The Secret Life of the World’s Oldest Asset: What You Don’t Know About Gold Could Make You Wealthy

The first stock exchange was established in 1602. The real estate industry as we know it has its roots in property rights established in the 1800’s. But at least as early as 600 BC, humans have used gold as currency.  And yet a 2019 survey by the Fed revealed that a mere 10% of American…

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Conquering Fear and Taking The Leap — David Pupo and the “Triple Offer Method”

David Pupo did not set out to become a coach and mentor to real estate investors. Junior or novice investors simply noticed his runaway success — over 300 transactions and a big portfolio of rental properties, accumulated using his signature “Triple Offer Method,”  — and asked him for advice.  He started charging for his time…

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Black Gold — Making 3X-8X on the One Resource Found in Everything

Real estate is everywhere. Lots of people go into it. Lots of people understand it. After all, many of us will own a home at one point, and even more of us will rent one. It’s kind of easy to understand that business, because we’re all customers of that business. Other people embrace a more…

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Buying Back 150 Days a Year With His Loved Ones

After almost 25 years working for Silicon Valley startups, had about 150 reasons to want to get out of the rat race — the 150 or so days the various startups he worked for had him in cars and on planes, almost half a year on the road pitching software solutions in person.  If he…

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The 3 Pillars of Real Estate Investing … And The Questions a Veteran Investor Wishes She Had Been Asking All Along

Denise Piazza likes numbers. “My husband and I are both CPAs,” she told Michael Duncan of the CamaPlan Podcast, “and so that pretty much means our kids have no chance of being cool whatsoever.” As such, she doesn’t just stop at the growing numbers of units under management at her investment firm, One Street Capital….

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Making a Difference and a Profit in Colombian Coffee

When Legacy Group decided to make a modest entry into the Colombian Coffee business in 2017, they quickly discovered they were thinking too small. “At first we were looking to pay cash flow,” Josh Ziegelbaum, Director of Investor Relations for the fast-growing alternative investment fund, told Michael Duncan of The Road to Financial Freedom Podcast,…

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Housing, Food, and Energy — Investing Like the Rich Do

Like so many real estate investors, Patrick Grimes learned a lot of lessons the hard way in 2008 and 2009. Having begun investing in single-family homes in 2006, he found himself at the top of a market that (supposedly) had no top.  “I was a high paid high tech professional,” he told Michael Duncan of…

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Opportunity Zones and the “Core Four”

Mike Hardy’s Terrific Tax Loophole … And Philosophy for a Balanced Life When Mike Hardy began to learn about Opportunity Zones, a relatively new innovation in the tax code, he thought they were too good to be true.  Adopted in 2017 to help drive investment to areas in decline, this little-known temporary initiative allowed states…

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Real Estate Investing Lessons Learned on the Court with LeBron

Brian Grimes Turns Existing Structures into Affordable Housing — and Massive Profits Brian Grimes went to Columbia University, but he traces his success in real estate — culminating in the founding of 24/7 Cash Flow University  and the YouTube channel Brian Loves Cash Flow — back to the time he spent on the basketball court with…

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Helping People Keep Their Homes: The Positive Community Impact of Note Investing for Fun and Profit

The Positive Community Impact of Note Investing for Fun and Profit Tanya Brown is sensitive about investors wanting to get into real estate notes for the wrong reasons. Often they are “fix-and-flip” investors, coming to her for her expertise because they see real estate notes as a great way to get the properties cheap through…

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