homeschooling

We are a homeschooling family. Because of so many of my “politically incorrect” views, I have no confidence in the current education system to know what is right or wrong for my children. The public-school system has an agenda, and that agenda is to turn our children into “good citizens of a humanistic world”; a…

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regrets

At the time of my first attempted investment property acquisition, we had lived in a townhouse that I had purchased twelve years earlier, just after escaping from Iraqi occupied Kuwait (that’s a story for another time!). I bought that townhouse for $172k and had dreams of paying off the mortgage quickly, but twelve years later,…

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In early 2010, while still engaged in completing my 4-year plus rehab project of the log cabin and seriously considering an entrepreneurial career change, I was approached by a friend who was then (and still is) successfully engaged in high-end custom home building in southern FL. He inquired as to my interest in becoming an…

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college funding

Today the average student graduates with $30,0001 in student loan debt.  That is about 10% of the average American mortgage debt ($309,2002), which is the amount that a home buyer would generally want to apply as a down payment. The average graduating college student begins their first job at a salary of $50,0003.  The average monthly…

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My first real estate investment deal followed about sixteen years of way too much thinking about it, and zero years of educating myself on how to do it properly. When I was in college during the early 1980s, I read Robert Allen’s best-selling book about real estate investing, “Nothing Down”. By the end of the…

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