Tag: jason hartman
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Online Scams Follow Marijuana Legalization
With new opportunities come new schemes and scams, and a would be investor needs all the prudence and wisdom King Solomon advises to sort out the legitimate from the fraudulent. That’s especially important now, as the legalization of marijuana opens the door to a slew of investment opportunities, both real and fake. A recent CNN…
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5 Ways to Find Good Tenants
King Solomon’s ageless advice to combine prudence with wisdom makes sense for anyone making financial decisions today. And in the current hot rental market, the investor/landlord creating an income stream through rental properties is finding that a healthy dose of prudence applied to renting properties can head off costly problems later. That’s why landlords are…
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Take the Tour, Meet the Experts in Austin
One of King Solomon’s key pieces of advice for prosperous living was to seek knowledge from the wise and experienced – a recommendation that’s just as valid today. And this September, participants in Jason Hartman’s Austin Executive Property Tour will get a chance to do just that, as a team of local property experts and…
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Home Equity Isn’t Always Home Security
Even in King Solomon’s day, houses meant security, and also represent wisdom in the great King’s proverbs. But home ownership is more complicated today —and as a recent Washington Post story on the often-unscrupulous practice of tax lien investing demonstrates, even a home owned outright may not be so secure after all. According to the…
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Silver: More Precious Than Gold in the Metals Markets?
Gold was a measure of wealth even in King Solomon’s day, and many of his Proverbs use gold as a yardstick for the value of wisdom. Even now, gold has a powerful hold on the imagination and the financial world – but in today’s money markets, the power of gold may be eclipsed by the…
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Rising Rents Reflect the Reality of Inflation and Demand
The trick to raising rents is to get past the notion that you’re no better than the moneychangers Jesus threw out of the temple. Your rental unit is an asset you paid honest money to acquire and there is nothing wrong with charging an honest rate to the tenants dwelling within. And unfortunately (for them)…
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5 Investing Apps for Smartphones and Tablets
King Solomon never had a smartphone, but he’d most likely applaud the technology as an efficient way to make prudent financial moves. Though managing investments and financial transactions on mobile devices can be risky, a variety of new apps make it easy to conduct business related to your investments virtually around the clock, anywhere you…
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SS 34 – Patriots for Christ with Craig Bergman
[iframe style=”border:none” src=”http://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/2461140/height/100/width/480/thumbnail/no/theme/standard” height=”100″ width=”480″ scrolling=”no” allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen] Craig Bergman is Newt Gingrich”s former political director in Iowa and President of Patriots for Christ and No More Wimp Outs PAC. He”s out with a new documentary that sheds light on the certain damage Agenda 21 will wreck on our liberties while doing…
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3 Keys to Making Safe Mobile Transactions
King Solomon’s watchwords, prudence and wisdom, are just as relevant to today’s technology filled world as they were in the days of the great King. And as new devices make it easier to manage your money wherever you go, a little prudence and wisdom can prevent identity theft and account hacking when you’re shopping or…
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Home Security: Avoiding Landlord Woes
King Solomon’s often-quoted advice on financial management is solidly based on the idea of prudence and wisdom – two similar but not identical concepts that have to do with heading off trouble at the pass. For owners of income property, the issue of home security on residential property is one that can benefit from a…