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Book Review: Eat That Frog! by Brian Tracy
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Time management is an issue for many on both a personal and professional level. Author Brian Tracy makes it clear that the important piece of time management and prioritizing is not completing every task (because you never will!) but rather finding the most challenging tasks and getting those done first.
The title of the book comes from an old Mark Twain quote, saying that if the first thing you do is eat a frog, you will do nothing worse the rest of the day. Tracy likens the frog in this...
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USA Investment Property ? A Great Choice For Investors
From Real Estate Investment Blog, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
USA investment property is becoming very popular these days, and many foreign investors, especially from the UK, Australia and Europe, would prefer purchasing properties in this country.
There are several economic reasons that are responsible for the US property market to work well, where investors can make large profits from relatively small investments. It is important therefore to comprehend the crucial elements that contribute to the unparalleled opportunities which are available now, as...
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How to Lower Your Property Taxes
From Real Estate Investment Blog, 7 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Half of all homeowners may be paying too much. Here’s what you can do about it.
Home prices are still going down in many markets. But your property-tax bill might well be going up.
The good news: There are ways to fight back.
Property taxes across the U.S. have increased by nearly 20% from 2005 to 2009, the most recent data available, according to an April study by the National Association of Home Builders. The median annual real-estate-tax payment was $1,917 in 2009, up from $1,614...
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The New Real Estate Boom
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Home prices and sales may be flat, but the rental industry is booming. The percentage of renters is on the rise, the number of households is increasing, and more Americans are downsizing, all of which point in a single direction: rents are on the rise.
At the peak of the housing boom, home ownership in America reached an all-time high at 69.2%. Today that number has plummeted to fewer than 67%, which may not sound like a huge drop, but that represents roughly 3 million households...
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Understanding Property Taxes
From Real Estate Investment Blog, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Property taxes can be a major expense for investors, but understanding how this tax works could save you thousands of dollars in the long run.
The first thing to learn about property tax is that property is divided into two categories: real and personal. Real property includes land, buildings and permanent property attached to land' such as a well. Personal property is everything else, including clothes, books, electronics, furniture and financial holdings. Personal property is further divided...
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National Economic Outlook (September 2011)
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Read the newspapers and we’re at the brink: Global Gloom, Deepening Pessimism, Markets Drop Sharply. Is another Great Depression just around the corner' Is the US slumping to a decade of stagnation a la Japan' Is China now eating the lunch we thought we had bought cheap' Is our financial system just a Vegas vacation, making the house rich but producing no growth'
The answer is no, even though China is nibbling at that burrito and bankers are at the slots. The hero coming to the rescue of...
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Build Your Real Estate Dream Team
From Real Estate Investment Blog, 8 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Many entrepreneurs believe that, if you want something done right, do it yourself. Personally, I believe that is the rationalization of control freaks unwilling to delegate.
In reality, your dream team will help you reach your financial goals faster than you ever can alone.
Sure, you can find motivated sellers and build a great buyer’s list on your own, but other tasks require the expertise of others.
Some of the members of your team should include:
real estate agents, who can bring...
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U.S. Housing Market Intelligence Report (August 2011)
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Categories are graded from A thru F:
Economic Growth: C- (June 2011: D+)
The U.S. economic recovery remains sluggish. Real GDP grew at a 1.3% pace in 2Q11, following downwardly revised growth of 0.4% in 1Q11; far below the 1.9% rate of expansion previously estimated for last quarter. We now have positive Y/Y employment growth for eleven consecutive months, with payrolls expanding by 117,000 in July, up from 46,000 in June, and the unemployment rate dropping from 9.2% to 9.1%. Initial jobless...
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Next 2 Years is Prime Time for Real Estate Investors
From Real Estate Investment Blog, 9 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Real estate investors are likely to be three times more active than other types of home-buyers in their local markets within the next two years, according to a national survey by Realtor.com operator Move Inc.
Market research firm GfK Custom Research North America conducted the survey on behalf of Move from April 11-15, 2011. The survey included telephone interviews of 1,200 U.S. adults, of which about 200 were identified as real estate investors. Data was weighted by age, sex,...
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National Economic Outlook (August 2011)
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Jobs, jobs, jobs! That’s what we’ll hear from now on through the 2012 election, and rightly so. Although they claim otherwise, Wall Street and the Big Banks are not the essential, indispensable, must-be-bailed-out part of the national economy: it’s people with jobs. Those people account for 70 percent of the economy (the government is 20 percent).
As we’ve already seen, those people aren’t spending very much money these days, needing no more time-share condos,...
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