I’m often talking to friends about different investment vehicles or investing in general, and I cannot remember how many times they have at some point said “yea I would invest my money too, but I can never save” or “I never have money to invest”. They don’t understand how they should be setting money aside.
People [...]

Filed under: Saving

I thought I would start off the week with 5 reasons to invest in real estate. As many of you may already know real estate is a very powerful vehicle. In fact 90% of millionaires made their first million in real estate. That is one statistic that is hard to ignore. So without further delay [...]

Filed under: Investments, Real Estate

I just thought I would post some interesting articles I’ve read for the week. Hope you enjoy them:
A sudden expense changes everything: An intriguing post about the effect of sudden expenses (Lazy Man and Money)
Personal Finance Readers Guide: Title pretty much says it all, description wise from Blueprint for Financial Prosperity
Fidelity reopens [...]

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I was fortunate enough tonight to be invited by my fellow employer to the Calgary CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) Forecast dinner. Having never been to one before I wasn’t sure what to expect. What I should have expected, was a lot of people. There were over 200 tables, with 8 people per table, well [...]

Filed under: Events, Investments

Online poker is big (were talking billions big) and despite all the legal troubles facing it, continues to be very popular. So popular that thousands of people play online poker as a full time job. I won’t get into the discussion of how poker is a skill game just yet, so don’t tempt me!
As with [...]

Filed under: Alternative Income

Yesterday I refreshed everybody’s memory on passive income and gave the classic example of real estate. Today I thought I would show some more less capital intensive forms of passive income.
Believe it or not the first example is right in front of you! Websites and/or blogs can be great forms of passive income, and they [...]

Filed under: Passive Income

I’d thought I would start this blog with one of my favorite forms of income. As some of you may already know passive income is income that you receive without continuing to put in effort. In other words you earn passive income while your driving in your car, while your hanging out with friends and [...]

Filed under: Passive Income, Portfolio Income, Real Estate

Every candidate has their own prime top level domain name for their campaign. But how do they get these domains even if they are their name and how much do they pay? Currently, Mike Huckabee’s website(www.mikehuckabee.com) is pulling in donations of roughly $5000 every 15 minutes. Not bad. Apparently, the only person who had [...]

Filed under: Misc.

This was emailed to me today by the Director of Public Relations for Busch Gardens:
Please join us as Busch Entertainment Corporation announces the most significant news in its history.
Join executives and animal friends from our Worlds of Discovery as we celebrate this momentous event with a ceremony at Shamu Stadium, followed by a delicious lunch [...]

Filed under: Articles