Dear Readers: Celebrating Father’s Day for the first time can be great fun — and a little scary. The new responsibilities that go along with the joys of becoming a father can give even the most prepared new dad a ...
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Read More »Dear Mr. Berko: I had bad luck last year buying various high-yielding issues you and my two top brokers recommended. The brokers lost over 70% and did embarrassingly worse than you. According to my wife, who’s my business partner and ...
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Read More »Dear Mr. Berko: Half our investment club believes the market will crash this year and enter into a recession. We’re thinking of moving to 80% cash. Your thoughts, please. Another question: We all did well in our work years, and ...
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Read More »I was having a conversation with other real estate investors about the dreadful tactic known as “co-wholesaling”, “joint venturing” or “daisy chaining” in which one investor will have a property for sale, and another “wholesaler” will advertise that property ...
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Read More »By: Chad Carson “After a couple of bankruptcies, even the brightest stars soon discover that ‘Nothing Down’ leads to ‘Nothing Left’. Feasible financing is the key to real estate cash flow and wealth. This is best obtained from motivated sellers ...
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Read More »Dear Mr. Berko: If you think it’s a good idea, we’d like to invest $25,000 each in three regional banks for our self-managed retirement account. During the last 14 years we earned an average annual return of 8.2%. I ...
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Read More »Use of leverage (debt) is an integral strategy for many real estate investors. But in my experience, misuse of leverage is the #1 reason investors lose money. I have some negative cash flow “scars” to prove this from my ...
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Read More »Dear Mr. Berko: I’m close to retirement and my $400,000 IRA didn’t do well under my previous broker. Over the last 11 years, it’s averaged 7.23%. I asked him to be more aggressive, and it’s just not his style. So ...
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Read More »INVESTORS’ CORNER: A game plan for success investing in real estate I want to share with you some ideas on using real estate to become debt free and build your cash reserves. It has worked for me and I have ...
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Read More »Dear Carrie: I’m collegebound and beginning to look at financing options. Given the sometimes alarming headlines about student-debt levels, should I be worried about overextending myself? — A Reader Dear Reader: The headlines are indeed alarming: — “The Student Loan ...
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