If you want to get rich, it’s probably wise to buy real estate as young as you can. Inflation is too powerful of a force to combat. The earlier you buy real estate, the more you can let your returns compound. In addition, buying real estate keeps you disciplined as a forced savings mechanism as […]
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The college admissions scandal that involved rich parents buying their kids way into various schools is a shock. It was dubbed Operation Varsity Blues. However, there is a legal way to profit from the college admissions scandal as well. A good investor always looks for opportunity no matter the circumstance. If you can identify and
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As a credit card user, it’s also good to explore the benefits of debit cards. Here are some of the benefits of debit cards over cash and credit cards. I have mainly used credit cards since college. If you are the same, then this post will look at ways in which we can use both
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Are you wondering how to get your spouse to go back to work after having a baby? I am since having our second child. Ever since my son was born, I’ve felt increased financial pressure to provide. It didn’t matter how much I had in the bank or how much our net worth had grown
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In general, I’m a fan of paying off your mortgage, no matter the situation. However, paying off your mortgage is a bad move whenever the yield curve is inverted. Paying off your mortgage is a suboptimal decision when you have a negative real mortgage interest rate as well. I’ll use a case study to explain
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Plan for retirement so you can live well when you no longer can or desire to work. This post will show you how to plan for that inevitable day. The main reason why I’ve gotten more conservative with my investments is not because valuation for the S&P 500 is near an all-time high and earnings
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Travel hacking is one way to save money on travel. This post is part of a travel hack rarely discussed. It sets up the stage and provides some insights into more extravagant spending. We’ll also explore whether more luxurious living is really worth the price. When I got to the 4th floor of my hotel
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March 12, 2019 is a day I’ll never forget. Not only did the college admissions bribing scandal break that morning, we found out our boy got waitlisted by two preschools. Waitlisted is really just a euphemism for rejected. The first preschool was a Mandarin immersion preschool I’ll call PooPoo about 20-25 minutes away. We had
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Thanks to the fantastic work by the Department Of Justice and the FBI we have learned the average bribe it takes to buy your kid’s way into an elite private university is between $250,000 – $400,000. Although, some bribe amounts went as high as $6 million. The 10-month-long investigation, code-named “Operation Varsity Blues,” uncovered large
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If you’re anything like me, you’re constantly thinking about good small business venture ideas to make money. Through either addressing an unmet need or making something better or inventing the next Facebook, you could be deriving a nice side-income outside your routine day job and have an eventual payday down the road when you want
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