Posts Tagged ‘real estate’
Thursday, May 27th, 2010
We talk a lot about Bug Out Locations on the show and in the forum, most listeners are more than aware by now of what they are, why you would want one and what makes a good one. Many may also be under the belief that a BOL is beyond their financial reach. Now for many a fully stocked second home full of survival goodies may very well be unaffordable in their current lifestyle, yet just about anyone can create a niece little hide away and at worse case have a bit of real estate diversifying their investments.
Join me today as we discuss…
- How cheap real raw land can be even in fertile areas
- How owning a spot of land can save you a lot of money
- When all else fails there is always the tent
- The teardrop trailer
- Converting cargo trailers
- The RV and the story of “Snob Hill”
- The underground cache – how not to have it all destroyed
- The empty shack bring your generator, propane and window unit AC
- Life underground, you can do it but you may not like it
- Encouraging native wild life, plant and animal
- The beauty of the “Danger Shooting Range” sign
- Fencing even just wire makes a difference
- The hidden entrance, easy and effective
- The importance of a TO&E and how to develop one
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
Today we are going to continue to whittle down on the massive back log of your questions and your feedback. Today we discuss a conversation with a good financial adviser, buying silver bars vs. coins, and the freedom our government officials have to do insider trading and more.
I also want to let everyone know we now have a great new product in The Survival Podcast Gear Shop. You can see my video review of it on my Youtube Channel - It is a very cool French Press Tumbler
Join me today as we discuss…
- If you avoid a massive loss in the stock market during extreme cases is that really “market timing”
- When and where does “buy and hold” make sense
- Why must you do if you are going to work with any financial adviser
- Why 20-Year Term Life Insurance is not a long term investment
- Thoughts on a carry gun for a lady and problems with a Bersa 380
- Food preservation supplies for new preppers on a very limited budget
- How do you choose between silver bars vs. coins, the answer isn’t cut and dry
- How do you get rid of poison ivy vines – it ain’t easy
- Is inside trading legal, it is if you are in congress
- Creative ideas for selling paid for real estate
- The new 1099s are coming in 2011, what does that really mean
- When it comes down to it who should you really listen to about anything
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Friday, May 21st, 2010
I decided we should extend from yesterday’s show about investing. The harsh reality is we are bombarded by financial terms in news and media every day. Often this is done as a type of class warfare that is totally lost on most of the population. Such as blaming the woes of the stock market on “naked short selling”. At times such statements are at least partially true at others they are totally false. Yet one thing is clear, 90% of the sheep that are all pissed off at the “naked short sellers” have no idea what short selling is, how it works, what it does, the risks involved, etc. They also have zero idea what it means to be “naked” on a short sale, the reason shot selling exists or how they can go short sell if they want to as well.
This is just one more component of the dumbing down of America. The media uses terms in a positive or a negative light but makes no attempt to explain them to a population they know very well doesn’t understand them. Hence people take a positive view of terms like “reform” and negative views of terms like “shorting” but they don’t really know what the terms mean at all. My view is form your own opinion, control your own money, etc. but don’t form opinions based on another person’s view of a word you don’t even truly understand.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What is a put (aka a short)
- What is a call
- What does it mean when you are “naked” in an option
- What is a derivative
- What is a P/E Ratio
- What is a dividend
- What is a DRIP
- What are Class A, B and C shares in your mutual funds
- What is an annuity
My goal in today’s show is simply to improve your financial understanding and vocabulary. I know some may not see this as a true “survival topic”. Yet given the current state of the U.S. and Global economies and the risk posed by any level of economic collapse understanding money may be one of the most important components of your future survival.
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
I get a lot of questions about investing both conventional and unconventional so today I am going to try to address both. Yet unlike the typical supposed financial guru I will discuss this from a prepper/modern survivalist view point.
In today’s show I will go over a variety of investing options, I will discuss some of the positives and negatives of each, I will explain how many of them work, the hidden problems in the most common ones and more. I WILL NOT be telling you what to invest in or how you should personally invest. I do not give financial advice on TSP I simply explain what I see in trends, how things work and the risks and rewards in different investments.
America has developed a new dependency in the last 50 years. No it isn’t enough to be dependent on systems for energy, food, medicine and a million more things, no now we are dependent on people to tell us how to hold and invest our own money. Enough is enough, time to raise your financial IQ and begin understanding things deeply enough to make your own decisions.
Join me today as we discuss…
- Why investing always means risking
- What is the only reason we invest in the first place
- Why most financial advisers simply SUCK
- Mutual funds, the good, the bad, the ugly
- Individual stocks
- Dividends – something but not everything
- Why you must “time the market” but that doesn’t make you a “trader”
- Gold and Silver don’t always glitter but they usually do
- Metal stocks vs. actual metal
- Metal stocks vs. metal ETFs
- Real estate – not low risk but it can be
- Cash – yes it looses value but at a “fixed rate” in normal times
- Foreign currencies – not really all that great, not all that bad either
- Food the one that never fails
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Thursday, April 15th, 2010
I have grown weary of the term “carbon footprint”, it drives me nuts that ever TV show, article, online video or blog post about energy independence has to use the dreaded term. So I figured today we could talk about the useful reduction of a real footprint that is to large for most of us, the dreaded tax footprint.
Join me today as we discuss…
- What is a tax footprint – how do you calculate one
- What taxes do we pay other than income, social security and medicare
- What are some of the hidden taxes we pay with out even realizing it
- Following a tax payer for a day, how much taxation does he create
- Ways to reduce your tax foot print
- Take ever legal deduction, create deductions
- Run a small business (two edges to the sword)
- Install alternative energy
- Barter when ever you can
- Grow your own food
- Buy from local growers (pay cash or barter)
- Brew beer, make wine, grow tobacco
- Drive a primary vehicle that is highly fuel efficient
- Camp when you travel
- Make sure to file homestead exemptions
- Buy rural land as an investment with low property tax
- Fight your properties assessed value
- Reload ammunition
- Cast bullets
- Invest in metal with small quantity cash buys
- Convert cash into long term assets
- Understand the concept of “cash flows = tax grows”
- Ask two questions before you spend each dollar
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Well I am off to visit the folks at Black Belt Magazine (listen to today’s show for details) and may not have a show for you every day this week. I did get up at 0430 to be sure to get today’s done before boarding the plane though.
Please Note – There may not be a show every day this week because I will be traveling working on the next edition of the martial arts DVD series of Ballistic Striking – With Val Riazanov
Join me today as we discuss…
- Will the dollar enter a death spiral
- The search engine that might know too much about you
- Keys to successful container gardening with tomatoes
- Vitamix – deal or dud?
- Thoughts on unimproved land
- How to use heavy equipment without damaging landscapes
- Raised beds and chemical leach from wood finishes
- A listener from Hemet, California explains the impact of the housing crash
- Permaculture on small yards
- JP Morgans commits silver fraud, no one seems to care, YET!
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Yesterday we discussed dying cities, today we discuss dying neighborhoods and what the two have in common. I believe that it is very important to pay close attention to your neighborhood so that you can react to the signs of death before it is too late.
Join me today as we discuss…
- The death of an “exclusive neighborhood” in California
- How neighborhoods, areas, towns actually die
- Why many never recover
- What do we learn by watching a construction worker by a 440K home
- What are the stages of death in a neighborhood
- How to you spot the cancer early
- What other causes other than stupid lending can kill a neighboorhood
- Will people “move back to the cities”
- Will people move “out to the country”
- Will people do both
- The rules of monitoring your neighborhood
- Stay flexible
- Stay light
- Pay attention
- Always be “shopping” for a new place to live
- What you can do to remain in control of your life
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Today we do sort of a two part show. I start out with a bit of commentary of a few stories, two actually related to land values and dependence on city based economies. I then move onto todays main subject, the value of rural land. I will also cover a lot of buying and negociating advice and give you some actual market prices of what is available right now.
Join me today as we discuss…
- A great post and video on ITS Tactical
- Marlin Firearms is closing their North Haven, CT plant
- Detroit is dying and the lesson we learn from it
- Why rural land has not fallen in value the way most real estate has
- Really considering the decision to go “off grid”
- Why rural land offers stability in value (monetary and lifestyle wise as well)
- Getting quotes and expert advice BEFORE you buy or even make an offer
- Having “vision” for what a property can become matched to reality of the cost and effort required
- Seeing solutions where others see problems
- Some actual prices of land in AR, MO, NM, ME, WA and CO right now
- Final thoughts on the true wealth of land ownership
Additional Resources for Today’s Show
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Today on the first day of a new month and a new week we do our regular listener feedback show. I have a huge back log of questions and comments so I may have to do a few of these this and next week just to catch up. That said keep your questions, comments and suggestions coming.
Join me today to discuss…
- Why I on occasion use words considered profane on the air (see my disclaimer here)
- Advice on choosing a rifle between at Remington, Savage and a Marlin
- Real estate rental properties as an investment
- What do you do for mulch in a place like Las Vegas
- Are mega packages of survival manual pdfs worth the cost
- How do you wake up to debt cancer before a problem does it for you
- Will silver and gold be worth anything if TSHTF and what does the bible say about this
- The trials of owning “Eskimo dogs” and where they fit in a permaculture system
- Saving pennies and nickels for “copper value” is it worth it
Resources for today’s show…
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10 Comments » Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Join me today as I discuss some self sufficiency goals that I have set for myself in 2010, along with goals I have for the show and to better serve you the audience. The show notes are brief today due to the type of show we are doing, I am not going to list my goals in the notes if you want to know them you will have to tune in.
I will be trying to inform and educate along the way too. I will be discussing some really interesting permaculture concepts, revisiting my “green greenhouse” (Bill Mollison does it better then me), ideas for people that want to start a business and more.
Resources for today’s show…
Remember to comment, chime in and tell us your thoughts, this podcast is one man’s opinion, not a lecture or sermon. Also please enter our listener appreciation contest and help spread the word about our show. Also remember you can call in your questions and comments to 866-65-THINK and you might hear yourself on the air.
