If you are considering selling your rental home, this post shares why I sold my rental home in 2017. Real estate is my favorite asset class to build wealth, and my rental home was a key part of my passive income portfolio. However, I had to sell to simplify life. At the time, I was […]
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Let’s take a look at what a real estate crowdfunding loss looks like. When you invest in real estate crowdfunding, you have to expect there will be losses given there are no guarantees. I recently published The Worst Landlord Horror Story Ever, a story about a reader who bought a Las Vegas residential property several years
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Lifestyle deflation is what happens when you are overly frugal. Frugality is often praised as a key element to achieving financial independence. Frugality is one of the hallmarks of the FIRE movement I help pioneer in 2009. However, it’s easy to take frugality too far. I’m frugal to a fault. For 13 years after college,
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Everybody needs to have a blog. Successful personal finance bloggers will agree. I was eating dinner at my local Indian joint when a late 20s couple sat at the table right next to me. The guy, a new pharmacy graduate from UCSF was with a female pharmacy student. He was buttering her up with praise about how
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With the uptick in racist incidences in America during and after the pandemic, I wanted to share on racist incident I well never forget back in Virginia (VA). Let us stand up to racism every day and share our experiences. The more we can share, the more people can understand. And the more we understand
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Once upon a time, I was 28 and dumb. But I was never as dumb as author James Damore who wrote a 3,200 word manifesto saying the reason why women and some minorities aren’t more represented at his firm is due to biological differences. True or false, that’s offensive to the women and minorities who made it to Google. Overall, Google’s workforce is 69%
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To eliminate financial distortion, make sure I’m within my risk tolerance band, and push myself to continuously reinvest cash flow in order to survive permanent unemployment, every quarter I’ll be reviewing my investments. I’ve found that after even just a couple months, if I don’t write things down, I simply cannot remember how much and what I invested in. For the past
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How many times have you or someone you know said, “I hate my job. I wish I was doing something else instead,“? Probably a lot. But change is hard. Taking the first step towards change can be the hardest and a lot of people just don’t know where to begin even if they’re miserable. If
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I’ve heard of terrible landlord stories, However, this is the worst landlord horror story you will ever hear. I’ve a landlord since 2005. In general, it’s been a worthwhile experience because rents and real estate prices have appreciated significantly since. Real estate is my favorite asset class to build wealth. You get to buy a
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Senior workers outnumber teenage works for the first time ever. This is interesting because the pandemic has also created more job quits than any time in history. Bloomberg highlighted an interesting chart stating that for the first time ever, working seniors outnumber teens in the labor force. Currently 6.6 million people over the age of
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