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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EQ (emotional intelligence) is more important than IQ. I don’t care how smart you are, if you are a weird and selfish prick, you won’t get as far as someone who is less smart, but gets along with everybody. In a previous post, I discussed how I was able to stay at a $2,000/night hotel for
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Negotiating using the BATNA technique is huge for saving you money or making you more money. Last year, after playing an afternoon tennis match at my club, I decided to switch on my Uber driver app to try and catch a fare heading home. Making money by going in a direction I planned to go
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Everything is a race against time. A dream home is what we all dream of. A dream home is like a forever home to live a great life. Every time I travel for business, one of my favorite activities is to attend a broker’s tour to get a feel for the local real estate market. The activity
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Consider increasing passive income through leverage and arbitrage. I did just that in 2014 when I bought a new home just five miles west of where I used to live in San Francisco. I took on a new mortgage to buy this home and I ended up renting out my previous home for $7,500 –
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Let’s look at some investment strategies for retirement baed on modern portfolio theory. As a retiree, you are focused more on capital preservation since you can’t or don’t want to go back to work. After publishing my post, The Best Asset Allocation Of Stocks And Bonds By Age, I decided to do a comparison of what
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Today, driving for Uber is not great. The pay is too low and the customers are not great. This post highlights what it was like driving for Uber back in 2015-2016, when it was all the side-hustle range. However, if you don’t currently have a job, or want to optimize your passive income, then driving
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We’ve discussed what it takes to be in the top 1% in net worth by age. Let’s discuss how to live like the top one percent without being rich. Unfortunately, the very definition of top 1% means that 99% of us won’t get there. But once we have a goal, we do infinitely better with our
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During times of uncertainty, make sure you are on top of your cash. Cash management is really about stress management. The more cash you have and the better you know your cash flow, the less stressed you will be. Buying anything close to the top of the market is risky. For stocks purchased in 2000, it
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Unfortunately, RealtyShares is no longer accepting new investors on their platform. It is no longer an operating platform. RealtyShares was one of the fastest growing and largest platforms. But they grew too quickly as the analyzed their deals too hastily. RealtyShares Alternatives I suggest taking a look at Fundrise, the pioneer in eREITs and a platform
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