Tag: jason hartman
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The Shadow Clouds Housing Recovery
King Solomon had harsh words for the deceitful and the dishonest. Among the six things the Lord hates, the king lists a lying tongue and a heart that deviseth wicked plots (Proverbs 6: 16-19). Those words might well describe the behavior of leading mortgage lenders during and after the housing collapse of a few years…
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House Names Can Make or Break a Sale
As readers of King Solomon’s proverbs know, several verses refer to houses as more than just structures. In these verses, a house is a metaphor for stability and prosperity – and wisdom. But the King isn’t alone in recognizing that a house is more than just a physical construction – many intangible factors combine in…
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The Housing Recovery: Behind the Scenes
An often quoted line from Ecclesiastes reminds us that there is a time and a season for everything – words of wisdom that echo King Solomon’s guiding principle of acting with prudence to ensure prosperity. While housing industry watchers say that low mortgage rates and rising home prices indicate that the housing recovery’s time has…
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No Closing Cost Mortgages: Long Term Benefits?
King Solomon’s words on wisdom and the virtues of living prudently also emphasize the importance of looking not just to immediate gain, but also toward long-term benefits. “Substance got in haste shall be diminished,” he says in Proverbs 13:11, and these principles can equally be applied to today’s world of investments and mortgage lending. Rocked…
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A Time for Landlords: Today’s Hot Rental Market
As Ecclesiastes 3.2 and related verses tell us, there’s a time and a purpose for everything under heaven. Investors know this all too well – repeated cycles of ups and downs that sometimes work to their advantage, sometimes not. With housing industry professionals predicting a contused steady rise in rents through this year and beyond,…
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Wise Investors Think Corporate (housing)
Mobile home parks. Self-storage lots. Residential housing. Commercial housing. These are just some of the ways investors can approach income property investing. But there’s one strategy we haven’t spent much time discussing and, truth be told, it’s a pretty big industry, to the tune of about $2.5 billion annually in gross rents. Popularly referred to…
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New Home Construction: Slowing the Housing Recovery?
As the wise King Solomon knew, building homes and other dwellings connotes prosperity and stability. “Wisdom hath build herself a house, she hath hewn her out seven pillars” he says in Proverbs 9:1, and the construction of his great temple is lavishly detailed in the Book of Kings. In both Solomon’s day and our own,…
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Investing Abroad: Opportunities Bring Challenges
King Solomon was no stranger to investing outside the boundaries of his kingdom. The Books of Kings and Ecclesiastes tell us that he sought materials for his great temple from many neighboring kingdoms and countries, and he entertained rulers of these lands in royal style, building connections through investment, trade and marriage. Foreign investment has…
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Do Rising Home Prices Mean Trouble?
Although King Solomon spoke frequently of the wisdom for which he’s best known, the wise king also had much to say about wealth, prosperity and the prudent management of money and other assets – observations that are equally relevant today. In Proverbs 13: 11, the monarch says, “Substance got in haste shall be diminished, but…
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The Housing Bubble Returneth – Maybe
More than anything else, King Solomon was known for wisdom, and part of being wise is developing a sense of history. The best predictor of what’s going to happen next is to look at what’s happened before. Despite the angst associated with the housing boom, bubble, and burst cycle in the mid-2000s, rest assured it…