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
Why You Should Get an Income Tax Refund
Income tax time is approaching. Around this time of year the internet is buzzing with articles and blog posts on why getting an income tax refund is a bad decision. I was officially self-employed during the last three months of 2013. This year my taxes are going to be a bit different. I’ve already began calculating my best and worst case scenario for my income
5 Online Passive Income Ideas
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
Link Love 1/10/13
I hope you all had a great week and have an even better weekend. This was actually a pretty good week for me. I feel like I got a lot accomplished this week for change. Hopefully I can keep this pace the rest of the year. Here are some posts I enjoyed from the week: Lance @ Money Life & More just posted a monstrous
5 Offline Passive Income Ideas
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
Growth Investing vs. Value Investing: Which is Better?
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
Link Love 1/3/14
I love the holidays but I’m kind of glad all of the madness is over. I’ve probably been to at least ten family dinners in the last two weeks. I love seeing my family and all, but I’m also ready for things to start getting back to normal. As the girls and I begin to settle back into our routines we’ve been hit with yet
How to Make a Plan of Attack for Your Goals
Happy New Year!! I hope 2013 was an awesome year for year and hopefully 2014 will be even better. In the spirit of the New Year I wanted to talk about you achieving your goals. Goals are so powerful – if you set them right, make a plan to achieve them, and whole heartedly go for it – you can do anything that you want.
Where Would You Invest $5,000?
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
Link Love 12/27/2013
I hope you all had an amazing Holiday. I’ve spent the last week spending time with my family and spent all day yesterday cleaning up messes! My girls got way too many toys and now I’m trying to figure out where to put them. I’m back to work today though and have a lot of catching up to do! My girls are at their Dad’s