As part of the UK government’s latest plan to curb taxpayer-funded legal spending, companies and directors cleared of criminal charges in the UK could be barred from recovering their defence costs – potentially leaving businesses and individuals acquitted of fraud, price-fixing, corporate manslaughter and other serious offences with legal bills ranging up to several million…
Recently, I met the owner of a well-known precious metals web site and I popped this question to him: “What do you think about investing in silver?” His reply was both profound and accurate. “David,” he said, “The smart money is moving into gold, but the SMARTEST money is moving into silver!” Investing…
Prohibited Transactions and Disqualified Persons are important topics to consider when working with a Self Directed IRA. Failing to understand Prohibited Transactions, or to find an advisor or firm that does, may lead to the disqualification of your self-directed IRA, resulting in possible taxes and penalties. This article will outline the importance of disqualified person(s),…
The purpose of your investment real estate is to produce positive monthly cash flow and sell for an increased value at some point in the future. The only way rental real estate will be successful is to have excellent hands-on partners in the venture, otherwise know as tenants. Great tenants are crucial to the financial…
Five steps is all you need to take to get started building a Commercial Property Investor Network! If you haven’t already started the process of developing a network to fund your commercial property acquisitions start at the beginning.Here is my five step plan: If you do not know how to write HTML (and most people…
The current real estate market causes most investors to think twice before buying a piece of property, regardless of how great a deal it might be. While it’s prudent to use caution, don’t be penny wise and pound foolish. There are two areas in real estate that are begging to be noticed: short sales and…
If the strategy for investing in real estate in 2009 had to be whittled down to one word, it would be this one: “conservatively.” There are a number of differing opinions about when the market is going to rebound, which markets are fundamentally strong and where you should be putting your money. People always argue…
When vacancy rates increase you want to make sure that your units aren’t the ones that are empty. There are two ways to do that; one is to rent high quality units at excellent rates to long term tenants and the other is to keep your property manager on their toes. How do you do…
Moses Singo is an African exception. A black farmer with green fingers, he has probably had to overcome more obstacles than faced by most entrepreneurs anywhere else in the world to get his family business off the ground. A little more than a decade since launching the Singoflora Nursery in Tswane (Pretoria), he now exports…
Oh the irony. “Satyam” means “truth” in Sanskrit, a fitting name then for the fourth largest company in India’s booming information technology sector – a company that named the World Bank and a series of international blue chip businesses among its clients. But not anymore. The company, it now turns out, was a scam. Its chairman and…
