Decisions that Lead to Financial Success
You are the composite of all decisions you have made in the past – the big ones, the small ones, the fun ones, the hard ones, the ones you made alone and the ones...
Category: getting it
Financial Lessons from the Movies – Secretariat
Through the ages, a lot of wisdom has been passed down generation to generation by story telling. Humans have gone from sitting around the campfire listening to the tribal elder relay fables to watching...
Five Fabulous Financial Moves
Life is full of decisions. As you come to them – you make them, the best you can, with what you know and have at the time. Some of them turn out to be...
US Government Plans to Create Potter’s Field
CNN is reporting that the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, HUD, FDIC, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, with their conservator, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) are cooking up a pilot program to to sell...
Real Estate Mistakes – Buying Before Construction
Real estate investment mistakes can be costly, and I almost made a big mistake and did make a whopper – from which I thankfully recovered. When buying real estate, most people know to write...
2012 Goals
This post was scheduled to publish on Thursday per our normal posting schedule. However since The Millionaire Corner posted a quote about our goals today, it seems fitting to publish now rather than tomorrow. ...
Newlyweds (after five years together)!
In 2009 CNN reported that research from the University of Denver indicated that over 70% of couples are living together prior to marriage. These statistics are probably no surprise to you. The number of...
American Farmland – an Alternative Investment!
Several days ago I did some research to learn a bit about alternative investments in farmland. For about five years institutional and accredited private investors have been putting money into funds that buy and...
Angie’s List – One More Idea I Wish I Had Pursued
Have you ever watched the news of some company’s superb success and thought to yourself – I could have done that! I had that same idea years ago, why didn’t I act on it?...
How Do You Measure Up Financially?
MSN Money has a nifty interactive chart that shows median income, net worth and a bunch of other things by age. It is built from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer finances (which is...
