King Solomon believed that wisdom is essential for everyone, young and old – and prudence is a virtue that knows no age limits. The great King might not be surprised, then, to see that today’s...
rental real estate
A Time for Landlords: Today’s Hot Rental Market
As Ecclesiastes 3.2 and related verses tell us, there’s a time and a purpose for everything under heaven. Investors know this all too well – repeated cycles of ups and downs that sometimes work to...
A Nation of Renters? Not Necessarily
Among the wise words of King Solomon’s proverbs are many exhortations aimed at young people, urging them to behave prudently, listen to the wisdom of their elders, and lay the groundwork or a...
The Door of Opportunity
To those who have learned how to read the economic trends, it has been painfully obvious for quite some time that significant inflation is on the horizon. Empowered Investor Network has long supported a strategy of fighting inflation through rental real estate that is financed with fixed-rate debt. The advantage of this strategy is that the debt payments will stay the same throughout the inflationary period as prices are pushed higher. While this is happening, the rents paid by the tenants will be consistently increasing as the scourge of inflation is eroding the value of the dollars that are being used to repay the mortgage.