public now that big government is here to stay. In order to create wealth, we must make reasonable assumptions about the future
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Consumer debt is bad. Please don’t accumulate credit card debt and other debt if you want to achieve financial freedom. During the depths of the financial crisis, one of the proposals I sent to the Obama administration was to institute spending curbs based on high school or college grade point averages. It didn’t matter whether
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Hear that? That is the sound of another self-righteous employed person complaining about the unemployed sucking up resources and driving the government deficit further into the red. Who cares employed people?? You guys aren’t the ones who are struggling to find a job in this economy! Several Truths About Being Unemployed 1) Few can live a
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Do you really think it takes a genius to be rich or run a country? The reality is, it doesn’t take a genius to do these things. Instead, it takes tenacity and grit. Let’s say you are 44 years old and over the past 10 years earned over $2.3 million in gross income. For someone who
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