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Carnival of Wealth Building #9

Greetings! Welcome to the 9th edition of the Carnival of Wealth building. We have selected 18 posts for this edition. I hope you will enjoy reading these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Warren Wong presents How to Control Your Thoughts and Get What You Want posted at INTJ Personal Development. Find out how to control your thoughts to get what you want. Here's an effective method for controlling your thoughts.

Nenad Ristic presents 10 Reasons to Join eVo posted at Money Consciousness. eVo will provide a social site, which will allow the users to play online games against each other. As the site and the insiders report point out, the casual games market grows at an amazingly fast rate at the moment (they give a figure of it growing at four times the rate of the net as a whole. I have not taken the time to confirm or deny this figure).

Roshawn Watson presents Investing Is For You: Investment Series Part One ... posted at Watson Inc. A big barrier to investment is that many feel that it is too risky. If you are one of these people, let me help you friend. Investing is not very risky; poor investing is risky, and so is not investing. Good investing in diversified index funds has proven to be a solid wealth building tool.

George Courtney jr presents The 12 Building Blocks of Wealth Cycle Investing posted at The Authentic Bartender Blog. Wealth building is a process. Anyone who has inadvertently signed up for a wealth-building seminar — only to receive a barrage of get-rich-quick schemes — may be justifiably skeptical of anyone who claims to create millionaires. The reason I can say I create millionaires with complete confidence is that I do it by teaching them a process.

ChristianPF presents How to make more money with your emergency fund posted at ChristianPF.com. A quick how-to showing you how to use an emergency fund to save more money and increase it's growth rate.

Millionaire Mommy Next Door presents Create Your Treasure Map To Riches posted at Millionaire Mommy Next Door. Visualizing what wealth means to you shapes the way your mind thinks about money and your life. Your mind then sets in motion the actions necessary to begin achieving your goals. By taking the time to establish what real wealth looks like to you, you direct your efforts in ways that will make becoming rich, in your own terms, simple.

Allen Taylor presents What Are Your Wealth-Building Goals? posted at Investing World Today. The money is out there. No matter how many people tell you that we are in the midst of a starvation economy, that the market is doing this or that, and that it’s too risky to play the game, so to speak, people are getting rich every day. That is the reality.

Tim Ramsey presents Debt Consolidation Loan To Deliver You From Debt posted at My Debt Relief Blog. High amount of debt needs a drastic solution and a debt consolidation loan is the best solution that can unburden your load of debt.

Babak presents Amateur Hour At the NYSE: Odd Lot Data Is Bullish posted at Trader's Narrative. Odd lots are transactions in the stock market which are for less than 100 shares. Since this size of transaction is characterized by retail and small traders or investors who are uninformed about the market, it is considered a constrain indicator.

Eric Stanley presents Need a Money Making Idea? posted at Personal Finance Blog Articles. There are so many money making ideas you can choose from online that anyone, no matter what skill level, can find something.

Ant presents Are you a Millionaire Yet? posted at The Beef Jerky Blog. Everyone wants to be a millionaire, and sorry to say, but if you are between the ages of 9 and 13 then this may be easier for you to achieve than you think. If you are like me in your mid 20s then this may not be so easy unless you received a headstart.

Adventures in Money Making presents Buying Pre-construction Properties In Baja Mexico posted at Adventures in Money Making. A brief primer on real estate investing in Mexico.

KCLau presents Money Lessons from Transformers movie posted at KCLau's Money Tips. Transformers is an entertaining movie. It also teaches us about personal finance.

Mmotley presents Bruce Berman posted at Digital Battlegrounds. An honest review of Bruce Berman's Wealth building program.

Moneywise presents Stocks as Income Investments posted at The Real Returns. Considering stocks as income investment makes buying and holding easy.

Raj Dash presents Bootstrapper » Bootstrapping Your Business Cash Flow posted at Bootstrapper. One way to build wealth is starting a business on minimal funds and bootstrapping your way to success. Here are some bootstrapping techniques.

Tushar presents Save big on your Mortgage posted at Life of a Resident Alien.... On average, a U.S. homeowner with a $300,000 mortgage can save upwards of $100,000 over the life of his or her mortgage just by following this simple program. And if that's not enough incentive, think about being debt-free and potentially ready to retire years sooner than you'd planned.

Steve Leung presents Tools for Protecting Yourself During a Home Purchase posted at Silicon Valley Real Estate Blog - 1SiliconValley.com. How the right contract and market analysis can keep you from making a huge mistake when buying a home.

That concludes the 9th edition of the Carnival of Wealth building. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 27 July 2007. You can submit your posts via the blog carnival submission form.

Carnival of Wealth Building #8

Greetings! Welcome to the 8th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. We have received 13 posts for this edition. I hope our readers will enjoy reading these. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

The Mad Money Analyst presents Using Costs Basis as an Advantage posted at The Mad Money Analyst. Costs basis is the cost of an asset or investment for tax purposes, which includes the purchase price and expenses such as commissions paid. Essentially if you subtract expenses from the purchase price paid, you'll arrive at the cost basis for any particular investment. But how do you use this tax principal as advantage?

Edithyeung presents I Have a Dream posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Motivational example for everyone who are doing something that they are passionate about.

ChristianPF presents 9 Tips from Warren Buffett posted at ChristianPF.com. Nine tips about investing, business, and life from the world’s greatest investor.

Steve Faber presents - 7 Home Flipping Mistakes to Avoid (actually, you should avoid them all) posted at Debt Free. If you listen to the late night infomercials, any dullard with an ounce of initiative can make a fortune flipping houses. If only it were so easy. First of all, in some areas of the country, this isn’t the best time to try house flipping, although opportunities exist in many markets.

Matthew Paulson presents Single Stocks or Mutual Funds? posted at Getting Green. A look at which makes better sense for your investing needs, stocks or mutual funds.

Big Cajun Man presents Free Banking? posted at Canadian Financial Stuff. One way to save money, is don't let the bank take it away from you in bank fees! How? Just read...

The Mad Money Analyst presents What You Should Know About Retirement posted at The Mad Money Analyst. When planning for the future, you must consider many variables. Some of us might have children. Some of us might want to travel around the world. Some of us might even just want to find a small, quaint, little town to ride out in a blaze of glory. But if one thing is for sure...

Adventures in Money Making presents How Capitalism Really Works posted at Adventures in Money Making. Here's an amusing anecdote on how capitalism really works.

Shadox presents New 401K Plan & Features posted at Money and Such. This article tells of some of the innovative 401K features being introduced by my company, including: ROTH 401K, self directed 401K, and employee opt out enrollment.

Craig Andrews presents Outsourcing = Freedom Of Time posted at Craig S. Andrews - "real Internet business solutions". For excellent results, one the best ways to drive a lot of traffic to your blog or Website is through effective and unique article version submissions. Using a highly effective article submission software is key to your Internet success.

Tyler presents Home Sweet Home Depot posted at Dividend Money. A look at Home Depot as a long term investment.

CA presents How would you get back from Mars? posted at Atlantic Canada's Small Business Blog. After all, the goal of an organization is money, right? Wrong!

Maureen presents All Things To All People? Hardly. | Guideye posted at Guideye.com. Every problem in business- with the possible exception of actual theft – boiled down to one thing: communication.

That concludes the 8th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 19, July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.

Carnival of Wealth Building #7

Greetings! Welcome to the 7th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Contrary to our expectations, we have received 19 posts for this edition. It's a good list and I am sure you will enjoy reading these posts. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Edithyeung presents How To Build a Strong Real Estate Team posted at Stewart Hsu. Being able to find, interview, motivate and work with excellent people can make all the difference between incurring losses vs. achieving stellar returns. It takes time and skill to build and maintain a good team, but that time and effort you invest will undoubtedly yield you greater confidence, better decisions and therefore better results.

Wolf Stone presents 5 Ways to Gauge Market Sentiment posted at Canadian Economy, Commodities And Mining Stocks Through a Fundamental Lens - Wolf Stone. The American Association of Individual Investors Sentiment Survey measures the percentage of individual investors who consider themselves "bullish," "bearish" or "neutral" on the stock market on a weekly basis. The AAII indicator is considered a contrary indicator because individual investors like you and I are considered “last to know”.

KCLau presents How Much is Adequate for Emergency Fund posted at KCLau's Money Tips. If you are putting more money at low risk and liquid account, you are actually building an emergency fund out of that practice. In other words, if you are investing most of your money, you probably increase the risk to get better return, hence reducing the liquid part of your portfolio.

Christopher Smith presents Why I don't like Rich Dad posted at Real Estate Investing in the Real World. It’s hard to argue with the success that Robert T. Kiyoski has had with his Rich Dad series. Head over to Amazon.com and you’ll see almost fifty items on offer. But I'd argue Kiyosaki knows a lot more about selling books than he knows about strategies that will actually help people improve their financial position.

Warren Wong presents Do You Get Money? posted at Personal Development for INTJs. Do you "get" money? Did you know that if you leave your money in the bank gathering interest, you actually lose a little bit of it every year? Read this article to find out more!

Beth Anderson presents Focus = Wealth posted at InvestorCentric. “Wealth is built through concentration and maintained through diversification.”

Roshawn Watson presents Click To Play Be Your Own CFO part 2: Mind Yo... posted at Watson Inc. Many should ask themselves "is working at a job the best way to achieve my goals?" If your goal is financial independence, the answer may startle you. Did you know that business owners are 5 times more likely to become millionaires than typical employees?

Adventures in Money Making presents Is It A Good Time To Invest In Real Estate? posted at Adventures in Money Making. Is It A Good Time To Invest In Real Estate?

Wealth Building Lessons presents Is Sears the Next Berkshire Hathaway? posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Wealth Building Lessons discusses reasons why Sears may be the next Berkshire Hathaway.

Warren Wong presents Grow Your Pile Of Money posted at Personal Development for INTJs. Your Pile of Money is shrinking just by keeping it in the bank! Learn to grow your pile of money here!

The Skilled Investor presents How to lie with statistics: Investment performance charts ? A Tip from The Skilled Investor posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. Historical investment performance charts for investment funds might be historically accurate. However, their presentation in advertising, on line, and in printed materials can amount to lies from several perspectives.

Ruby presents 7 Things About Success That You Can Learn From Steve Jobs posted at Advice and Rants. Do you really believe that successful people sit on their asses all day long?

Tim Ramsey presents Reduce Credit Card Debt Quickly posted at My Debt Relief Blog. Stop Using Your Credit Card. This is a massive way you can start to reduce credit card debt quickly, it isn’t rocket science to realize that by continuing to use your credit card is going to plunge you deeper into debt than you already are.

Eric Stanley presents Saving Money - A Top Strategy For Saving Money posted at Personal Finance Blog Articles. Do you find it difficult to save the money you work hard to earn? If so, then this article aims to help you get on top of your funds and start investing in your future.

Thomas Humes presents Wealth Creation- Don?t Start With the Wrong Concept of Wealth posted at Wealth Building World. If you think wealth creation is all about trying to save more money, trying to cut down on your spending, and budgeting then you are very wrong.

Marc and Angel presents When Buying a Car with a Credit Card Makes Cents posted at Marc and Angel. Marc and Angel just purchased a brand new car (Honda Accord Coupe EX-L) on a credit card. You think they’re crazy? Think again. They instantly saved ourselves about $500!

Mark25 presents Taking Smart risks posted at Business School. If you want to achieve anything in life, especially if you want extra income, you’re going to have to take some risks. The risk may come in different forms, whether the amount of time spent, the hard work you are going to put it or the extra money you will need to spend or sacrifice.

Babak presents Homebuilding Sector Merits Attention posted at Trader's Narrative. Although it is always most difficult, it is rewarding to step in and buy when no one else is. Right now sentiment and the technicals have reached a crescendo of pessimism that usually signals an inflection point.

The Mad Money Analyst presents Why Invest in Stocks? posted at The Mad Money Analyst. Simply put, of all the possible types of investments, stocks will provide the best opportunity for growth over time and are a great solution for long-term investing. This idea is the core approach of many investors...

That concludes the 7th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 10 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.

Carnival of Wealth Building #6

Greetings! Welcome to the 6th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. We have received 7 great posts for this edition. I hope our readers will find those useful and interesting. Without further adom here are the posts in the order they were received.

Ruby presents 25 Ways to Make Money Quickly and Easily (and Legally)! posted at Advice and Rants. How can you earn some extra money easily and quickly? You may be broke, debt, and desperate to make some money quickly, or you may be unable to work full-time (maybe because you’re a student like me?). Don’t worry, there are ways to make money quickly, easily, and without robbing a bank.

Argonautica presents Bundling Cable, Phone, and Internet Costs More posted at Golden Fleece Blog. “Consolidate your cable, phone and Internet service to get the best deal.”...I have found that bundling these services will cost you more if you are a savvy consumer because you can get better deals by a) mixing and matching services, and b) playing each company’s promotional rates off of one another.

Silicon Valley Blogger presents Curb Appeal: One Of My Best Investments Yet Or How I Turned $80 Into $5,000 With Minimal Risk posted at The Digerati Life. Tree planting pays dividends not just for the environment but also for your pocket. Here’s how.

Babak presents Inflation? What Inflation? posted at Trader's Narrative. So everyone is afraid of the big inflation boogey man thinking that interest rates will have to rise and choke off the stock market's bull run. But is inflation really around the corner? According to gold, silver and the CRB commodities index inflation fears are just a mirage.

Dough Roller presents How to Find The Hidden Cost of Mutual Funds posted at The Dough Roller. Not all mutual fund costs are included in the expense ratio. This article breaks down the costs of a mutual fund, including those hidden costs.

Edith Yeung presents How to Say Goodbye to Someday Isle posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Edith says, "Taking that step, setting foot on that rocking boat leaving corporate was one of the best decisions I have ever made. Once I set foot the water was surprisingly calm. It was a lot easier than I originally thought."

Michelle Cramer presents Tips for Gaining and Impressing Potential Investors posted at GreatFX Business Cards. Tips on how to impress potential investors so they will be more willing to support your business venture.

That concludes the 6th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 02 July, 2007. You can submit your posts here.

Carnival of Wealth Building #5

Greetings! Welcome to the 5th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. We have received 17 posts for this edition. I hope you will enjoy reading these posts. Here are the posts in the order they were received.

Tyler presents Attention Please! posted at Dividend Money. Do you review your portfolio more often when the markets are performing well?

Uni presents Agloco has Launched it?s toolbar! FREE money maker! posted at You Deserve More. Agloco has Launched it’s toolbar: FREE money maker! They are releasing the toolbar 50,000 members at a time, so it may be a few days before you get to download yours.

The Skilled Investor presents THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog posted at THE SKILLED INVESTOR Blog. Sales load charges and commissions on investment purchases differ from the financial service industry’s numerous other recurring methods of charging fees to their retail consumers. Sales loads are less straightforward to analyze for investment lifetime cost-effectiveness, compared to annually recurring charges.

AJ presents Dividend Analysis - Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) posted at Dividends Matter. A look at one of Warren Buffett's holdings.

Babak presents IBES Valuation Model: Stocks Extremely Undervalued posted at Trader's Narrative. Should we heed the IBES valuation method? It is a little followed indicator that has guided profitable investors for the past 30 years. You'll be surprised to know that right now, it is telling us to buy.

Azmi M. presents How to Make Money from YouTube posted at Random Ramblings of Desi Baba. YouTube’s popularity has grown tremendously and so has its profits. Google saw great potential from that site and so it bought it out for over a billion dollars a while back. Now as a regular Internet surfer you can have a piece of that pie indirectly. If you offer YouTube videos on your blog then you can actually make a good amount of money from it.

Royan Shaw presents Secret To Your Success Online - How To Start-Up Your Mini-Empire - Part 1 posted at Ezinet Global Marketing Blogsite. This is the lead off article of the necessary approaches required to get on the road to success. This a fundamental step by step guide required of those of us serious about achieving wealth,recognition and status.

Average Joe presents Stock Analysis - Cognizant Technology Company (NASDAQ:CTSH) posted at Investment Jungle. A real value pick!

Josh presents Mutual Funds- What You Need To Know posted at The Mad Money Analyst. This series on mutual funds will explain how a mutual fund is managed, how it is organized, how shares are sold, and who the main players are.

Eric Hudin presents Living Trust Confusion posted at My Estate Planning Career Blog. A living trust is a legal entity normally created to hold assets in your lifetime and distribute them after your death. [A living trust has nothing to do with a living will. A living will is a document that states your desires regarding use of artificial means or heroic measures if you become disabled.]

Craig S. Andrews presents My Ultimate Traffic Generating Cash Cow posted at Craig S. Andrews - "real Internet business solutions". One the best ways to drive excellent traffic to your blog or Website is through effective article submissions. Using an effective article submission software is key to your success. Please visit my blog for all types of "Internet Business Solutions."

Silicon Valley Blogger presents The American Nightmare: An Illustration Of The Subprime Lending Mess and Borrowing Bust [A FlowChart] posted at The Digerati Life. How many times have you heard of those stories of woe and bankruptcy caused by the subprime lending and borrowing crisis, currently in the forefront of real estate market news?

Steve Faber presents - The SSBC Investing Strategy – the 4 Secrets to Investment Success? posted at Debt Free. The 4 things you need to successfully grow your investment portfolio are the same 4 things you need to be a successful athlete; strength, balance, speed and coordination.

Trent presents Personal Finance Success Comes More From Smart Budgeting Than Smart Investing posted at The Simple Dollar. The truth is that personal finance success comes from smart budgeting and frugality, not from chasing a couple more percentage points on an investment.

Ralph presents Enough Wealth: Get A Perpetual Income Stream for just 3% of Salary posted at Enough Wealth. What happens if you save "too much" for your retirement, as a recent MSN Money Article suggested was a possibility following conventional financial planning "rules of thumb" such as the 4% retirement withdrawal rate?

Anna Farmery presents How community is linking content to user posted at ThePodcastSisters. People trust recommendations, follow the links of people they respect - communities are a feed ground for how and what your "customers" consume as their products.

Edithyeung presents Advice from a Billionaire posted at Stewart Hsu. It may seems obvious, but so often people do things because of what others may think. To heck with anyone else’s opinion, follow your heart, and do what you know you should be doing.

That concludes the 5th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Next edition of this carnival will be hosted here on 20 June, 2007. You can submit your posts via blog carnival page.

Carnival of Wealth Building #4

Welcome to the 4th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. We have received 13 posts for this edition. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

George Courtney jr presents Make Money posted at The Authentic Bartender Blog. Sounds easy...Make Money...then why is it then that so many people have such a hard time doing this simple thing?

Ruby presents 7 ways you can join forces with friends to be more frugal posted at Frugal Aussie. Buy in bulk: pool your resources to buy things that you all need, in bulk. Bulk buyers can enjoy significant discounts, so take advantage of those!

Tyler presents All Drugged Up posted at Dividend Money. Trying to tackle the law-suit machine that is the pharma industry is a daunting task for many investors, myself included. However, with our aging population, a prudent investor simply can’t ignore the upside potential that these companies have going forward.

Zenofeller presents Scam-Guru.com, the last word in wasting your time and taking your money. posted at zenofeller.com. Now you too can pretend to be developing a project, pretend to be hiring people, pretend to have a clue. And pretend to have money. No commitment, no down payment, no strings attached.

Babak presents Fund Flows Data: Anything But US Equities posted at Trader's Narrative. The crowd is continuing to avoid investing money in the US stock market even as it continues to go up. An astute strategy is to zag when others zig. Just as it was smart to avoid US stocks when everyone was rushing head first into them at the market top in 2000, now the smart thing to do is to be bold when others are fearful.

Edithyeung presents 53 Ways to Make Money on the Internet posted at Edith Yeung.Com: Dream. Think. Act.. Online advertising is the most popular way for websites to make money. There are many online advertising website out there. I used Adsense and Adbrite the most. Some sites require you to have minimum traffic (which make sense for the advertisers).

Thomas Ott presents Calculating Historical Volatility posted at Neural Market Trends. The inspiration for my S&P500 Volatility Timing model came from rereading portions of Mandelbrot’s book, The (Mis)Behavior of Markets, and trolling around the Internet for Nassim Taleb’s research work on risk.

WBL presents Protect Your Wealth and Privacy From Lawsuits posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Protect your assets from Jackasses!

Average Joe presents Book Review: How to Pick Stocks like Warren Buffett by T. Vick posted at Investment Jungle. “How to Pick Stocks Like Warren Buffett” by Timothy Vick was an excellent read. From reading about Warren Buffett’s personal experiences to a ton of excellent information on value investing, this book is definitely one for your personal library.

David presents One Million Dollars Generators posted at Worldwide Success. Any activity that generates $10 a day for 10 years will turn into $1 Million in another 30 years if the money is invested at a 10% rate of return.

Steve Faber presents - REITs – A good Investment for Tishman Speyer Properties, But Is a REIT Right for You? posted at Debt Free. As Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers looks to close a deal for one of the largest residential REITs in the world, the Archstone-Smith Trust, you may be thinking “There're probably smarter minds at work there than between my ears. So they know something I don't?”

AJ presents Stock Analysis - Johnson and Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) posted at Dividends Matter. Stock Analysis of the dividend payer Johnson and Johnson (JNJ).

Matthew Monnette presents How To Figure Out If You Belong Online posted at Easy Money Daily. No matter what the technology is behind your home business, you are going to have to figure out eventually if you have a market that should be online, or one that is going to be best locally served.

That concludes the 4th edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your participation.

Carnival of Wealth Building #3

Greetings! Welcome to the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. We have received 18 posts for this carnival out of which 16 posts have been selected as feature posts. Without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

Brandon Peele presents Marketing: The Authenticity Fallacy posted at GT. From a materialist point of view and prior to a quantum understanding, the words authentic or original are only meaningful in a relative sense. E.g. Apple's iPod design is original, or that person is authentic.

WBL presents Profiting From Inflation and Dollar Devaluation posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Where to invest during inflationary times and a depreciating dollar.

John Crenshaw presents The One Idea That Took 23 Years To Understand And Changed My Life Forever posted at Dominate Your Life. There’s one path on the way to meet your goals, and it’s disappearing behind you; there’s nowhere to go but forward, there’s no other option but to succeed.

Average Joe presents Screening for Quality Dividend Paying Stocks posted at Investment Jungle. The Dow Jones 30 Index has a dividend yield of 2.26%. The S&P/TSX Composite Index has a dividend yield of 2.35%.

TJP presents 4 Tips on Buying Put Options posted at Investor Trip. In order to fund this investment, free up some cash from another account other than your stock portfolio, mutual fund portfolio, or IRA account.

Jack Yoest presents An Anniversary posted at Reasoned Audacity. The first week in every month of May Your Business Blogger has two anniversaries to celebrate. Two constants every man needs.

Robinson Go of Good Blog Advice presents A Comprehensive Blogging Guide posted at Rob's Blog: Advice for Bloggers. Blogging is very promising field to increase one's wealth and many people have succeeded in making money online through blogging. This is a future comprehensive blogging guide to help all aspiring bloggers from the newbie to the above average blogger.

Fletchlives presents Sometimes You Should Roll The Dice posted at fletchlivesforecasts. This is a good post on stock market and trading.

Tyler presents How Not To Make Money In Stocks Guaranteed! posted at Dividend Money. These tips are certain to help you lose money in the stock market!

Edithyeung presents How to Get Started Investing in Real Estate posted at Stewart Hsu. Your goals should be S.M.A.R.T, that is Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Realistic, and Time-based.

Joe Caterisano presents 3 Simple Steps to Accelerate Success Towards You posted at Self Help and Personal Development. Before you begin any endeavor, know in advance exactly what you expect your outcome to be.

John Wesley presents Continuously Increase Productivity by Embracing the Optimization Mentality posted at Pick the Brain. An important detail to note is that the line for all three groups starts at the exact same point. Everyone starts as an absolute beginner with no ability.

Jeremy Reeves presents The Simplest Rule Of Success posted at The Road To A Perfect Life. Rules govern our lives in almost every situation. There are church rules, social rules, and business rules that are supposed to be followed in order for you to achieve whatever it is you’re looking for.

Aaron Brandon presents Traffic To Your Blog posted at Aaron Brandon. What a blog broadcast can do to retain your current blog readers? This is vital for your blog or your businesses success if you use a blog as the main website for your business. It’s important to create a list so you can notify your readers when you have new information to share with them.

H.S. Ayoub presents Is Early Release of Study Data to Doctors Unfari? posted at BioHealth Investor. It is a common, and expected practice, to release study results and preliminary data of major studies to doctors and members of medical associations ahead of major conferences.

Almomento presents 10 Steps to Better Efficiency in Your Day to Day Life posted at BurstCreativity. Ability to be creative in all of the aspects of our life can enhance it beyond belief. Since creativity enhances with practice, we have to put ourselves through an intense emergence into the world of creativity, to make a profound change in how we approach life. We will condition our mind to think creatively where before it wasn’t natural for us to do so.

That concludes the 3rd edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Keep submitting your posts to the future editions of this carnival. Thank you for your contribution.

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...

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11 of the Weirdest Houses in the United States

All houses wherein men have lived and died are haunted houses ...Henry  Wadsworth Longfellow.

The United Statesnis one of the countries haunted with all kinds of scary ghosts and weird houses. We all find enough stories and evidences on hunted houses and hotels in America. Whether you believe in ghosts or not, it is fun to be scared. Some houses in the US have a creepy vibe. Let us try to find out how scary and interesting these weird houses are!

1. White House:   This is one of the weirdest official houses in the US. Many ghosts have been reported here, but none has appeared very regularly as that of former president Abraham Lincoln. In one incident, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was staying at the White House when she heard footsteps followed by a knock at her door. She answered it and came face to face with the assassinated president. Mrs. Grace Coolidge, the first lady, also saw Lincoln's figure dressed in black and looking out from a window in the Oval Office. Presidents Eisenhower and Truman both sensed a ghost’s presence, and Truman's daughter also heard knocking sounds. Later, President Reagan’s daughter also reported seeing Lincoln's ghost inside the White House.
2. Winchester House:    Previously known as the Victorian Mansion, a wealthy widow named Sarah L. Winchester built the house in 1884 that is filled with so many unexplained oddities. This 160-room Victorian mansion had modern heating and sewer systems, gas lights that operated by pressing a button, three working elevators and 47 fireplaces. When you enter the house, you will be impressed by the staggering amount of creativity, energy and expense poured into each and every corner of the room. .  The oddest thing is smell of chicken soup coming from a long-unused kitchen. There are many things in the house designed to confuse unwary spirits: doors that are very small or lead nowhere; long, winding staircases with very shallow risers; windows that look into other parts of the house; pillars installed upside down and the number 13 found everywhere.
3. Hull House:     This haunted house in Chicago was constructed by Charles J. Hull at Halsted and Polk Streets in 1856. The house was then turned into a community center by Jane Addams and another social worker who took over in 1889. Jane Addams first occupied Mrs. Hull's bedroom. She was awakened one night by loud footsteps in the otherwise empty room. She then moved to another room. Jane was not alone in noticing the unusual happenings. Helen Campbell, an author was reported seeing an apparition standing next to her bed. When she lit the gas jet, the figure vanished. The same peculiar sounds and figures were also observed by Mrs. Louise Bowen, a lifelong friend of Jane. Hull House received its greatest notoriety when it was alleged to be the refuge of the Chicago "devil baby". This child with pointed ears, horns, scale-covered skin and a tail was supposedly born to a devout Catholic woman and her atheist husband. Locals reported that they saw a disfigured boy that was hidden away on the upper floors of the house. On certain nights, the image of a deformed face could also be seen peering out of the attic window.
4. Lemp Mansion:     This Pointer Family house is located in St. Louis at Missouri. The Lemp Mansion was built in the early 1860's and was subsequently purchased by William J. Lemp as a residence and auxiliary brewery office. After the death of Charles Lemp, the mansion was sold and turned into a boarding house. However, stories began to emerge that residents of the boarding house often complained of ghostly knocks and phantom footsteps in the house. The decline of the house continued until 1975, when Dick Pointer and his family purchased it. The Pointer's began remodeling and renovating the place, working for many years to turn it into a restaurant and an inn. But the Pointer's were soon to find out that they were not alone in the house. During the renovation process, workers reported strange things happening in the house. The workers feel they are being watched, tools vanished and strange sounds inside the room. When the restaurant was opened, staff members also have had their own odd experiences. Glasses have been seen to lift off the bar and fly through the air; sounds are often heard that do not have explanation and some have even glimpsed actual apparitions who appear and vanish at will. It is also said that doors lock and unlock on their own. The piano in the bar plays by itself and voices and sounds come from nowhere.
5. Charles Wright Congelier Home:     One of the weirdest houses was located was located at 1129 Ridge Avenue, in the Manchester, North Side, and neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Carpetbagger Charles Wright Congelier, his Mexican wife Lyda, and a young servant girl, Essie was living in this house around 1870. The story of its life as a haunted house begins in the winter of 1871, with Lyda's discovery of Charles having an affair with the maid. Lyda was so enraged, that she fatally stabbed Charles and chopped off Essie's head. For the next 20 years the house remained vacant. In 1892, it was remodeled to accommodate workers but they soon moved out, claiming to hear the sobbing and screaming of a woman. Around 1900, Dr. Adolph C. Brunrichter bought the haunted home. One day on August 12, 1901, the family next door heard a terrifying scream from his residence. When they ran outside to investigate, the neighbors saw a red explosion-like flash shooting through the house. The earth under them trembled, and the sidewalls cracked. Every window in the doctor's home was shattered. Upon investigation, they found a decomposed female body strapped to the bed and five headless young women in basement graves. Dr. Brunrichter, meanwhile, had disappeared, and the house once again stood vacant.
6. The Wademan House:     This huge old Victorian house on Center Street in Navarre, Ohio was built in 1850. The foundation was made from 4 feet thick slabs of limestone, and the structure itself was put up with huge oak timbers.  In the basement there was a narrow and frightening tunnel that was once part of the infamous Underground Railroad. Initially the 14 rooms house had been quite pleasant and peaceful, however many strange and weird things started to occur.  There was a cold spot in the music room that was absolutely freezing all the time. In many instances, things would turn up missing, or would be moved around to some other places. Rocking chairs would frequently rocked all by themselves. Footsteps were heard at all hours of the day or night walking through the downstairs hallway. Many beautiful antiques in the house were knocked or either thrown onto the floor and broken.
7. The Myrtles Plantation:   The Myrtles is one of the most haunted houses in America. Bradford (former leader of the whiskey rebellion) had built the great haunted house on a Tunica Indian burial ground in 1794. He was actually the very first to see a ghost at the Myrtles Plantation. A naked Indian girl was seen wandering lost on the grounds. A Civil War soldier died on the floor near the front door from battle wounds. He was an avid cigar smoker who stayed at the house before his death. The smell of cigars sometimes fills his room (though smoking was not allowed at the Myrtles Plantation). William Winter was said to have died on the 17th step of the staircase after a mysterious man shot him through the study window in 1871. The steps heard on the stairs in the middle of the night are attributed to him. Those who count claim the footsteps stop at the seventeenth step. People believed that the ghosts would hide in the corners until nighttime, when they would come out to pester the living.
8. LaLaurie House:    This three-story building at the southeast corner of Royal and Governor Nichols street gained its eerie title, ‘The Haunted House,’ from an oft-repeated tale in which spirits of tortured slaves clank their chains during the midnight hours in remembrance of awful punishment meted out to them by their mistress. It appears that the mistress of this home was the first victim of yellow journalism in this country. Lalaurie was one of five children born to Louis Barthelemy Chevalier de Macarty and Marie Jeanne Lovable. The Lalaurie mansion was erected in 1832 and for the next two years was the scene of many fashionable affairs, for the Lalauries entertained on an elaborate plan. On the afternoon of April 10, 1834, an aged cook set fire to the house during the absence of her mistress. When neighbors rushed into the mansion to fight the fire and try to save the furniture and other valuables, slaves were found chained in their quarters. The principal ‘ghost’ is that of a little girl slave who, to escape the whip of her mistress, climbed to the roof and jumped to her death into the courtyard below. Another tale, equally untrue, was that the mistress of the mansion buried all her victims in the courtyard well. There were also reported incidents of people seeing, feeling and hearing the ghosts of tormented slaves in the LaLaurie home, and there are even reports of the Madame herself being seen there. Furniture moves about by itself, people feel the touch of unseen hands, and there are several who have seen the ghostly faces of the dead peering from the upper windows and the chamber of horrors that became the crucible of their miserable lives.
9. The Whaley House:   Located in San Diego, California the Whaley house was built in 1857 by Thomas Whaley on land that was partially once a cemetery. The house has since been the locus of dozens of ghost sightings. In the courtroom the faint scent of a cigar and perfume could be felt. Some of the other ghostly encounters include: the spirit of a young girl who was accidentally hanged on the property.
10. The Stranahan House:  The Stranahan House was built in 1906 for Frank Stranahan. He married Ivy Cromartie and used his newly acquired wealth to build her a home whose charm and beauty would endure into the 21st century. However, Stranahan died on June 23, 1929 but his life story had a sad end. Legend tells that he committed suicide after having sunk into financial ruin in 1927 when he lost most of his wealth and holdings in the aftermath of a devastating hurricane. As many as six family members have also died in the house. The ghost of Frank Stranahan is still in residence at the home he built with such loving care. Reports of strange apparitions and ghostly noises have come from rattle staff members. The ghost of Ivy Cromartie Stranahan, who died in an upstairs bedroom in 1971, was also reported to appear accompanied by the strong scent of an antique fragrance. The uneasy ghost of her father, Augustus Cromartie, who died in that same bedroom year before, is reported to make his presence known on occasion. Other ghostly residents include Ivy’s brother and sister and the apparition of an Indian servant girl seen outside the rear of the building.
11. Franklin Castle:         It has the distinction of being known as Ohio's most haunted house. Hannes Tiedemann, the builder of this castle was regarded as a monster type of man. A number of murders have been attributed to him for generations. He was responsible for the deaths of his daughter and a servant. According to some record, his 15-year-old daughter, Emma, was found hanging in the rafters. The murdered servant girl was either hacked to death with an axe in a front turret window on her wedding day in a fit of Tiedemann jealousy or perhaps she was strangled in her bed when Hannes bound and gagged her upon learning of her engagement to another man and her intention to leave him. Some speculate that you can still hear choking sounds in the room where she was killed. When the Romanos moved into the castle, things apparently got weird right away. On the first day the family moved in, several of their children went to play on the fourth floor. They returned a while later and told their mother of their new playmate, a little girl who dressed and talked strangely, and who refused to leave the upstairs. The continued to play with the girl for quite a while, but could never get her to come downstairs. A variety of investigators visited the house during the Romanos' stay. A team of researchers from the Northeast Ohio Psychical Research Society visited the Franklin house, and in the middle of the investigations one member of the team fled and vowed to never return. A writer saw a strange ectoplasm cloud and felt dizzy to the point of passing out when she approached it.

Carnival of Wealth Building #1

--By Sagar Satapathy

Welcome to the first edition of the Carnival of Wealth Building. Although this is the first edition, we received a good number of posts out of which 7 entries have been selected as featured posts. without further ado, here are the posts in the order they were received.

David presents Great Success Quotes – Part 1 posted at Worldwide Success. Success can be defined in many different ways. In this two part series, the writer has listed some great success quotes that will hopefully help shape your own definition of success.

Steve Faber presents - Home Business Opportunity – How to Succeed With the Right One posted at Debt Free. Too many home business entrepreneurs get awed by the multitude of different opportunities available to them. They try to get involved in too many different ones, never focusing on one specific business. This occurs more often in home business than a more traditional bricks and mortar business.

Amy Pedersen presents Fair Isaac Corporation, What a Wacky Bunch of Statisticians Dedicated to Credit posted at Your Credit Score Secrets. Credit Cards, Credit Reports and Credit Scores. These terms are not exactly new to any of us. Neither are the implications when our own cards, reports or scores are not at their “best”. Credit scoring, first created by a group of wacky statisticians at the Fair Isaac Corporation, affects everyone out there at some point or another.

John Hill presents Law of Tenfold Return posted at Universe Of Success. The principle of the law of tenfold return works on the same principle as energy, when you release energy whether it be a thought, a word or an action, this energy goes out into the universe and gathers more energy and since all energy travels in circles, it eventually comes back to you magnified ten times more powerful than when we released it, hence, the tenfold return.

Wealth Building Lessons presents Investing In Japan posted at Wealth Building Lessons. Learn why you should invest in Japan right now.

Nina presents Real Estate is a Real Asset posted at Queercents. What do you need to start investing? Income, discipline and time… Income (most of us work), discipline (don’t spend money on liabilities) and time (start as young as possible). Are you still renting?

Wanda Grindstaff presents The Buck Stops Within - Accept Responsibility for your Success posted at Creating Abundant Lifestyles Begin With Abundance Mindset. Take responsibility to have the success you desire.

That concludes the first edition of the Carnival of Home Improvement. Keep submitting your interesting and useful posts to the future editions of this carnival. You can consider giving a link back in order to promote this carnival on the web. It would be greatly appreciated.

Carnival of Wealth Building to be Hosted Here

Here's a good news for our readers. We are going to host the first edition of the "Carnival of Wealth Building" on April 18, 2007. We require interesting, useful posts on home ownership, investing, budgeting, saving and other related issues. The main focus of your post must be to increase one's net worth. Feel free to submit your entries through the Blog Carnival Page.