A cash-out mortgage refinance lets you borrow more than you currently owe and keep the difference as cash. It’s one way to unlock the equity in your house. However, doing a cash-out refinance to buy stocks is not a good idea. You could lose a lot of money in a bear market. Instead of doing […]
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The coronavirus-induced stock market meltdown created a lot of anxiety and opportunity. Let’s look at the benefits! I originally wrote this post on February 28, 2020 when the lockdowns first began. Clearly, the S&P 500 and real estate have done well since. The lesson is to keep investing for the long term. Dollar-cost average during
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Investing you tax refund instead of spending it is recommended. If you want to achieve financial freedom, it’s not enough to aggressively save most of your income. You must also wisely invest as well. In the article, “How To Get Over Your Fear Of Investing” I mention how your risk tolerance decreases the more capital
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The following is a guest post from Financial Samurai reader, Jeremy Johnson about earning 10% returns in passive income with P2P lending. Jeremy was kind enough to help me out with a random WordPress question issue when I first started back in 2009. Peer to peer lending is one of the most simple and effective
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A lot of you have expressed interest investing in real estate over the years as part of a diversified investment portfolio strategy. However, some of you don’t have the 20%-30% downpayment to get started in rental property investing. Therefore, I’d like to explore the real estate crowdsourcing industry with Fundrise. With Fundrise, you can invest in
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Building a blogging business and making money from blogging is one of the most attractive opportunities in the new decade. Buying blogs makes a lot of sense post pandemic. Believe it or not, buying blogs and selling blogs can make you a good amount of money! A blog can be a very lucrative business, especially
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In The United States, an accredited investor is someone who has a net worth of at least one million dollars, excluding the value of their primary residence, or has income of at least $200,000 a year for the last two years or $300,000 together with a spouse, with the expectation to make at least as
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High portfolio turnover may b more costly than high mutual fund fees. With high portfolio turnover, you’ve got more taxes to pay. Further, you might completely mis-time your buying and selling. Everybody should understand by now that high mutual fund fees drag performance down over time. Given the large majority of active fund managers underperform
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The Yin Yang Investor Mindset post talks about looking for opposite investment opportunities whenever one asset class is roaring. I used the sell-off in bonds as an example of finally beginning to build a meaningful muni bond portfolio to earn double taxation free income. Now I’d like to highlight more reasons why folks who have a
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It’s harder to get rich off stocks than it is to get rich off real estate. The main reason why is due to the absolute amount of money you need to risk to get rich in stocks. Even if your $5,000 stock investment goes up 50%, that’s only $2,500. But if your $500,000 rental property
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