Many people ask the question is it better to invest in single-family or multifamily rental properties? A lot of investors assume multifamily properties are the better investment because they are built to produce income for landlords. Many real estate investors also say that multifamily properties are the best, but I think single-family homes can be … Read more
I’ve always heard how evil PayDay cash loans are. They have been called “scams” and “ripoffs”. I, personally, never had a run in with them until recently. I met with a 60+ year old woman that was having a hard time making it work financially. She was still employed and trying to take care of […]
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Today, I have a great article from Carrie Willard. Carrie is a homeschooling mom of 7 kids aged 2-18. She encourages moms to simplify the mundane to make more time for the sublime on her blog: http://www.CarrieWillard.com. Her newest ebook, The Temporary Tightwad, explains how to radically reduce your spending in order to meet a life-changing […]
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Welcome to another Ask GFC! If you have a question that you want answered you can ask it here. If your questions get featured on GFC TV or the GFC Podcast, you are the lucky recipient of a copy of my best selling book, Soldier of Finance, and a $50 Amazon gift card.So what are […]
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Yesterday, my pal Jim Collins dropped me a line. “The audio version of my book just came out,” he told me. “Audible is letting me give away some free copies. Do you think your readers would be interested?” I do think so! Plus, this is a perfect opportunity to migrate my review of The Simple Path to Wealth from Money Boss to Get Rich Slowly. At the end of this article, I’ll explain how you can get a copy of Jim’s audiobook, if you’re interested (and lucky).
In 2015 and 2016, Kim and I took a 15-month RV trip across the United States in an RV. It was awesome.
During late July 2015, we stopped for a few days on the Wisconsin side of Lake Michigan. My friend Jim Collins had invited us to spend some time at Shamba, the waterfront vacation home that belongs to his sister-in-law. For several days, we sipped wine and walked in the surf with Collins and his wife. We also talked about work. (I had just begun formulating plans for Money Boss; Jim was writing a book.)
“What do you do?” Kim asked Collins on our first afternoon at Shamba.
“I retired early,” he explained. “I saved up and got out of the rat race. Now I write a blog about money. It started as notes I wanted to share with my daughter, but it’s become something bigger. I guess most people know me because of my series of articles on stock-market investing. Now I’m turning the blog into a book.”
“Ugh,” Kim said. “Investing frustrates me. J.D. has tried to explain his investment philosophy a couple of times since we started dating. He says it’s simple, but it still seems overwhelming.”
“It doesn’t have to be,” Collins said. “You should read my articles. Maybe they’ll help.” Kim read his articles. They helped.
By the time we’d driven around the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and made our way to Indiana’s Amish country, Collins’ blog had spurred Kim to action. As I sat in the RV outlining my early vision for Money Boss, Kim was opening Vanguard accounts and moving her retirement savings into index funds.
During four years together, I couldn’t persuade Kim to manage her own retirement savings. Collins convinced her in two weeks. His advice is that good.
Since that weekend in Wisconsin, Collins published the book he was working on. The Simple Path to Wealth presents the advice from his blog in a coherent, unified package. It’s an easy-to-understand primer on stock-market investing â and financial independence.
The last few days I’ve been hearing an awful lot about the Government’s new “Making Home Affordable” program, which has been set up to help people refinance existing mortgages, or do a loan modification to help them to stay in their house. The government’s website explains what the program is meant to do: Making Home […]
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This is a guest post from Alex Craig of HaveaRichMarriage.com. Hello. Iâm Alex, and I am a recovering spendaholic. I am not ashamed to admit that. Spending money felt great, I felt stylish when I bought new clothes, I felt like James Bond when I would rent Corvettes for the day, and I felt like […]
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The idea of making money online is incredibly appealing. Who doesn’t want to earn money while they are sitting on their couch? There are hundreds of ways that you can make money online, but if you do a Google search, some of them are going to be legit while others are going to be scams. […]
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Fear is not a most welcomed feeling and we spend a great deal of time and energy trying to avoid it. Yet all that goes out the window when it comes to horror stories, which tap into an emotional masochism of sorts, captivating us with their harrowing tales, jump scares, and carefully picked creepy houses. […]
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