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Author Archives: Bruce Young
Should I Rent or Buy?
For those of you who follow my recent posts, you are probably aware that my wife and I are re-locating to another state; in fact as I write this the movers are boxing up our possessions and will be loading … Continue reading
Posted in Buying a Home, Trainer
Tagged buying a home, housing market, mortgage rates, neighborhood, relocating, renting
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How Can My Avatar Help My Retirement?
I love delving into different financial articles because, if nothing else, it provides me with new educational tools I can utilize in workshops and one-on-one conversations. But the other thing it provides me is entertainment. It is rare that an … Continue reading
How Do I Decide Which Condominium to Buy?
I was reading something the other day about how moving is one of the most stressful things in life. Well whoever wrote that must have known a thing or two because my wife and I are going through the process … Continue reading
Posted in Buying a Home, Financial Planning, Trainer
Tagged association fees, condominium, condos, hoa, special assessments
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How Do I Know My Donation is Getting Where I Want it to Go?
With the unfortunate events that have befallen most recently Japan and Haiti a year ago, many people are choosing to dig deep in their pockets to donate cash to help in whatever way they can. The reasons why we donate … Continue reading
Financial Planning: When a Spouse Passes – How to Stay Out of the Dark
Well you knew I would be broaching this topic at some point. In many years of financial planning I have seen numerous situations which made me sad, and which inevitably led to me becoming a financial educator. Some of the … Continue reading
Should I Pay Down My Debt or Save More for the Future?
There are questions in life where sometimes the best answer is “it depends” (how many times did we hear that when we were growing up?). This is one of those questions, but I do have some solid guidelines that can … Continue reading
Is a Reverse Mortgage Right for Me?
It seems that every retirement planning workshop I do lately, this question rears its head. Used to be not too long ago many people didn’t know what a reverse mortgage even was (Quick definition of a Reverse Mortgage: A special … Continue reading
I Just Bought My First Investment Property, What Should I Watch Out For?
Well this blog closes out my “series” on investment property and I find it fitting that I share some of the frustrations, missteps as well as some of the successes we have encountered in our first investment deal. Now I … Continue reading
Posted in Advanced Investing, Trainer
Tagged investment deal, investment property, learning experience, rental property
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What and When to Buy – How We Decided to Purchase Our Rental Property
The past couple weeks have been a flashback in time for me as I have been providing some basic general principles regarding the purchase of investment property. What I’d like to do this week is to tell you a story … Continue reading
So You’ve Decided to Buy Investment Property, Great! Now How Do You Decide Which Property to Buy?
Last week I tackled the question of what to consider before buying investment property and whether or not it could be right for YOU. You may also recall that I stated that the actual property to buy was not necessarily … Continue reading
