Diversify Investments

Diversify Investments Before The Crash

Diversify investments is one of the fundamental principles of long term investing. If you have a large retirement account invested in the stock market, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, bonds, or tax deferred investments, you probably have made adjustments to your retirement portfolio as you seek to diversify investments and keep up with changes in the

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Is My Retirement Account Safe So I Can Move to Sequim?

Many believe that their retirement account is their life blood, especially when it comes to retiring in Sequim and buying a home, right? There are many excellent registered financial advisers, and I hope you have one, but what do they all say when the stock market starts to crash? They don’t warn you to sell.

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Flip or Flop Vegas with Marunde

Flip or Flop Vegas is a very popular HDTV show. It’s almost surprising how many people from all walks of life across America are passionate fans of these house flipping shows. Flip or Flop Vegas is the last edition of young couples buying trashed houses, remodeling them, and then flipping them to buyers in the shortest

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Gold v Real Estate and Investing

Gold v Real Estate is not really much of a competition since late in 2011. In 2011 Gold was up to $1,889 an ounce, and today gold is $1,089 an ounce. This chart shows that gold has dropped $800 per ounce. Ouch! That’s a 42% loss. And this has all happened in a time when

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Is It a Good Idea to Invest in Rental Properties?

Is investing in rental properties a good idea in the Sequim or Port Angeles area? A gentleman was wisely planning for his retirement years, and he knew that rental properties could be a good source of income. My advice to him might surprise you. Rental Properties – A Good or Bad Idea? He asked about older rental properties. Why would

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Why Real Estate Beats Gold and Stocks

Real estate beats gold and stocks as a long term investment at this point in history. There have been other times when that was reversed, but I believe gold and stocks are far less secure and far more risky than real estate right now. Here’s an interesting picture. In August of 2011 Gold was $1,889

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Gold or Real Estate?

Right now, today, if you were asked how you want to invest your retirement account and you only had two choices–gold or real estate, which would you choose?  Here’s a gold chart for 2011 up to December 20th.  We have been bombarded for months now with “buy gold” commercials.  The “buy gold” mantra has reached

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Is investing in real estate in Port Angeles wise now?

Question:   Chuck, I’ve been looking at a few areas to invest in a single family home, not to live in for myself but as a rental.   I might want to use it part of the year as a getaway for myself and my family, too.   Port Angeles has some great prices and

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Should I Invest in Real Estate Notes?

Question:   Hi Chuck,   I am considering entering the world of real estate commercial note buying, and I want to make sure I have all the information I can find prior to making the move.   I heard of the field from Russ Dalbey, of Colorado.   What is your opinion of the field

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Real Estate Investors Struggle to Find a Good Deal

Real estate investors are scooping up the deals and making millions.   Right?   Wrong!   I met with an investor the day before the Thanksgiving holiday, and he   was ready, willing, and able.   Like the vast majority of real estate investors     around the country right now, he is having trouble

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Paper Transactions in Real Estate

You can invest in real estate without owning any real estate.  For example, You can buy notes (secured by a deed of trust) at a discount, or You can buy a Real Estate Contract, aka Land Contract, at a discount. You can buy an Option to Purchase property and either exercise it or assign it

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Sequim Real Estate Sales Slow Down

In a free enterprise system, markets go up and markets go down. This is the cycle. Out here in Washington state, especially in King and Pierce Counties, and even here in Clallam County on the Olympic Peninsula, in 2005 homes and land sold quickly at greatly appreciated prices. In rapid appreciation, builders over build, and

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