Rents have been going up aggressively since 2020. And it always amazes me how much some people are willing to spend on rent. This article will discuss who spends over $100,000 a year on rent. I’ve been a landlord of multiple properties in San Francisco since 2005. Once rent hit the $2,000 a month mark […]
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Pop the champagne! I recently celebrated my 18-year anniversary of being a landlord. There have been plenty of headaches along the way, but I realized everything is fixable with time, money, and compromise. To celebrate, let me teach you how to minimize tenant vacancy for maximum rental income. The one thing I’m very proud of
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Reddit recently hosted an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session with Hardeep Walia, Founder and CEO of Motif Investing, and former SEC Chairman (1993-2001) and Motif Investing Board Member, Arthur Levitt. There were some pretty interesting exchanges that I thought were worth highlighting for anybody who uses Motif Investing and who is interested in investing as a whole.
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Note: All proceeds after expenses goes to a charity focused on keeping kids off the streets and in the classrooms. Thanks for your support! After six years of writing over 1,000 personal finance articles, I’ve compiled 35 of the best Financial Samurai articles into one eBook to help you achieve financial independence sooner, rather than
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A stock market correction is an inevitability. You just don’t know when it will happen exactly. Technically, a stock market correction means a decline of 10% or more from the peak. A bear market is when the stock market declines by more than 20%. A stock market correction occured in 2020, 2022, and again in
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Do you know what one of the first things an employer does before interviewing a prospective employee? They Google your name to learn all about you. Therefore, to strengthen your brand, you need to have a web presence. Sites like LinkedIn and Facebook flourish because people have decided to provide these sites massive amounts of content for free. Unlike Financial
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The following is a guest post by Colleen Kong-Savage, a graphic artist in New York City. She writes and illustrates at Konga Line: Children Are Beastly. Let’s discuss should the man pick up the tab on a date. I am on the dating scene again after sadly breaking up with my boyfriend of two years. But
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Although Social Security is underfunded by ~22%, I believe Social Security will make us all millionaires in retirement. Let me explain, especially with the massive cost-of-living adjustment for 2022. When I was driving home from San Mateo one day I took a wrong turn and ended up at Hillsdale Mall. There I saw an amazing
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Try to be an accredited investor. Once you are, you can invest more easily in private companies. Do you know what the market capitalization was of Microsoft when they went public on March 13, 1986? A mere $500 million (~$1 billion in today’s dollars). If you had bought just 100 shares of Microsoft at the $21 offering
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Do you want downside investment protection? We could be in another financial bubble. But nobody really knows when a correction will take place. Therefore, may I suggest looking into structured notes. This article will give you an example of an equity structured note that provides downside investment protection, while also offering upside potential as well.
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