If you have considered getting your green card through investment, otherwise known as the eb5 visa, you have several decisions to make. One of them is whether you will choose to use the eb5 direct route by creating your own business, or if you will opt for a regional center instead. Learning the drawbacks of the direct pathway may help you decide.Having a successful business is probably your dream. In fact, many people, both immigrants and U.S....more
Since there are risks in investing in most cases, you need to have an investment strategy prepared before you get your money to work for you. You need a winning strategy to win much like in any game where the results are unknown until the final score. Much like in investing, you will need a winning strategy to be successful. A good investment strategy will help you achieve your goals in more ways than one.Having a plan on how to invest your money...more
There are only a handful of beginning investors who can become successful. A certain degree of skill is needed in investing in every investment choices and transactions you make. Not all investments have a good return for your money and there is a great risk of losing most of your money in most investments. Having researched and learned everything about investing is not enough, you should also have a specific goal that you want to achieve. What do want to accomplish with your investments? Are you planning for a retirement? Buying a home perhaps? Think about what you want to accomplish with your investments before you call a broker and start investing your cash. Having a goal in mind will not only make you ahead of other beginners, it will also help you make good decisions as you make and choose your investments.If you think you can be rich overnight after you invested all your savings, you better wake up. Those kind of thing rarely happens and to very few people. It is better to make your investments grow slowly through time. If you want to get rich quickly, you can learn about high yield short-term investing to help you reach that goal before you start.Get the help of a financial...more
You will probably see a lot of advertisements for regional centers when you are start looking for one. Something interesting to note is that some of the top centers have few advertisements. This is because they are usually full and do not have any room for new investors. Of course, fewer ads means it might be more difficult to find the center, so...more
The crash of the housing market has opened the doors for many investors. Florida is one of the hardest hit states for foreclosures and unemployment. The Feds have bought back mortgages and interest rates have steadily dropped. What does this mean for the average investor and how can one find Florida investment properties?Florida investment property...more
2 Investment Bubbles Ready To Pop! Copyright (c) 2010 Brian FrickeIn the early 2000's, we had the technology bubble. More recently, we had the real estate bubble. Now, I see two new bubbles that may be developing - and may be putting your nest egg at risk. I'm talking about bonds and gold.The reason I won't be surprised if there ends up being a bubble in bonds is that I just saw a statistic stating that year to date close to $150 billion dollars has gone into bond mutual funds. And in the same time period, over $50 billion dollars have been taken out of stock-oriented mutual funds. If my math is correct, that's about $100 billion dollars that has flown from money market accounts into bond mutual funds.When you think about it, that's the herd mentality in action. After all, the real estate bubble was at its peak when it seemed like everybody was jumping into real estate, with "flip this house" and "preconstruction condos" and "flip the contract" and all that craziness. When I see a huge migration of money into a particular area, to me, that means a bubble may be forming. This could be the case with bonds.Interest rates are at historical lows. Bonds go down in market value...more
When looking for a property for sale, there are many different things that you have to take into consideration. Money is of course the biggest aspect that anyone looks at when they are buying a home or even selling one for that matter. Buying a home...more
Investment Property: What is an REO? The term REO has been bandied about in publications concerning property sales, on the assumption that the reader knows what REO means. Here is a brief explanation of REO, so you, as a prospective...more
Finding a bargain investment property on paper is only half of the process of property investment. The other half of real estate investing is going down to the property to examine the real estate investment property physically for defects either in...more
If you wish to enter the United States and have the best chance at staying for good, the eb5 visa could be for you. Often referred to as the investment green card, this program requires a business plan, a $1 million investment, and the creation of at...more
When investment options are many, spreading the money is considered safe, less risky, and profitable by a major section of investors. Again it is spreading in one particular segment such as the shares market that many investors focus on. In such a...more
Investment Portfolios Investment Portfolios Since investors like to increase their expected wealth and like to avoid risk or uncertainty, it is possible to imagine different combinations of expected gain and risk which are valued equally by...more