Midwest

When Victor decided to start investing on the side in the hopes of supplementing the income he received from United Airlines, he called me up to ask where he could find cheap investment property. [...]

I’m glad my kid says he wants to be like me. But often enough, I wish I were more like him. For instance, he makes friends without even seeming to try. I bring him to the playground, set him [...]

Last spring, I took a visiting niece to a ballgame at Miller Park. It was one of those typically cold spring days here in Milwaukee and she commented on how lucky we were to have a stadium that [...]

Not too long ago, a friend of mine met me for lunch at a park in Ann Arbor. I brought a sandwich from Zingermans, and he picked up his from a gas station. He spent the first minute crowing about [...]

There’s something straightforward about Craigslist. The bare-bones format, the anonymity, the strange and wonderful oddities you discover. You can learn a lot about a community by seeing just [...]

I recently hired a contractor I found online here in Toledo. He’s great—he knows the city and has that special Toledo hard-work ethic. He’s one of the best electricians I’ve ever met. But, he [...]

A friend of mine was recently visiting to do some fishing and stayed at my Wisconsin cabin north of Wausau. Being a good friend, I decided to take a few days off and do some fishing, too. The [...]

I was having dinner with a friend down by the river recently and a good conversation about real estate investing started up. At one point, he asked me what I needed. I told him the basics: the [...]

As a professional real estate investor for several years, I’m often asked by friends and family to weigh in on this opportunity or that opportunity to supposedly strike it rich in real estate. [...]