In the proverbs of Solomon as well as in many other literary works, virtues such as wisdom and justice are personified as women. “Wisdom hath built herself a house,” says the great King in Proverbs...
King Solomon
The Courts: Last Word In Foreclosures?
In many of the Proverbs of King Solomon, a house stands for many things: prosperity, stability and even qualities such as wisdom, or prudence. For Solomon, a house represents stability prosperity...
Lying Tongues and Wicket Plots: Mortgage Fraud Returns
Honesty and fair dealing are essential to prosperous living – and investing. For the Bible’ King Solomon, the lying and scheming of the wicked are an abomination and des3erve punishment. Among the...
Wealth Has Its Privileges – and Higher Taxes
Although Solomon was a monarch of great wealth and power, and by Biblical accounts, one of the greatest of the ancient Israelite kings, his sayings in the Book of Proverbs suggest that he viewed the...
The Shadow Inventory and Housing Recovery
Among the principles for prosperous living stated by King Solomon in his Book of Proverbs is patience: “A faithful man shall be much praised, but he that maketh hast to be rich, shall not be...
Low Mortgage Interest: Sustenance for the Future?
Among the key precepts of King Solomon’s guidelines for success as revealed by his sayings in the Book of Proverbs, prudence and planning rank with wisdom as the essentials for living a prosperous...
Prudent Investing: Managing a Mortgage
King Solomon was revered for his wisdom, but the King also valued prudence – acting cautiously and with wisdom. “Get wisdom; get prudence. Forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth,” he...
Tax Lien Sales: A Prudent Avenue for Investing?
King Solomon’s Proverbs speak again and again of the need to act with both wisdom and prudence. “”If thou shalt call for wisdom, and incline thy heart to prudence… though shalt understand the fear...
Bulk Home Sales: Equal Opportunities
Although King Solomon ruled his kingdom as an absolute monarch, there are indications that he was a believer in the equitable division of things. When two women came to him with a baby, each...
Land and Improvement: Speculation Versus Investment
Land is a primary asset, part of many, though not all, income property purchases. But land and the structures on that land are often not the same. King Solomon of Old Testament fame understood the...