Tag: income property investing
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Home Owners Score on the Big Banks
The Bible story of David and Goliath never fails to capture our imaginations. We love what it says about the little guy winning the day against a seemingly overpowering foe. Now, in the seemingly never-ending string of lawsuits against the nation’s big banks for fraud and manipulation, a pair of cases filed by home owners…
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Insurance Companies Invest Big in Real Estate
The Bible is full of stories about the evils of hypocrisy, and there are no shortages of examples in the modern world as well. Case in point: the nation’s major insurance companies, which persuade consumers that the policies they buy are a valuable investment. But while the’re doing that, they’re opting to put those policy…
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Financial Independence Doesn’t Start Here
You can’t sleep. Before you know it, you’re sprawled on the couch in front of the television, clicking randomly through the channels. Say, who’s that guy on a yacht surrounded by bikini-clad babes suggesting I come to his real estate seminar? Well, heck, why not? It worked for him! Your fingers begin to twitch and…
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JP Morgan Chase Gets Caught Lying — Again
The Proverbs of King Solomon are full of warnings about consorting with the sinful: those who lie, cheat and harm other people. And those principles still hold today as JP Morgan Chase, one of the biggest US banks, confesses to knowingly writing bad loans for government housing agencies and lying about them for over a…
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Mortgage Troubles Reach Pre-Crash Levels
In the Proverbs of King Solomon, houses represent wisdom and prosperity. And, as we’ve seen in these current economic conditions, the state of housing and jobs today are good indicators of stability and security, too. For many housing market observers, recent statistics on foreclosure and mortgage delinquency rates seem to suggest a brighter future for…
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Does Credit Monitoring Protect Data?
Throughout his Proverbs, King Solomon emphasizes the value of a good reputation for a prosperous, blessed life. But what if your reputation had been hijacked by hackers half a world away – and your credit and reputation were ruined by someone using your identity? In an age of anxiety about Identity theft and the safety…
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Does Identity Theft Insurance Really Work?
One of King Solomon’s most important pieces of advice for living a prosperous life is to maintain a good reputation that isn’t sullied by liars and cheats. Today, with a constant stream of news about identity theft and data hacking in cases like the Target data hijacking and the government’s domestic surveillance activities, anxiety about…
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More Tapering’s On the Way: Good News for Investors?
King Solomon’s proverbs tell us again and again that the way to a prosperous life is through wisdom and hard work. “The slothful hand hath wrought poverty: but the hand of the industrious getteth riches,” he writes in Proverbs 10:4. Today, industriousness in the form of better employment numbers and an uptick in the housing…
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Wisdom From the Wild Can Inspire Investors
The natural world is full of lessons for wise and prosperous living, as King Solomon shows us again and again in proverbs such as Proverbs 6:6: “Go to the ant, o sluggard, and consider her ways, and learn wisdom.” That’s true even in today’s financial world, where lessons learned from facing the challenges of the…
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Tax Breaks for Investors Take a Hit This Year
Investing with the prudence and wisdom King Solomon advises means keeping up with all the financial issues that affect your investing career. It’s no secret that real estate invesetment benefits from a generous list of tax credits and deductions that property owners can claim every year, But as lawmakers tinker with tax reform, some of…