LIVING OFF DIVIDENDS & PASSIVE INCOME

Archive for February, 2008

How Paypal Condones Fraudulent Sellers

Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Random, Rants | 8 Comments »

Recently someone of Digital Point Forums was selling the code for a video blog. I thought I'd give it a shot. I sent him the money via Paypal and he ... Read more..

Should You Punish Greed and Stupidity?

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 Posted in personal finance | 19 Comments »

According to Reuters: A New York man who discovered that millions of dollars had mysteriously appeared in his bank account, and withdrew more than $2 million, has been arrested on charges ... Read more..

January’s Dividend Income & How The Subprime Mess Has Affected Me.

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008 Posted in Passive Income | 3 Comments »

I've been traveling for the past month so this post is a little late. I had already posted my online income which was $778. I finally got a chance to ... Read more..

A Look At Indian Taxes

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Random | No Comments »

India is a land of many contradictions. And I don't mean in a good way. One of the most prominent examples is the government-sponsored discrimination. India proudly assets itself as ... Read more..

10 Reasons Why Gold Should Break $1000 This Year

Monday, February 18th, 2008 Posted in Gold/Silver | 11 Comments »

Today's guest post comes from Bruce, CEO of Superior Gold and includes a free silver coin! For many years I was a successful real estate investor. However, I realized that ... Read more..

Jim Rogers Gives His Take On The Economy.

Friday, February 15th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Global Economy | 2 Comments »

I always like it when he rips into Ben Bernanke! Mr Rogers says that job of Federal Reserve is NOT to bail out a few financial institutions and the stock ... Read more..

Happy Valentine’s Day

Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Random | 2 Comments »

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! It also happens to be my birthday and since I haven't been in India on my birthday for over a decade, I thought I'd celebrate in style ... Read more..

Can You Retire On Less Than $3,000 A Month?

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in personal finance | 43 Comments »

Ever wondered if you could retire on $3,000 a month? Well the answer is "Yes!". Not only that, you might be able to get by on only $2,000 a month! Of ... Read more..

Supplement Your Adsense Revenue!

Monday, February 11th, 2008 Posted in Earn Money Online, Passive Income | 9 Comments »

I started using Kontera's pay-per-click (PPC) contextual advertising program in December. Last month I made $92.11 from it. The revenue is directly proportional to the traffic and also is also ... Read more..

Interest-Only Loans and Annual Refinances

Sunday, February 10th, 2008 Posted in Real Estate, personal finance | 1 Comment »

A few of my friends who own homes got into the habit of getting interest-only loans and refinancing them every year. Apparently there was some math that "made it cheaper" ... Read more..

After Sub-prime, Is Commercial Property Next?

Saturday, February 9th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Investing, REITs, Real Estate, Stocks, housing bubble | 3 Comments »

Based on my own experiences of being allowed to borrow 40 times my annual income to purchase investment property, I knew the real estate party was going to end badly ... Read more..

Forclosure In The Neighborhood

Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Real Estate, housing bubble | 1 Comment »

Since I've been a homowner, landlord and tenant in my neighborhood for the past 6 years, I follow the real estate market pretty closely. I recently noticed that there was ... Read more..

Good News For Canroys?

Friday, February 8th, 2008 Posted in Canroys | 5 Comments »

I'm a big fan of Canadian Royalty Trusts, also called Canadian Income Trusts or Canroys. But lately, they have been under a lot of selling pressure. Coupled with the sell-off ... Read more..

Residential Housing To Drop Another 25%

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Economy, Real Estate, housing bubble | 3 Comments »

Since 2005, I've been saying that San Diego home prices are way overpriced and are due for a 40-45% correction. The homes are so far out-of-whack thats it's 30-50% cheaper ... Read more..

January’s Online Income Grows 36.92%

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in Earn Money Online, Passive Income | 10 Comments »

Since I'm still in India, I'm not really sure what some of my income checks are for the month of January. But I do know my online income, so I ... Read more..

Why The Government Wants A Weaker Dollar

Monday, February 4th, 2008 Posted in Currency, Economy | 8 Comments »

As I stated in my last post, the government is bankrupting our economy. I asked Chuck Butler of Everbank.com "why is the government trying to weaken the dollar and if ... Read more..

Friday’s Rant: Its the Government, Stupid!

Friday, February 1st, 2008 Posted in Economy, Rants | 11 Comments »

In the past week or so, the Federal Reserve has lowered the interest rates 1.25%. Today they've announced that they're going to lend out $60 Billion to cash-strapped banks to ... Read more..