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Archive for March, 2007

What Are NINJA Loans?

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in Real Estate, housing bubble | 2 Comments »

I was listening to the radio yesterday and I was listening to an investment show. The announcer was talking about mortgages and I heard him mention a NINJA loan. It stands ... Read more..

Why Use Seller Financing?

Thursday, March 29th, 2007 Posted in Real Estate, Revenue Streams | No Comments »

Here's an example of a buyer using seller financing to purchase a property. The buyer, a real estate investor, bought a cabin in a sparsely populated place. Recognizing that the ... Read more..

New Star Wars Stamps Released Today

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 6 Comments »

USPS just released a sheet of 15 Star Wars Stamps. You can check out the website USPS Jedi Master for more details.You also get to vote on your favorite stamps ... Read more..

Housing Numbers Disappoint

Monday, March 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sales of new U.S. homes declined for the second consecutive month in February, and the nation's supply of unsold homes continued to rise, an indication that the weak housing market ... Read more..

Got A Free IPOD

Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TDAmeritrade had a promotion sometime back. If you open an account and put a certain amount of money into it, they'd give you a free Ipod. I had already ... Read more..

Site Review: Earners Blog

Saturday, March 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I've been writing about various ways to earn money and one of them is monetizing your blog. I've come across several sites, whose main focus is to earn money from ... Read more..

Top 10 Reasons Why You’re Not Rich

Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Thestreet.com has a good article on Why you're not rich.Here's the summary:You Care What Your Neighbors ThinkYou Aren't PatientYou Have Bad HabitsYou Have No GoalsYou Haven't PreparedYou Try to Make ... Read more..

How To Become A Millionaire

Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Short simple steps to attain wealth.read more | digg story Check out my bookstore. [All content is copyright of Adventures In Money Making] Read more..

CountryWide Insiders Dumping Stock Like Its Going Out Of Style!

Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

When the subprime mortgage collapse gathered speed two weeks ago, Eric Sieracki at Countrywide Financial (CFC - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr - Rating) sought to calm his investors' nerves."This ... Read more..

Link Love

Monday, March 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I go through my site logs about once or twice a week and I see there's a lot of traffic. From various blogs, a lot of which I read whenever ... Read more..

Self Storage Seminar

Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Real Estate | 5 Comments »

Spent 6 hours this weekend at a self-storage mini-seminar. The speaker, Cory Donaldson was pretty good. He started buying real estate 15 years ago. He bought a duplex, then a ... Read more..

Blogging For Money {Sponsored Post}

Saturday, March 17th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I've been talking about people who blog for money. Well I've been making some money off advertising at the bottom of my blog. Well I've been paid to post this ... Read more..

Invest In Porn - Part 2

Thursday, March 15th, 2007 Posted in alternate investments | 3 Comments »

I had an afternoon lunch meeting with an LA business owner. He was trying to raise money for his "Audio Erotica" business. He figured that audio books were growing at ... Read more..

Time To Cry Uncle

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in WCI | No Comments »

I covered my puts on WCI today. Carl Icahn put in a bid for $22 a share when it was trading at $19.80 yesterday. So in today's market where every ... Read more..

Blogging Yourself To Financial Freedom

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Revenue Streams, alternate investments, personal finance | 2 Comments »

Making Our Way has a great post on how people think they can start a personal finance blog and expect to make enough money out of it that they can ... Read more..

Japanese Investments

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 Posted in Real Estate | 1 Comment »

I think the yen and the Japanese real estate markets are undervalued and I've invested a little bit in both. But the strategies I've employed (opening an account with an ... Read more..

No More 100% Financing On Home Loans

Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in Economy | No Comments »

Countrywide has announced that beginning 12 March 2007, it will no longer be offering 100% financing to home borrowers. This follows its announcement earlier this month that delinquencies among non-sub-prime ... Read more..

Mint Makes A Mistake

Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The mint made an estimated 50,000 new $1 dollar Washington dollars without the "In God We Trust" inscribed along the rim. Sharp eyed coin collectors have been selling them on ... Read more..

Be Like Slim

Sunday, March 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Mexican telecomm Mogul Carlos Slim Helu added $19 billion to his fortune in 2006. His gain, placing him at No. 3 on the billionaire's list with $49 billion, was the ... Read more..

Sub-prime Lenders Down Again

Friday, March 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Sub-prime lenders LEND, NFI,NEW were down again today, dropping between 3 and 17%. Wish I had shorted some of the sub-prime lenders instead of WCI!I think this is just the ... Read more..