The Real Estate Blog with a Twist

Are people fleeing your state or moving in?  What is your overall tax burden compared to the other 49 states?  What is your state’s economic outlook based on 15 variables that are highly influenced by your state legislature?  Those questions, and a few more, are...

9 events, 3 competitors, 1 concussion If you read my email a few weeks ago, I told you about how I hit my back against the wall playing racquetball and had to go to the emergency room for what I thought was a stroke!  (No worries, it ended up being a concussion). ...

We’re looking for a partner/business development consultant to help us build our senior assisted living business.  This is not a very structured position and can partly be what you make it.  We are really looking for a go-getter who wants to take charge and run this...

I don’t normally send out YouTube videos to watch, but when I do, they are funny.  This post is nothing but fun and will put a smile on your face.  My friend Tom Baker sent me this video of a hilarious skit from Saturday Night Live about the use of Amazon’s “Alexa.”...

I recently had to visit the emergency room here in Reno.  I was lightheaded, I had a foggy brain and I thought I might have had a stroke.  I had met with some investors at 10:00 that morning, and, during the meeting, I couldn’t remember the name of our fund Guardian....

This doesn’t happen often, but the three big credit bureaus have agreed to change the rules as to how your credit score is, well…scored.  Like any other large established business, they are slow to change.  But, they are finally making some improvements that will...

Have you ever looked at a compounding chart?  I was fortunate enough to be handed a compounding chart when I was 20 years old by a stock broker at Dean Witter.  It really opened my eyes.  Below is a compounding chart that I made for my youngest child when he was 9...

What do you get when you take six friends and go for a ride in a B-17 Bomber?  A whole lot of fun and a mini history lesson! We had the fortunate opportunity to go fly in one of just two B-17 Bombers that have been restored and are allowed to fly around with people in...

This article by Tom Henderson is so spot on, so I wanted to share it with you today.  This is the part that scares me about the government: both sides seem to have forgotten about the importance of free markets.  The government is not here to help, they are here to...

This blog is more for fun than anything.  Here are 18 maps showing different ways the world breaks down.  If you ever wondered in what countries people drive on the left side of the road, where to get Big Macs, who uses the metric system, or even how many countries...

I would like to share an article with you that appeared in Bloomberg recently about flipping the switch on the world’s biggest factory to date, the Tesla gigafactory.  The building’s location was so affectionately referred to as the “scrubland outside of Reno, NV.” ...

A few weeks ago, I sent out an article sharing how Verne Harnish lost $400,000 on a wire scam.  Literally-- POOF -- $400,000 of his hard earned money was gone.  Here is a link to that previous article in case you missed it: Defrauded out of $400,000 I wanted to share...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was recently ruled as having an illegal structure by the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.  The court wrote in its decision: “Indeed, other than the President, the Director of the CFPB is the single most powerful official...

We compared financing packages the other day for a senior assisted living property we are considering buying.  Here are our options: How do we choose?  They both have fixed interest rates for 15 years, and both are due in 15 years.  The interest rates are slightly...

I am no expert on the stock market. In fact, I don’t have a dollar in it as of today. I lost faith in it over 5 years ago -- but that is not why I am sending this out. I am sharing it as a purely informational piece, so you can do with it whatever you like. I get...

“In the months I was writing this, the media, driven by Occupy Wall Street, became obsessed with the discussion of the 1% vs. the 99%, but neither the Occupy spokespersons nor the media dealt with the perspective of behavioral causes. Actually, there is an ‘Income and...