The Cash Flow Mercenary - Metro Detroit Cashflow Real Estate

The Wall Street Journal this week highlighted a problem that’s only getting worse as the financial sector melts down. 
Baby Boomers Delay Retirement
Declines in Assets Force a Generation to Face New Reality
By KELLY GREENE
Nancy Davis, a 59-year-old senior marketing manager for a law firm in San Diego, had hoped to ease into her retirement after her [...]

Yesterday I started a discussion on how finding, screening, and selecting tenants is Critical Success Factor #2 for being successful at owning rental properties. And I began to discuss the four steps that need to be taken to screen and select successfully.
I talked about step 1 yesterday. That was Set expectations up front.
I’ll finish up with the rest of the steps [...]

That’s harsh I know. And the way that I run my business it’s not at all accurate, because I have some of the best renters that you could imagine.
But think about it - you have a house that’s worth, say $100,000. You’ve bought it, done some work to it, and you’ve made sure that you’ve [...]

The meme bug is sweeping the real estate blogging world again. 
@ToddWaller tagged me a couple of days ago to reveal potentially embarrassing facts, after he had supposedly done so himself. I didn’t see any embarassing things on his list, but there were a bunch of interesting things that I learned about him. So in the spirit of [...]

As I look at the stock market, at the moment the DOW is at 10,844, down another 215 points today. Do you know what this means?
That as of right now the market is only 476 points above where it was eight years ago after the internet bubble burst. It’s still above the lows that we [...]