Category Archives: Investing

Do you know of any professional athletes who do not have a coach?  When you are serious about making money AND building wealth (by knowing how to KEEP what you make) as an entrepreneur – as I have chosen to … Continue reading →

Depending upon your background, chances are that your definition and perceived image of an investor differs from that of the next person. I only know about one investor intimately – me. Yet, I don’t think why I do what I … Continue reading →

Last month, I wrote about finding vacant properties. We have proven to ourselves that we can find around 150 of them each week during a six-hour, house-hunting trip. This post is about how we are doing it.  Also included is … Continue reading →

Until such time when our cash flow stabilizes, we have chosen to focus on the business of wholesaling properties to other investors. Doing so requires houses that are available for wholesaling. How do we find them? One of the ways … Continue reading →

Oakland County, Michigan, in which we reside, held a property-tax foreclosure auction for three consecutive days in August. Over 1,100 properties were scheduled to be auctioned off. In previous years, I had paid little attention to these auctions. And, based … Continue reading →

Last month, I let off steam by writing about the federal laws that killed our business model. Once I made up my mind to abandon it, however, there was no turning back no matter how much anyone else tried to tell … Continue reading →

I have the freedom to choose to invest outside of Wall Street. Or, at least, I still firmly believe this to be the case. As a law-abiding citizen of the United States, however, I cannot choose to operate outside of … Continue reading →

As an adult immigrant, I have been driven to prove to myself that I can remain free and independent in this country of my childhood dreams. For nearly a decade, David and I have invested in real estate the conventional … Continue reading →

“Retirement Gamble” aired on Frontline on April 23, 2013.  For me, it was an excellent summary and reminder of why I do what I do day in and day out. The market crash of 2000 was the trigger that made … Continue reading →

In last month’s blog post, I talked about downsizing. It was necessitated primarily by the seismic shifts in both real-estate and capital markets. For those of us who invested our retirement funds into real estate and suffered the severe consequences … Continue reading →