Many investment and personal finance experts believe that it’s time in the market, not timing the market that will increase your investment success. Even researchers showed this to be true. Trying to time the market is futile. I am definitely on board with this philosophy when it comes to my own investments. With Read More …
Category: Investments
Blog topics that involve strategies on how to make money. This can be in the form of stocks, real estate or personal loans
Personal Finance Horror Stories
Next week is the fun and scary Halloween festive day. For those that are new to Halloween, it’s a special day that occurs on October 31st of every year. Kids dress up in scary costumes and go around houses in their neighbourhood to ask for treats (mostly candies). For families that celebrate Halloween, they’ll Read More …
I Don’t Want To Be Mortgage Free
The headline of this post is correct. It’s not a typo and you didn’t misread it. I don’t want to be mortgage free (yet). Am I obsessed with debts? Somewhat. Let’s just say that I don’t hate debt nor do I fear it. I am just using debt responsibly as a wealth building tool. Read More …
Basic Investment Concepts
The first two of my personal finance series posts covered the basic and everyday personal finance concepts. They were meant to get readers to start thinking about and changing their money habits. By mastering those money concepts, they will have built a solid foundation and discipline to save their money. The next step is Read More …
Should You Manage Your Own Investments?
Last week, a very intriguing finance article just popped up on my Google Finance dashboard. The headline of “$21.8M in investment fees was mistakenly charged” strikes my interest and I gotta find out how did such a mistake occurred. Ever since I started to invest for myself, I became a strong advocate for managing Read More …
Would You Borrow Money To Invest?
Recently, I was working with someone close to me to analyze an investment opportunity. Let’s call this person Joe so that I don’t reveal his identity just in case he reads this post and doesn’t like what I have shared. Not everyone is open to sharing financial information or personal stories like me and Read More …
Lessons From A Young Entrepreneur
When I was about 10 years old, I immigrated from Vietnam to Canada. It’s been more than 28 years since I came to Canada. I don’t have a lot of memories of my childhood back in Vietnam. Somehow, there seems to be one particular piece of memory that I often recollect from time to Read More …
A Beginner’s Guide To Owning Rental Properties
For the past few years, I’ve been a landlord of a few rental properties from a high-rise condo unit to a low-rise pre-construction home to a fixer upper resale home. However, I’ve never owned a multi-residential building before – that’s a totally different beast (I’ll love to have enough money to own it some Read More …
The Benefits Of Investing With A Partner
When I first got the idea of penning this post, I was so tempted to headline it, “Friends With Benefits.” After conducting a little research at Google with the exact same search terms, I decided that I didn’t want my post to be appearing in the same search result as the ones that I Read More …
How I Saved An Extra $200,000 By Increasing My Debt
After reading the title of this post, you must be wondering, “What’s going on? Did Leo’s blog get hacked or what was he smoking before he wrote this post?” No, my blog did not get hacked nor was I smoking anything (I am not a smoker). What I wanted to say is that I Read More …