Living for today - Planning for Tomorrow
A couple weeks ago my aunt, who I’m very close with, went to California to visit with a family member. She called me during her trip excited about all of the information she was learning about choosing individual stocks. The family member that she visited is retired and buys and sells individual stocks as a hobby. And, apparently she does pretty well. My aunt got
If you’ve ever thought of purchasing a foreclosed home in your area then you know that you have to jump through hoops to find free listings. When I first took an interest in real estate I thought foreclosed homes would be my ticket to making money. The problem though, was that every time I performed an internet search for foreclosed homes in my area I
Do you want to make money online? Do you want it to be passive income? If you said yes, you’re in luck. We’ve already went over five offline passive income ideas but there are also quite a few ways that you can earn passive income online. However, I cannot stress enough that earning online doesn’t start out passively. It takes a lot of initial work
Passive income. Desired by everyone, achieved by few. When I first started blogging I had this preconceived notion that what I was doing was going to eventually be a form of passive income. Boy was I wrong! Since then I have performed tons of research on ways to actually generate passive income. What I discovered is that to earn significant passive income you need to
After reading The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing by Jason Kelly I’ve concluded that the two main types of investing are value investing and growth investing. While both of these investment strategies are different they can both work well. Growth investors purchase stocks while the companies are experiencing exponential growth. Value investors also choose stocks they hope to rise, but they look for
I hope you all had a fantastic weekend and an amazing Christmas. I pretty much took the whole week off which was amazing but means that I have a lot to catch up on! One of my biggest goals for 2014 is to get started investing in the stock market. I just recently finished up Jason Kelly’s The Neatest Little Guide to Stock Market Investing
Do you have an extra $1,000 that you want to invest but don’t know where to stash it? If you’re like me you’ve never had a company 401k plan to invest in. That means when it comes to investing you have to do some research and pick the options that best suit your needs. I’ll be the first one to admit: getting started with investing
Certificates of deposits, better known as CD’s, are an investment option that I’m pretty familiar with. Over the last several years I’ve helped my Grandma keep track of her finances and pitched in to help with the financial management of her businesses as well. She tells me what she wants done and I execute. And, she is a HUGE fan of CD’s. But why? Certificate
I’ve always loved (and was kind of addicted to) the HGTV shows about flipping houses. I was also always amazed about the insane amount of money some of these small homes cost and were then sold for. I was talking to a friend the other day and explaining to him my fascination with real estate and how little houses cost around here. He lived in
Last week I was invited to attend a financial event at the local baseball stadium. A friend of mine has been a client of a major investment/insurance company for years and was encouraged to bring a couple friends to this small event. (There were about 70 people total) I’m normally not very interested to attend speaking engagements like this but because it was at the
