THE U.S. HOMEOWNERSHIP RATE IS CLOSE TO ITS LOWEST LEVEL SINCE THE 1960S. HERE'S WHY While the U.S. homeownership rate has climbed slightly since reaching a 50-year low in 2016, it remains near a generational low at just 63.7%. Simply put, more people are choosing to...
Finance
Why Some Hot Companies Crash While Other Thrive
As featured on Huffington Post. “Move fast and break things” was Facebook’s old internal motto until Mark Zuckerberg opted for something less catchy: “Move fast with stable infrastructure.” While the new slogan didn’t have the same ring to it, it heralded a more...
Why Now May Be a Great Time To Be Proactive and Open a New IRA
Congratulations. You made it past Tax Day. That may be a bigger accomplishment than you realize; Albert Einstein himself once complained to his accountant, “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” Now that you have completed the stressful and...
Real Estate Crowdfunding with a Cash Flow Focus
The recent trend toward the online “crowdfunding” of investment opportunities has started to make real estate investments available to accredited investors. But real estate is an illiquid asset – so how can current income be realized during the period before a sale...