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When I decided to leave my corporate job years ago, I was terrified. I liked the steady paycheck, the predictable routine, my benefits package, and my coworkers. Jumping ship into the great [...]

Queens has always been my favorite affordable alternative to investing in Manhattan real estate. But, now more than ever, investing in some of the up and coming neighborhoods in Queens looks [...]

Integrating into civilian life is the final difficult mission in the careers of all military personnel. After my time in the service, I found that transition to be even harder for [...]

Q: How can you tell if someone’s running the Milwaukee Marathon? A: Don’t worry, they’ll tell you. My running partners and I all know the truth of this joke well. Runners are single-minded in [...]

After I helped Olivia decide whether she should buy investment property or not, our attention briefly turned to the kids. We were each picking up our little ones from daycare, which is how we [...]

About a week ago or so, my sister, Angela, asked me how to buy a house at auction in Florida. She’d been wanting to invest in single-family homes ever since she saw how successful I’d gotten [...]

Find me one person under the age of 10 who doesn’t utilize some type of computing device. I’m even hard-pressed to think of one of my 89-year-old mom’s friends who doesn’t own a smartphone or a [...]

Stereotypes are like old habits, they die hard. It didn’t come as a surprise, then, that my old man was up in arms during a recent family gathering when my niece mentioned that she was moving to [...]

Believe it or not, I almost became a lawyer. And, it was while studying law at Indiana University’s McKinney Law School that I met one of my now closest friends, Jacob. Of course, that was many [...]