California has a major cultural "religion" that cuts across traditional denominational lines, the religion of real estate. Like any religion it requires faith. The religion of real estate requires blind faith in the idea that "real estate always go up."

In the unfortunate position of finding myself and my children homeless, our local authority housed us in what they call 'safe, suitable temporary accommodation'. This is where we have lived for four months now. There are two rooms and a kitchenette for myself and two teenage boys with a woefully inadequate and unhygienic shared bathroom [...]

A TIC: subscription questionnaire is a very important part of the TIC subscription process. There are a few steps involved in the process, including the TIC: subscription questionnaire, which will be discussed in more detail here.

Your co-worker has been bragging all day about his 1000% return on a stocks investment. Then you hear about your golf buddy who made millions of dollars investing in small caps. You get curious. They narrate how they invested in a few hundred penny stocks and then sold them when the prices moved up. Does [...]

Most of the members of these rooms are new traders looking for the insight of a seasoned trader to help them develop a trading strategy. There may be some experienced traders there looking to add to what they already know or just like the atmosphere of being in a trading community. As a professional day [...]

On May 22nd a new metals based Exchange Traded Fund began trading on the Amex (GDX). The new Market Vectors - Gold Miners ETF was launched by the Van Eck Global firm and trades under the ticker symbol GDX. Those who follow the Exchange Traded Fund Industry are likely to be aware of streetTRACKS [...]

In this interview the importance of a trading plan is discussed.

At 39 years of age I came into an unexpected inheritance. Not having experienced disposable income before I wanted to invest it wisely. I want to be able to enjoy this myself without jeopardising any inheritance that I could pass on to my own children. However, as soon as the news of my good [...]

So if you have searched for information on real estate investing which has led you on to reading this article then most probably you are an investor. Now with there being so many articles you really don't know what information to trust which is why I'm going to give you solid facts.

Stuart McPhee and Mark Cook tackle some stock market trading tips.