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income property investing: Investment Properties Best Bought Without Emotion - 04/20/11 11:40 AM
According to a recent study on investor timing when it comes to buying and selling assets, we suggest you open a can of Mr. Spock on your strategy. Remember Mr. Spock? The half-human, half-vulcan first officer aboard the original Star Trek television series starring that guy in the Priceline ads before he became a caricature and national treasure? According to the New York Times, Philip Z. Maymin, of the Polytechnic Institute of New York University, studied call records at an investment boutique over the course of 17 years.
His finding was that, left to their own devices, most investors can pinpoint … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Unemployment Predictions for 2011 and What They Mean for Real Estate Investors - 03/08/11 04:35 PM
Employment is one of the fundamental factors of economic growth that represent the most frequently used yardstick for measuring recoveries. In discussion of employment, there are two distinctly different categories of unemployment that must be understood. The first is the ‘narrow’ definition that compares the people who are unemployed and looking for work against the total labor force who is employed or looking. The alternative or ‘broad’ definition includes discouraged workers who have stopped looking for work and incorporates the number of people who are working part time, but would like to be employed full time.
Some strange nuances can influence … (1 comments)
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income property investing: Tracking Inflation in the Coming Year - Important for Real Estate Investors - 02/09/11 12:22 PM
The general price level in 2010 relative to 2009 shows average price levels that are nearly flat. The reason for this trend is significant commodity price increases in 2007 and 2008 that collapsed after the global financial crisis. Much of the reason for the price volatility in commodities is leveraged buying and selling through hedge funds that drove prices up during the bubble and precipitated a price crash after the bubble collapsed as many entities were simultaneously deleveraging their positions. To demonstrate this phenomenon, we have graphed the Consumer Price Index for Urban residents (CPI-U), Producer Price Index for Finished Goods … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Phoenix, AZ - 19.4% Return On Investment Property for 2011 - 02/07/11 02:34 PM
Market values in Phoenix are currently at approximately the same level as in the year 2000. The market area experienced a tremendous run-up during the real estate bubble and a spectacular during the financial crisis. During 2010, the regression back to fundamentals continued in Phoenix. For people who bought at the wrong time, this value contraction leverages out to a rather substantial loss. However, the current low interest rates allow buyers to generate cash flows that will help them to sustain the investment through value fluctuations until a path of growth is resumed.
By focusing on investment in deals that produce … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Why the Stock Market Can Be Dangerous in the Current Environment - 01/13/11 02:02 PM
Conventional wisdom has long held that the way to become wealthy over the long-term is by compounded investment in the stock market. The reason for this was quite clear when one looked at the chart of historical returns. By making very modest investments at regular intervals over a long period of time, small investors could create very large amounts of wealth. This line of thinking is what has prompted most employers to source their 401k retirement plans with mutual funds that invest in the stock market.
Unfortunately, the movement of stock market investment into the ‘main stream’ of America has … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Why Cash Real Estate Investing Makes No Financial Sense - 01/04/11 01:04 PM
In our book, paying cash for a real estate transaction is not the best move. If you have over four financed properties, sure, go for it. The returns are not comparible. The reason is leverage and if you're not taking advantage of this tool, you're missing out on one of the amazing benefits of real estate investing. Let's take a look at a very simple, specific example to give you an idea of the enormity of your miscalculation if you opt to buy your next property with cash.
Let's say, n 1980, you decided to buy a rental property for $64,000 … (3 comments)
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income property investing: Rising Rents for Tenants = Passive Income for Landlords - 11/19/10 03:12 PM
If you don’t have a passing familiarity with the phrase “passive income,” let’s remedy that. Passive income can be described as money you receive without trading it straight across for time spent working. A good example would be dividends paid on stock owned. A better example, and the one we’re talking about here, is property that you own and rent out, such as apartments, condos, duplexes, and – our personal favorite – single family residential homes.
As a landlord, we like it when more people rent, right? Correct! Additional people clamoring for rental properties falls neatly within the scope of the … (9 comments)
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income property investing: 5 Tips to Buy and Hold Income Property Forever - 11/10/10 04:47 PM
Real estate expert and writer Steve Dexter, who shares author credit for “Buy and Hold Forever: How to Build Wealth for the 21st Century“ with long-time mentor, the late Dr. David Schumacher discusses why in the arena of real estate investing, owner landlords ultimately triumph, although quick income earned from riskier flipping can finance purchase of income-producing property. Investors can’t afford to ignore the advantage real estate offers as the best legal shelter for taxpayers. Assessing Future Value Of Real Estate
Dexter defines value as “the contemplation of anticipated benefits” with neighborhoods the “storehouses of value” key to investment potential. While … (2 comments)
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income property investing: Harry Dent on ‘Young people cost everything and produce almost nothing’ - 10/19/10 01:54 PM
During podcast episode number 75 on Jason Hartman’s (that's me!) Creating Wealth Show, Harry Dent, explains the ‘Dent Method,’ a long-term economic forecasting tool based on demographics. Dent has made predictions based on this method, most of which have come true. The ‘Dent Method’ takes indicators most economists never even look at because most economists are only focused on the short term trends, which are very difficult to predict. “Long term trends are easy to see,” says Dent, “the baby boom was driving all of the new trends; this created a whole new way to analyze the cycles.”
When asked about … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Your Wealthy Retirement – Theoretically - 10/13/10 04:57 PM
Theoretically, the Baby Boomers who saved for decades, religiously put money into their 401K plan, and invested wisely in mutual funds, are ready to sit back and reap the rewards of a wealthy retirement, right? Not so fast. The reality is that they might be looking at nothing more than a break even.
Here’s what’s been happening. For 50 years, the real U.S. Economy, adjusted for inflation, has averaged about 2% per year per person, a number that mysteriously matches up almost exactly with the administrative fees charged by Wall Street brokers on the majority of accounts. If you had the … (0 comments)
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income property investing: ‘Newsletter Guru,’ Jim Palmer, Shares the Secret to Building Long-term Relationships - 10/01/10 03:35 PM
June 28, 2010 – Jim Palmer, internationally known as the “Newsletter Guru,” joins my (Jason Hartman’s) Creating Wealth Show, on podcast number 163, to enlighten listeners of the power newsletter marketing has on a small business. Jim states that newsletters are one of, if not, the most powerful relationship building tool for a small business and believes every small business should be using one. “Newsletters are a means to being at the front of the customer or prospect’s mind right before they decide to buy, as long as the newsletter is being delivered on a consistent basis,” explains Jim.
During the … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Time to refinance your investment properties? - 09/23/10 01:31 PM
Refinancing is not just for homeowners. If you have a portfolio of investment properties, you might be leaving money on the table if you don’t investigate the options. At the heart of the matter, an investor refinances a portfolio of properties for the same reason a home owner would his house – to save money.
Maybe when you took out that investment mortgage your credit wasn’t great and neither was the interest rate you ended up with. As time goes by, you get used to paying it and may be under the impression that fooling with a refinance isn’t worth … (0 comments)
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income property investing: “We are not on the road to socialism, we are already there” - My interview with Pat Buchanan - 09/08/10 12:22 PM
On the 92nd Episode of my Creating Wealth Show, Pat Buchanan, a former candidate for the republican nomination, joins me (Jason Hartman) in a conversation about the current economic condition and state of the government. Pat states, “we are not on the road to socialism, we are already there,” referring to government social programs, “they have compounded as of late and rarely recede from existence once enacted.”
During the podcast, Pat and I use California as an example of a state in jeopardy. “The producers are leaving and the tax consumers are flooding in; however, the tax burden remains on the … (3 comments)
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income property investing: A letter Addressed to Rush Limbaugh - 09/01/10 12:25 PM
Dear Rush,
We’ve been listening to your show for a while now and are beginning to pick up on a subtle vibe that maybe you don’t completely trust the Obama in Chief with the direction of the country. Not sure if you realize it but spitting in the faces of our Founding Fathers is not even the worst of it.
Have you looked at your portfolio lately?
As a born and raised Missourian from the Show Me state, we’re sure you pay close attention to the direction of your portfolio, which probably feels like a shot put dropped on your foot … (8 comments)
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income property investing: Like Junk Bonds, Only Better - 08/03/10 01:48 PM
The great part about junk bonds is you can make an incredible return on your investment. The rest of the story is there is a high risk of default. Is it possible to earn junk bond level returns without the accompanying risk?
We thought you’d never ask. Of course there is! It’s called income property and if you are serious about achieving financial independence, we’ve never seen anything like it. Here’s another example from the eternally robust (for investors) Indianapolis real estate market.
We’re talking about an 1,800 square foot property built in 2000. Yes, it needs some rehab … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Content will Still be King in the Future - 07/13/10 06:14 PM
Many internet marketing strategies are based around content, quasi-content, and flat out spam. Regarding the latter, you know the kind of website we’re talking about because you stumble across them every day. A thinly disguised “informational” page plastered with so many ads you nervously click away, victim of visual overload.
And what passes for content on their website is either a nonsensical keyword stuffed collection of paragraphs or an incoherent mash of words put together for $5 by a person who uses English as a fourth or fifth language.
Here’s a clue – Google hates this stuff! If they … (0 comments)
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income property investing: Invest in a property that’s properly located - 06/17/10 07:28 PM
Most people are aware of the old maxim “Location, location, location.” when it comes to real estate investing of any sort, and income property investing is no different. We at Platinum Properties Investor Network are here to tell you – it’s true!
An example of this is a form of rental investing you may not have considered is university housing. One thing that appears to be a constant – no matter the present state of the economy, sometimes it even increases during hard times – is that people will always seek to better themselves financially and enrich themselves intellectually through … (4 comments)
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Jason Hartman
Costa Mesa,
CA
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While running my successful real estate and media businesses, I (Jason Hartman) believe that giving back to the community plays an important role in building strong personal relationships. In addition to my real estate investing company (Platinum Properties Investor Network - www.JasonHartman.com), I established The Jason Hartman Foundation in 2005 with $200,000 of my own money to provide financial literacy education to young adults so they can utilize the all important real world skills not taught in school which are the key to the financial stability and success of future generations. We’re in a global monetary crisis caused by decades of misguided policies and the cycle of financial dependence has to be broken, literacy and self-reliance are a good start. I am here to help!
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