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Investing Ideas

Real Estate Investing For Passive Income: Gulf Coast

One of the most time tested ways to make passive income is through investing in real estate. From the dawn of private property ownership, renting property to others for use as a home, place of business or a farm has been a very good way to generate consistent income that does not involve trading time for dollars. [...]

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How to Choose a Financial Adviser

As you build a portfolio of passive income financial assets, you are likely to want a good investment adviser.   Just because your mom uses a particular money manager does not mean that money manager is the best fit or the most qualified for you. Some factors worth considering in a money manager: Education:  In addition [...]

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Options Trading on the OEX as a Work at Home Job

For people interested in the stock market, day trading may be a viable way to make a living from home.  One of the ways to increase the potential returns (and potential loses) while using less working capital in day trading is to focus on options. An option is only the right to buy or sell [...]

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How to open a US bank account as a Canadian

Benefit from the ability to write US checks on US accounts. Canadians can easily open US dollar accounts in selected US banks. Instructions Things You’ll Need Canadian Passport Canadian Drivers License or ID Card US$ to put in the account Assemble your documents. You will need to prove your identity, citizenship and residency. Your passport [...]

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How to Invest in Cemetery Plots for Profit

Scenic Cemetery is Prime Real Estate Would you pay $4.6 million to be buried above Marilyn Monroe? It’s available and the price is all about location. (see Resources section below) Cemetery Plots are a unique class of real estate to invest in. The price is low compared to traditional real estate investments and the profits [...]

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How to Teach Your Children to Invest in Precious Metals

  If you believe in hard money, than you will want to teach your children the importance of investing and saving for the future. Money lessons are easy to master if you make them fun, and who is not attracted to shiny silver and gold? Start your children young by exposing them to silver and [...]

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How to Use Forex in a Passive Income Strategy

Many people who like to travel seek to execute a successful passive income strategy to free them from their desk and allow them to see the world.  Running an internet business, especially one that largely runs itself, is very liberating.  (Tim Farris of Four Hour Work Week fame calls this Lifestyle Design). One popular strategy advocated [...]

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Covered Calls: A Passive Income Strategy

You can actually make money on the stocks you already own through a strategy called covered calls. Many investors have never heard of covered calls and of those that have heard of covered calls, many don’t understand the strategy or have the tools to execute the covered call strategy successfully.  Ignorance is costing you money [...]

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Ways to Save Money

Saving money is definitely easier than making more money, but not as exciting.  Occasionally I’ve blogged about saving money with posts like these: Attacking the Other Side: Passive Expenses Eliminate Passive Expenses Caused by Your Family However, today I’m pointing you to a great post  entitled 101 Ways to Save Money on a good investment blog Monevator.com Tips [...]

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Interview with Silver Bullion Producer Market Harmony

Bullion producer and refinery service provider Market Harmony LLC blends creating physical precious metal and copper bullion products with an online sales strategy focused on viral marketing and social media. In this post, I am very pleased to present an interview with Michael Arvay, the owner of Market Harmony.    As I’ve gotten to know Michael over [...]

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Investing For Passive Dividend Income

For many years I’ve been a big fan of investing for dividend income.  I find that many stocks paying dividends are more stable, conservatively run companies.  The fact the company actually pays shareholders actual cash shows management respects the ownership that funded the business. The downsides to dividend investing? 1.  It takes money to make money with [...]

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Invest in Real Estate – A Little at Time

While looking around for interesting ideas I came across an article about Malaysians investing in cemetery lots as a hedge against inflation and for profit.  Intrigued, I did some more research and discovered there is a very quiet but very active industry of unused cemetery plot investors. Yes, it sounds a little crazy but think about [...]

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