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Cash Ain’t Always King – It’s About Timing and Strategy

by Jeff Brown | April 5, 2011

The saying, cash is king is on my A-List of most used and abused phrases in real estate investing. Knowledge is king, and will trump the use of cash pretty much every time out, given time. Yet, in today’s market, one we’ve dealt with several years now, the phrase is repeated as if merely saying [...]

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How Cash Flow VS Capital Growth Mirrors Bodybuilding VS Weight Lifting

by Jeff Brown | February 22, 2011

Picture Mr. Universe, the epitome of bodybuilding, workin’ out like he wanted to be the world’s strongest man. Then ask yourself why nobody would ever think that’s effective. Those who want the ultimate bodybuilder’s physique sometimes think it works, or they wouldn’t workout that way. What’s their thought process? Do they have one? If so, [...]

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Are You Sabotaging Your Own Retirement? Let Us Count The Ways

by Jeff Brown | November 30, 2010

At some point, everyone stops to contemplate their retirement. I don’t mean they begin to contribute or invest in some plan, real estate or otherwise. I mean they begin to wonder if their plan is destined to provide the retirement for which it was designed in the first place. For some, this happens early on, [...]

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An Alternative to The Self Directed IRA

by Clint Coons | November 11, 2010

Last week I discussed some of the prohibited transaction rules concerning retirement accounts. The point of my post was to make readers aware of the minefields that exist when investing in real estate in these accounts. These rules apply to all forms of retirement accounts, i.e., IRA, 401(k), ROTH IRA, Defined Benefit Plans, ESOP, 401(a), [...]

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5 Steps to Create Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) Mortgages

by Julie Broad | November 10, 2010

Tired of just hoping your retirement savings won’t drop in your investments? Want some level of assurance that your money will grow in your retirement savings account? Do you want to enjoy the kind of returns a bank does? Want your retirement savings secured by a hard asset? If you answered yes to any or [...]

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Tackling Retirement One House at a Time

by Julie Broad | September 29, 2010

My brother is about to move into his very first home. I’m pretty excited for him because he’s been working towards this day for a really long time. It’s too bad I absolutely hate the house. It has a great ocean view and a super convenient location but that is where the positive aspects of [...]

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Back To The Future – Wicked Cool Retirement – OR – “Sorry, We Can’t Afford To Go…”

by Jeff Brown | August 10, 2010

I realize this post is long. But given its topic is possibly one of the most important to millions of Baby Boomers and their offspring, I would ask you to gimme a pass on the length, OK? Thanks Last week’s post wasn’t new for me, as I’ve been tellin’ folks my thoughts on the relative [...]

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Your Retirement — 19th Century — Back To The Future

by Jeff Brown | July 6, 2010

I haven’t done a buncha research on this, but in talkin’ with the really old farts in my family, a couple of whom were born in the 1920′s, I’ve learned some interesting/alarming little factoids about retirement back then. For 99%, retirement appeared to be the ultimate Do-It-Yourself project — sink or swim — but in [...]

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A Real Estate Investor Without An Exit Plan Is Like a Baseball Team With No Closer

by Jeff Brown | March 30, 2010

Ya don’t need to understand much about baseball to know that if you can’t protect a lead in the 9th inning, you’re not gonna win as much as you’d like. The Padres team of recent vintage, especially the ’98 team, understood this principle well. They not only had a great (Hall of Fame?) closer in [...]

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Understanding How the Stages of Life Should Affect Investment Strategy

by Jeff Brown | March 23, 2010

Ya don’t give a drowning man a glass of water, right? It’s not appropriate to his immediate circumstance. That glass of water makes a lot more sense when given to the man in the desert who’s been without water for a couple days. In this initial part of a series, I will address a common [...]

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My Accountant and Retirement Secrets

by Jason Hanson | February 28, 2010

On Friday I met with my accountant to take care of my taxes. Luckily, it’s never that bad of an experience because I use Quickbooks and Quicken rental so I’m pretty organized. Basically, I print off all of the forms, put them in a folder, hand them to my accountant and have him do his [...]

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Tax Free Income From Your Real Estate Investment Success

by Jeff Brown | January 12, 2010

How often have you heard or read somebody declare that when you retire, your tax rate will go down? The third rail, at least when I’ve written about it, is the 401k — which might be the best designed transfer of private wealth to government coffers ever. One might gently ask the question, “How’s that been [...]

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Make Over $150K a Year? Excellent! Here’s a Strategy For You

by Jeff Brown | January 5, 2010

One of the most often heard comments during phone conversations with potential clients is, “I didn’t know that was possible.” Or something similar. The foundation for successful investing is doing things on Purpose with a Plan. Taxes and the sheltering thereof is a main cog for most real estate investors. More important, how does the [...]

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Worshipping At the Altar of Cash Flow – II

by Jeff Brown | December 22, 2009

There are many schools of thought when it comes to investing in real estate for retirement. Two of them dominate. One says you buy property and hold it forever. When you’ve saved up enough to buy another one you do — and hold IT forever. The idea is you allow rental income to pay off [...]

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When Is Cash Flow NOT the Be All End All?

by Jeff Brown | December 18, 2009

If you’re relatively young or not yet 50, earning more than enough income at work, and living the lifestyle you more or less prefer, cash flow ain’t yer problem. Think about it from a practical viewpoint. You’re paying taxes, saving money, going on vacations, and educating your kids. You have retirement plans at work, (please [...]

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