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My Road to Becoming a Landlord

February 29, 2016 By ESI 17 Comments

Landlord tenancy agreement

I've talked a few times about the fact that I own rental real estate. Today I want to share with you how I got started in it several years ago. Basketball Connection It all started several years ago when my son began playing basketball. A couple years into the process, a new family joined the team. Their sons had never played basketball, but they were both over 6 feet tall … [Read more...]

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My Real Estate Objectives and Strategy

February 22, 2016 By ESI 18 Comments

Colorful plastic model monopoly houses

As I mentioned in Invest Overview: Fueling Your Net Worth and My Plan for Total Financial Freedom (AKA My Retirement Plan), real estate is a key part of both my investment and financial freedom plans. In a future post I'll share details and the financial performance of my rental properties. Before I do that, I wanted to highlight my objectives for investing in rental real … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Invest, Real Estate

My Entry into Peer-to-Peer Lending

February 18, 2016 By ESI 27 Comments

Lend and borrow keys on keyboard

As I mentioned in an earlier post, peer-to-peer lending (P2P) is part of my financial freedom/retirement plan because it allows me to diversify my investments while earning 6%+ on my money. But I didn't know much about P2P. Late last year I decided I needed to change that. FYI, I actually wanted to try P2P many years ago but I lived in a state that didn't allow you to … [Read more...]

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The Best Way to Maximize Your Investment Return

February 15, 2016 By ESI 16 Comments

US Liberty silver dollars

In both Why Another Financial Website? and How to Measure and Track Your Wealth I mentioned how the financial media often doesn't understand financial principles (which is evident because of the terminology they use) and thus give out incorrect information. Well, they do many Americans a similar disservice when they focus on return rate to the exclusion of other investing … [Read more...]

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Dividend Stock Investing as a Source of Passive Income

January 28, 2016 By ESI 29 Comments

Stacks of coins with little plants growing from top

Last week I gave my initial thoughts on dividend investing. I thought it would be fun to follow that post with the story of someone actually doing it. This is a guest post from ESI reader (and a friend of mine) Mike Hunt. I asked Mike to share a bit of his personal financial situation and then share his strategy and results in dividend investing. Enjoy! ESI Meet Mike Hunt At … [Read more...]

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Why I Panicked When the Stock Market Dropped

January 24, 2016 By ESI 13 Comments

Stock market crash newspaper headline

I have seen numerous articles on the recent stock market decline. The news media is in a frenzy claiming the end of the world is near, and that we're all going to lose everything by the time it's over. It's what much of the media does best: take an issue and sensationalize it to the point of terror. Or at least that's what they like to do. As you have probably guessed, … [Read more...]

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Dividend Investing Basics

January 21, 2016 By ESI 14 Comments

Dividend investing word cloud

As I noted in My Plan for Total Financial Freedom, I'd like to have dividend investing as part of my retirement plan. But I don't know much about it. Today I'll share what I've learned so far on my journey into dividend investing. The Concept From what I understand, proponents of dividend investing tout it as working as follows: Buy stocks of good quality companies … [Read more...]

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Invest Overview: Fueling Your Net Worth

January 3, 2016 By ESI 26 Comments

Man touching investment graph going up

Let's discuss the third step to wealth, the "I" in "ESI Money." As noted in the explanation of the site's meaning , the "I" stands for "Invest." (Just to keep everyone up to speed, earn and save are the other two.) Investing is the step that super-charges your net worth and opens the door to high levels of wealth. It does this by taking the cash flow generated by the … [Read more...]

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