“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” -Yogi Berra The residential real estate market is on fire. No doubt. We are seeing this across the board from single-family homes to massive apartment complexes. I’m not an expert on single-family home values. I don’t understand them as they are not rooted in cap rates […]

Personal finance is personal. However, there is a type of conventional financial wisdom that leads us to believe that there is one right way of doing things.  That becomes very confusing to people…especially in our alternative investment world. After all, financial advisors are the experts, right?  In reality, financial advisors are usually most interested in […]

When I first read The Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki (the purple pill), I was fascinated by the concept of using earned income to produce streams of passive income, that would eventually become a great river that would replace ones earned income all together. That concept is what I now call Wealth 1.0. You […]

There is a saying, “People grossly over-estimate what they can accomplish in a year and grossly under-estimate what they can accomplish over five years.” As I write this to you on my 48th birthday (September 8th), I look back on the last 5 years and it’s hard to argue the point. Five years ago, this […]

As a flaming entrepreneur I had a serious problem when I was a young man: Shiny Object Syndrome. After surgical residency, I had a couple of major business successes. Having never failed in business before, I kept pushing the limits. It wasn’t about the money back then. You see, natural entrepreneurs like me enjoy money—no […]

Henry Ford once said, “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right”. The older I get, the more I am convinced that he was right! I believe that mindset is the single most important element to success in life—be it financial or otherwise. Mindset is a broad term but the way I […]