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Property Construction; How do you finish on time?

Here’s a tip from a master of the construction and property business.  It’s one of his techniques for completing construction projects on-time. It’s very simple but apparently highly effective.  It incentivizes the builder, and avoids arguments. I got this tip from a book.  A book I’d highly recomend to any property investor.  It contains a lot more nuggets […]

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Which is Better … Shares or Property?

Shares (stocks) or property … which is better? That’s been a loaded question for as long as there’s been shares and property.  So, we’re talking … a long time! Now, that we’ve got the question out in the open, let’s look at it.  Let’s analyze it, let’s see if we can do something with it. […]

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Don’t buy that house!

“Oh, you don’t want to buy that home.  It’s in a low lying area and is subject to flooding.  And, it’s got a lot of other problems.  Stay away from that one.”  The agent explained to me as if she’d written it down word for word. We’d just driven by the house and I mentioned […]

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Follow the money; find the bias …

I’ve got several books on the boil right now; reading different ideas about property investing and finding out there’s some wide varying advice. So, why all the variation? Why does one guy say “Do this!” and the next guy says “Don’t do it!”? What’s the underlying reason? Is it because one guy is more of […]

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How do you get inflation to work for you?

I mostly hear people talk about inflation as a bad thing.  Rarely do I hear people say they’re excited about it. But, I came across an article that puts a different twist on the word inflation.  The article talks about how inflation can be a good thing.  How it can be used to make you […]

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