Carnival of Wealth Building #2

--By Sagar Satapathy

Greetings! Welcome to the second edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Contrary to our expectations, we received 18 posts for this edition. 15 posts have been finally selected to be featured on this carnival. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

WBL presents How To Invest In Real Estate posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Bread and butter properties are just your basic, no-frills 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 2 car garage homes which are usually around 1250-1500 sq ft. These properties will give you the best rent-to-mortgage ratio.

Aniq Rahman presents Listen to the Employees Before You Buy Up The Employer: Better Means Bigger posted at Fiscal Times. The Best Company to Work For according to the list is none other than the ubiquitous Google. With a Fortune rank of 241 and only 6500 employees, is a force to reckon with. They receive a reported 1300 resumes per day.

Bryan Moore presents TheFinancialWhiz.Com: Utilizing Leveraged ETFs to Simulate the Performance of the S&P with Less Risk posted at TheFinancialWhiz.Com. This strategy involves a relatively new investment product to the market known as Ultra shares, which mimic the returns of the underlying index times two.

Shamelle presents Make Money, Not Excuses! posted at Enhance Life. The human tendency is to always want more. It’s no different with money. One might argue that with the rising inflation and taxes, we NEED more. We DO, we DO!

Amy Pedersen presents Credit Repair Companies and Debt Consolidation, Do They Really Do Anything? posted at Your Credit Score Secrets. While many people tend to think that the only thing that can actually fix credit is time, in reality, there are a ton of things out there that can help you to repair your credit score yourself. Time is only one piece in the big puzzle.

Michael Anuzis presents How to Negotiate a Pay Raise with Game Theory posted at Empowering People Through Information. This videocast is a true story of negotiating a pay raise from $12/hr to $300/hr using basic Game Theory.

Tyler presents Start Buying Dividend Stocks Now! posted at Dividend Money. If we combine this factor with today’s low interest rate environment, we can see that fixed income instruments (with the exception of TIPS) such as bonds and CD’s provide little, if any, protection against inflation.

Edithyeung presents How to Analyze Real Estate: Single Family Homes (SFH) posted at Stewart Hsu. If you buy a new SFH with a 20% down-payment, chance are the property is going to be negative cash flow, which means that your rental income will not cover all of the operating expenses associated with owning the property.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Saving Money: Frequently Asked Questions posted at The Digerati Life. For many people, it sure feels like there’s just not enough money going around, but one way to change things is to curb spending habits and learn how to save. It sure sounds simple but why are our saving rates so low in the U.S. compared to other countries?

The Skilled Investor presents Can you really get free and objective investment advice, when you pay investment sales loads? (Part 1 of 2) posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. Excessive investment costs are a plague on your personal financial planning. Excessive investment expenses are one of the most significant barriers to lifelong family financial security.

Darius presents How much worse can housing get? posted at Related to Mortgage. The slow drift downward in long-term rates stopped this week, the 10-year T-note at 4.69 percent, mortgages settling just above 6.25 percent.

Tracy Coenen presents Home buyers suing to get out of contracts posted at FRAUDfiles. Cancellation rates on these home buying contracts may be as high as 30%. The story highlights a few situations in Florida, where attorneys are even advertising their services to people who want to get out of their contracts.

Babak presents Jeremy Grantham: World?s a Bubble Except for Trees posted at Trader's Narrative. Although a totally ignored asset class, timber is one of the best long term investments you can make.

Jeremy Reeves presents Financial Independence Series #4 - How To Get Started posted at The Road To A Perfect Life. Now that you’ve learned about what financial independence actually is, why you need to achieve it, and how to track it, you are probably wondering how you can actually get started.

Brian Brady presents What's my rate? It looks like I gotta WACC you ! posted at The Most Opinionated Mortgage Broker. CAN YOU GET A FIRST MORTGAGE WITH A RATE BETTER THAN 6.575%? Find out...

That concludes the 2nd edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. It is important to promote this carnival on your blogs in order to make it popular. I seek your support in this regard. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival.

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