The 2 Paths to Becoming a Millionaire in the Next 5 Years
Can you go from broke to millionaire in five years? Yes. But it’s not easy—if it were, everyone would do it. It took me seven years to reach a seven-figure…
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G. Brian Davis
How to Build a “Set-It-and-Forget-It” Real Estate Portfolio Without Owning Rentals
Rental investing isn’t passive. I know firsthand—I once owned 20+ rental properties. It takes a ton of work to buy them, stabilize them, and manage them, year in and year…
How the Wealthiest Have Programmed Their Portfolios This Year
Despite stock markets hovering around record highs, investors are feeling jittery. You can see it in consumer confidence collapsing to its lowest level since 2014, as well as in the…
6 Ways I’ve Diversified My Passive Portfolio in Search of “Perfection”
Every time I’ve tried to get “clever” and pick “the next hot investment,” life crammed some humble pie down my throat. I don’t do that anymore. In my stock investments,…
Can You Live on Half Your Income? Here’s the Playbook to Ramping Up Your Investment Potential
For the last seven years, my wife and I went from basically no assets to a roughly $1 million net worth. And we did it entirely through saving money and…
Investors Still Face Plenty of Financial Risks This Year—Here’s What You Should Watch Out For
Entering 2026, there’s no shortage of risks on the table. From asset bubbles to geopolitical instability, here are the threats I see—and how I’m protecting against them. Asset Bubbles A…
Why Someone Earning $50K/Year Can Be Richer Than Someone Earning $200K/Year Through the Power of Saving
People love to lament that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There is, of course, some truth there, but not just because “the system is rigged.” For…
Top 10 Markets Where Prices Will Rise and Fall in 2026
Home prices reached an all-time high in early 2025, only to dip, recover, and return to almost exactly where they started. Nationwide, Zillow forecasts home prices will rise a modest…
Can Real Estate Save You From AI-Related Unemployment?
Worried that artificial intelligence (AI) will replace lower- and middle-income jobs, and only create wealth for business owners? Billionaire Ray Dalio argues that AI is making the bottom 60% of…
Worried About an Asset Bubble? Then You’ll Be Happy to Hear That Multifamily is Definitely Not in One
Is every asset class in a bubble? Whether you think so or not, the fears are all too plausible. Despite the longest government shutdown in history, reheating inflation, continuing tariff…
How I Went from $0 to $1 Million in 7 Years
In 2018, I started over with nothing. By 2025, I’m in spitting distance of the Two-Comma Club. When I first started investing in real estate in my mid-20s, I made…
Give Up on These Overrated Retirement Tropes
Remember the days when workers retired at 62 with a pension and lived comfortably for the rest of their days? Actually, I don’t remember those days. But plenty of workers…
Passive Real Estate Investments Can Be Risky—These are the Red and Green Flags to Look For
Most passive real estate investments forecast returns in the 12%-20% range. Some come with high risk, while others come with low or moderate risk. The critical question for investors is,…
