When Jason Hartman speaks, he often refers to his mother. Aside from a genuine affection for the woman that raised him, Jason talks about his mom because it’s a story full of lessons. In 1976, Jason’s mother purchased her first house (which she still owns) for...
Sorry, baby boomers. You're no longer number one. For decades that group of people born between 1946 and 1960 or so have bee the biggest single group in the US, the subject of endless study by everyone from psychologists to advertising directors. But new statistics...
The first key to understanding inflation is to recognize the difference between real and nominal. If you think about a physical $100 bill, it is easy to understand that 50 years ago, it was still a $100 bill. We called it the same thing, it looked (mostly) the same...
While you have a variety of investment options, very few of them allow you to always remain in control. Stocks and bonds are fickly, unpredictable, and have bad leverage. They offer either low tax benefits or no tax benefits at all. They’re a paper asset, a fiat by...
For many, home ownership represents the ultimate investment, perhaps because it is so engrained in our ideas about the American Dream. But it’s tricky—one of the signs of a good investment is its ability to make money. For most of us, this isn’t the case with a home....
Buying real estate is the road to long term wealth – but not all real estate purchases work the same way to get you there. In a recovering market, flipping houses seems like the way to make quick money – but as Jason Hartman says, the fast buy and sell of flipping...
Keeping things running smoothly in residential real estate depends partly on knowing local, state and federal laws relating to landlords and tenants. A property owner’s efforts to screen out problem tenants and keep the property in tip top shape can collide with those...
The concept of “branding” is everywhere these days, as marketing gurus and business guides stress the importance of having a unique and recognizable public identity, whether you’re a large corporation, an entrepreneur or even a job seeker just entering the employment...
If the Internet suddenly disappeared, if your iPad screen went permanently blank, if the television remote stopped working, what would you do? If you’re like a lot of people around the world, you’d be climbing the walls. Maybe such a sweeping technology blackout isn’t...
You probably know at least one person who has been through a divorce and subsequently lost all of their money. In the he said/she said of it all, parties divided wealth and halved their assets. But a loss of wealth following a divorce is actually more complicated than...
How do the rich pay zero taxes legally? What kind of government incentives can you use to reduce or eliminate your tax burden? Tom Wheelwright’s new book The Win-Win Wealth Strategy: 7 Investments the Government Will Pay You to Make shows you how to save big on taxes!