I haven’t had personal experience with this part of making money with real estate, but everything I read and hear seems to make the case that its typically a significant part of an investor’s return. Once I read that basically the more “unusual” whatever you’re doing is, the better the taxation. At a certain level [...]
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Mike is the owner of ABCs of Investing and Money Smarts Blog, personal finance and investing web site with a goal to help you become a better investor.
5 Ways to Make Money With Investment Properties, Part 4: Taxes
February 19th, 20105 Ways to Make Money With Investment Properties, Part 3: Inflation
February 18th, 2010In most investments inflation causes you problems. With real estate investing its your friend in a major way. Inflation is measured by taking an imaginary basket of goods, and figuring out what they’d cost at different points in time. If the purchases would cost more than they would have in the past, the difference is [...]
5 Ways to Make Money With Investment Properties, Part 1: Cash Flow
February 16th, 2010One of the common comments from people who have considered investing in real estate (and decided against it) is that the returns are too low for the labour invested. This is fair, however, like any investment, its worthwhile to estimate, as exactly as possible, WHAT the returns will be, THEN decide whether its worth putting [...]
Growth Investing – A Short Explanation
February 12th, 2010Growth investing is a strategy by which an investor buys stocks that are forecast to grow at rates exceeding that of its peers or the overall stock market. Growth investors do so by identifying companies that have a special market niche or a new technology which changes the rules of the playing field significantly. Google [...]
How To Value Real Estate Properties
February 10th, 2010Valuation of real estate properties is quite difficult – in fact it can really only be done within a fairly broad range since in my opinion it is just too hard to try to accurately predict the sale price of a house. The title of this post should have been “How to guess at real [...]
It’s OK Not To Be Saving For Retirement In Your 20s and 30s
February 4th, 2010I always enjoy features in MoneySense or the Globe and Mail where they profile a family, highlight their current money issues, then consult with a panel of financial planners for suggestions on what the family should do moving forward. MoneySense talked to a couple who worked, lived a frugal lifestyle, were paying down their mortgage [...]
Should I Buy ETFs Or Index Funds?
February 1st, 2010Low cost passive investing is more in vogue than ever. With the most recent market meltdown affecting both managed mutual funds as well as their low-cost counterparts index funds and exchange traded funds – many investors are asking why they are paying extra money for managers who manage to lose just as much money as [...]
Why Retirees Need Equity In Their Portfolios
January 28th, 2010One of the standard pieces of advice for retirees is that they have to have a very conservative portfolio since they are too old to take any chances with equities. There are “rules” around what percentage of fixed income (i.e., bonds) a retiree should have. “90 minus your age” is one that I’ve heard a [...]
9 Easy Ways to Save Money On Investment Costs
January 19th, 2010As most readers know I’m pretty big on low cost investing — it’s one thing to talk about it — how about some actual suggestions on how to do it!! Save on taxes – Investing in a taxable account when you have tax free retirement accounts available is costing you money. Max the RRSP, 401(k), [...]
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