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July 31, 2024 2:45 pm |
What’s an Intelligent Investor?
We have an investing “bible” in our house: Benjamin Graham’s The Intelligent Investor. We aim to read it at least once every 2 years. It gives me the only definition of “Investor” (vs. “Speculator”) that I accept. Graham states “An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these requirements are speculative.”
In my … Read more
July 24, 2024 1:32 pm |
It’s July 2024 and Philly Tax Sales are back!
Philly is starved for tax revenue and housing units. The restart of Tax Lien Sales can help if conducted with fairness and transparency.
As an investor, make sure you incorporate getting clear title as part of Tax Lien investments. Here’s a quick, easy refresher on why you should get title insurance.
Two different paths for title insurance on Sheriff… Read more
July 15, 2024 12:32 pm |
Imagine this: 9th grade Anita. Hurrying home from high school and racing to my Amma’s bedroom across from mine where there was an off-white corded phone on her nightstand. Plopping down. Waiting. And waiting. Day after day as the school’s Sadie Hawkins dance approached. I had asked the boy. He had smiled. There was no response…yet. (more on this story later in the post)
Folks, I need a rule … Read more
July 10, 2024 2:43 pm |
Why I Started Hyper-Calendaring
The most precious individual resources we have are time and health. While much of health is genetic and/or hereditary as well as environmental, the rest of it is entirely dependent upon what we do with our time. I was hit upside the head with this when I had my health challenges last year. The only actionable thing I could do per my doctors was to exercise … Read more
July 5, 2024 2:58 pm |
No construction experience?
For a newbie real estate investor, articles abound regarding managing your properties yourself. The discussion topics range from how to choose a good one, the importance of having one, balancing time over costs, not being penny wise pound foolish, what to do if you live in a different location, and so on.
On the one hand, I’m a woman of color with more MacGyver-like skills than construction … Read more
July 5, 2024 12:58 pm |
Why is this value important to me?
Who amongst us, contemplating parenting, hasn’t read an article or book (or 20) about raising kids with the right mindset? For each parent, what “right” means is individualized, to be sure. One thing I do find common amongst parents is the hope to raise a child who values experiences over material things. All experiences – the easy ones, the hard ones (heard of … Read more
