Part of your job as a real estate professional is to help clients keep from stepping in a big, steaming pile of manure. You’re the pro. They’re the amateur. Don’t keep all your hard won knowledge to yourself. Below is an incomplete list of the kinds of issues that might seem so simple as to [...]

One of the most common questions likely heard as a real estate professional comes from concerned clients trying to decide if they should focus their efforts on saving or investing. It’s a natural question but it’s your duty to let them know that they should rephrase the question – the concept of saving for the future, at least as defined by past generations, is a quaint concept with little meaning in the modern financial world.

What exactly is the problem with the European debt crisis and how does it affect you here in the good, old United States of America? Isn’t that just some sort of boring, Old World problem that doesn’t have anything to do with the rest of us? Not exactly. Today’s world is much too interconnected for one financial system to crash without everyone else feeling it like a punch in the solar plexus. So we have Federal Reserve chairman Bernanke joining with European Central Banks to “infuse liquidity” into the volatile situation. Big mistake.