Latest Blog Articles
How First Responders Can Rescue The ...
First responders are the first to arrive at the scene, whatever the scene may be. Jason Hartman of Platinum Properties Investment Network knows that people employed in medical, rescue, police, and military fields show up when people need rescuing. But there's an encroaching issue that first responders...
Interest Rates 2015: Defying Expec ...
For the past year or more, experts in finance and real estate have watched the movement of interest rates with a wary eye. Now, as a new year opens, those experts are weighing in with predictions about what investors can expect in the coming months- and years. And they’re basing their predictions on...
Changing Demographics Shape Rental ...
Rental real estate isn’t what it used to be – and for investors hoping to build wealth through investment property, that’s a good thing. Changing social, cultural and economic trends are creating some surprising new groups of long term tenants with needs and interests that create both opportunities...
Latest Podcast Episodes
HI 43 – Beyond Phishing –No ...
Remember phishing? Now there’s smishing, a new kind of electronic identity theft targeting uses of smartphones and tablets. But although the venue may be new, these scammers are simply adapting the same old tried and true tactics that con artists used to use on the telephone.
In those old days,...
HI 42 – The Bitcoin Starts a ...
How did the FBI end up with over $3 million in Bitcoins? How did the virtual currency become the medium of choice for transactions on the cybernarcotics site Silk Road? And more important, perhaps – why should we care? The saga of the world’s first digital money continues with the Bitcoin’s...
HI 41 – The Truth Behind Reti ...
Lists of retirement “myths” – erroneous beliefs about planning for retirement – pop up fairly regularly in financial news. Though each list offers a different number of myths to worry about – five, seven or even ten or more – the goal is the same: to increase awareness about the pitfalls...