If you’ve been reading my stuff here you may not know that for some time I’ve been doing cigar reviews. Why have I not posted any of them here? Yeah great question. But today that changes. While I do have my favorites, I also like to experiment on occasion and try a cigar I haven’t smoked before. I plan to bring you reviews of both going forward. To start I’m going to review a…
Author: Dennis Fassett
I'm pleased to report that after multiple decades of hard-headed stubbornness, I've finally figured out that all work and no play makes Johnny a dull boy. So I've taken it upon myself to convert my wife and now adult(ish) kids into a roving band of merry adventurers.
From horseback riding in Monument Valley to ocean kayaking in Acadia - all of our exploits have earned the coveted "epic" label from the younguns.
I'll tell you about them - and also about the other "adventures" I'm having in my real estate investing business.
The Truth About Those $500 Detroit Houses
I saw a piece in Yahoo News about this and I wanted to pass it along. I get at least a couple of calls every month from out of state folks asking about these. The article does a good job in explaining just why a $500 house isn’t the bargain that people think it is. Here it is… Tempted by Detroit’s $500 Properties? 5 Things to Know By Beth j. Harpaz, Associated Press - March 11, 2015…
Incredible Productivity System: Bullet Journal
Starting with my first Franklin Planner in 1995, I have been engaged in a seemingly endless quest to develop the perfect productivity and organizational system. The Franklin system was truly spectacular. I was working in Silicon Valley at the time, and taking the introductory class from a real FP trainer was required after you got hired. It didn’t take long to see why. The class was two full days long, and it laid out a simple…
Smart Investment Money Goes for Real Estate
I found a great article by Denis Kleinfeld on the Moneynews.com website that talked about real estate as an investment vehicle and I wanted to pass it along. Here’s the piece: I know that many people are unhappy with the way their money managers have been handling their investment portfolio. This becomes readily apparent to me every time I sit in one of those meetings between the client and their investment advisers. The meeting pattern…
The Landlord Suicide Squeeze
The suicide squeeze is one of the most exciting plays in baseball. It happens when there’s a runner on third who takes off toward home when the pitcher starts his motion, expecting the batter to make some sort of contact with the ball and put it in play, thus scoring a run. Except for trying to steal home outright it’s also the riskiest play in baseball. I was with a couple of buddies this afternoon…
Stock Market is Now DOWN for the Year. What’s in YOUR Wallet?
It has been a pretty good ride, hasn’t it? I mean, since the dark days of the “great recession†when the DOW bottomed out at 6443.27 on March 6, 2009, the market has gone pretty much straight up. Remember those guys in the office that spent all day with a browser window open to their E-Trade accounts so they could “trade†their mutual funds? They were all over the place before the DOW tanked. They…