I’m going to a real estate investment conference tomorrow. Supposedly the guy speaking is a genuine marvel of a success story, and I’m not saying that I doubt it. After all, real estate is packed with success stories, but I’m a skeptic until I see something that convinces me otherwise. And that brings me to [...]
Look back over the last week, the last month, the last year, and ask yourself this question: did I accomplish what I thought I would? Am I happy about the progress I made during that time? Am I likely to accomplish what I think I will over the next week, month, or year?
Truthfully, I can’t [...]
About a year ago, I started blogging in earnest about personal finance and investment, as well as the occasional post on personal development. In April 2007, I started a series about investing for young adults, which took me a bit longer to complete than originally planned (6 months vs. 1 month). During the process of [...]
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.
T. E. Lawrence, “The Seven Pillars [...]
I’m in the process of buying the house below. Yes, it’s ugly (you should see the inside). It’s a HUD foreclosure and it needs about $8k in repairs, but I got it for about $33k less than the ARV (after-repaired value). Unfortunately, commissions and repairs and everything else eat into that pretty [...]
I’ve been reading a book called The Sky’s the Limit: Passion and Property in Manhattan about the high-stakes and often crazy world of residential real estate in NYC. It’s fascinating stuff.
A few of the streets in Manhattan, like Fifth and Park Avenue, are home to some of the most concentrated areas of personal wealth [...]