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How Many Income Producing Assets Do You Have?

How many income producing assets do you have? Your house, car, clothes, paintings, motorcycle, and boat are not income producing assets.

In fact most of those assets cost money to maintain and operate. If your pay check is your only source of income you might be in trouble. What would happen if you lost your job? How long could you survive without a pay check?

If you are not happy with those answers then you need to start acquiring income producing assets. Quality dividend paying stocks are ex…

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The World’s Greatest Tenant

Tenants pay rent, and the rent you earn is the return on your investment. I have found the world’s greatest tenant, and you too can find this tenant! This tenant I've found:

  • does not call me at 2am to complain about a leaky toilet
  • does not have loud parties, or disturb other tenants
  • does not damage my property
  • does not pay partial rent, and promise to pay the rest later
  • always pays her rent on time
  • actually pays me more year after year

I have found the world’s greatest tenant, and I c…

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Which Company Has Increased Their Dividend Over 1000%?

In late 2002 this stock was selling for about $15 to $18 a share, and the dividend was $0.19 per share. Remember a dividend is a cash payment made to all share holders. So if you bought 500 shares in this company back in 2002 for $15 each, you would receive $95 (500 shares x $0.19) in dividends just for owning those shares.

As a result of dividend increases over the years for this stock, the dividend today is $3.08. Which represents an increase of over 1000% since 2002, $0.19 per share to $3.08…

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Your Friend Just Gave You a Hot Stock Tip. What do you do?

A friend, colleague or relative just gave you a hot stock tip. What should you do? Should you run out and go buy this stock? No! The simple answer is, “Thanks, I’ll look into it”.


Buying a stock, bond, mutual fund, or any other investment without doing your own research is not investing it is speculating. Your goal is to maximize your returns, and minimize your risk. The only way to achieve that goal is to do your own research. This research doesn’t have to take long. Here are some basic ques…

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Can You Learn Investing From a 106 Year Old?

Irving Kahn is an American value investor and money manager and the oldest living active investment professional at 106. He was an early disciple of Benjamin Graham, the creator of the value investing methodology. In his own words, here is some investing wisdom:

"You stick to value, to Benjamin Graham, the man who wrote the bible for the market. It’s a mistake to believe you can do more, I warn you. John Maynard Keynes was one of the most famous economists in history. He was a genius, but he fa…

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Think a Lot of Companies Don't Increase Dividends? Think Again!

I love dividends, and I love them even more when they increase. Increasing dividends means more money in your pocket. A solid stream of increasing passive income! Here are some recent dividend increases:

US COMPANIES Amcol Int'l ACO $0.20 from $0.18, increase of 11.11%

Smith, A.O.  AOS$0.20 from $0.16, increase of 25.00%

Am States Water AWR$0.355 from $0.28, increase of 26.79%

Baxter Int'l BAX$0.45 from $0.335, increase of 34.33%

Badger Meter Inc BMI$0.17 from $0.16, increase of 6.25%

Cate…

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When It Comes to Investing, Should You Ignore the Media?

Should you ignore the media?

By media I mean television, radio, magazines, newspapers and internet news, and financial analysts. When it comes to investing your hard earned money, the answer is “yes”! If you want to invest successfully you need to learn to ignore the media, there is just too much noise out there. You have to understand that the media exists to make money for themselves first and foremost. Just like any corporation they exist to generate profits, and they do this by selling adve…

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Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Simply Investing But Were Afraid To Ask (Top 13 Questions!)

1. What exactly is the Simply Investing course?

The Simply Investing course is an online video course created by me, to teach you how to invest successfully. I teach the principles of value investing with a focus on dividends. The same techniques used by successful investors like Warren Buffett, Benjamin Graham, David Dodd, and John Templeton. In the course I teach you in plain English:

  • the basics (what is a stock, stock market, and dividends)
  • how to find great stocks, and avoid the bad one…

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Are Your Investments Making You Money? Are You Happy With The Results?

Are Your Investments Making You Money?

Are You Happy With The Results?

Will You Have Enough to Retire?

Can You Quit Working?

If you answered “No” to any of the above questions, then the time to act is now. I know life is busy and it’s easy to put off investing for a few years, but before you know it’ll be too late. That is right; there comes a point in time where it’s too late to begin investing!

Waiting 5, 10, 15 years or till you retire to start investing will be too late to earn sufficie…

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When is the best time to buy stocks?

When is the best time to buy stocks? Should you try and time the market? No, market timing doesn’t work. It is always a good time to buy quality dividend paying stocks when they are undervalued. No one can predict the future. Analysts, financial experts are no good at predicting the future than you and I.

Therefore it is impossible for you to time the stock market, and try to buy stocks at specific times. Attempting to time stock purchases would be a full-time activity and you would be staring …

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