In the almost five years of sharing my investments on this blog, I’ve never shown exactly how I track dividend income. This article lays out the steps (with screenshots) I take each month to import dividend data into my tracking spreadsheet, estimate forward dividend income, and easily capture dividend increases. My forward 12-month investment income…
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7 Income Streams I Earned While Unemployed
This article is about learning to protect yourself from a future job loss by creating sustainable income streams that will continue to pay you even if you’re not working. If you’re unemployed today, use this article to frame your strategy once the income is back. Of all the financial advice I read and practice, the one…
Fundrise Review 2021: Passive Income via Real Estate
This Fundrise review was last updated 05/13/2021. Fundrise is a Washington D.C.-based real estate crowdfunding company enabling non-accredited investors to invest in high-quality real estate from their computer or smartphone. Investors can earn nice yields via one of the most passive income streams I’ve come across. After four years of investing on the platform, this…
Seek Adventure While Your Money Works for You
Adventure is dirt cheap. You don’t need fancy mountaineering gear to explore new parts of your hometown or find an off-the-path beach in Mexico. One-way flights are half price. Adventure can be a fresh side business, a new romance (hopefully not a dirt-cheap one), or anything that gets you out of your everyday routine. International travel is…
Strive To Wake Up And Do Nothing (With Your Finances)
If you really have done a great job as a leader, you should wake up in the morning and have nothing to do. – Steve Case, Co-founder of AOL, Chairman and CEO, Revolution This quote changed the way I think about my career. Soon after I read it, a coworker complained to me that his…
A Winning Real Estate Investing Strategy For Independent Landlords
The following is a guest post from fellow blogger Joseph Hogue. He’s a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) who writes for numerous websites and blogs, including his own Peer Finance 101 and Crowd 101. He’s got some advice to help improve your real estate investing strategy. You can also find him on the Blogfeed and Dads…
Build Income Streams in Case You’re Fired!
One striking revelation from the 2016 presidential election process was the sharp contrast between people who think the U.S. is in pretty good shape and those who feel the country never recovered from the last recession. Politics aside, the U.S. was in an epic economic expansion until COVID-19. The longest post-World-War-II economic expansion WAS from…
LendingRobot Review – Automate Your Peer Loan Investing
The following article is a comprehensive LendingRobot Review. My goal is to provide potential users an authentic review of the website by sharing my experience over the past year. To invest with LendingRobot, you first need to open an investing account with a peer to peer lending site such as Lending Club, Prosper or Funding Circle. I…
There’s Always Money In The Banana Stand
Arrested Development was an early 2000’s TV comedy loved by its fans. Despite critical acclaim, it failed to gain traction and the show was canceled after three seasons. Years later it was revamped as a Netflix series thanks to the enduring hilarity of the first three seasons and its grassroots fan base. Challenged with cast schedules, the…
Rent Increase – An Easy Boost To Cash Flow
Nobody likes a rent increase. Except for the landlord. For too long, my rental property has been squeaking by on meager cash flow. Check out my monthly investment income updates and you’ll see the regular income it generates is about $70 per month. That’s a positive number so I can’t complain too much. But in…
The Details of My Rental Property
Every quarter I update the Portfolio page to show how my passive income streams are fairing. Included is the amount of money I make on my rental property. In this post I’m going to give you some background and crunch the numbers to show you exactly how I calculate my cash flow. The property is…