Aggressively pursuing a dream is the only way to write your own reality. Documenting my path of turning dreams into investments and success!
One of the most confusing parts of peer to peer lending since its inception is the tax reporting of income and losses, especially the charged-off loans we all experience. While I am certainly not a tax expert, I would like to share how I am reporting my charged-offs loans with Lending Club on my … [Read more...]
Too often in the personal finance community, there are those that battle over what it means to be retired. For some reason people can’t rationalize or comprehend that at the end of the day, the title of being retired, whether early or not, whether voluntarily still working or not, does not matter. … [Read more...]
There is something special about starting a brand new year, chasing new goals, and pursuing the dream of growing a stream of passive income to obtain financial freedom and independence. As a result, I love tracking that growing stream of income more than anything else! Every month it grows in size … [Read more...]
As I mentioned in my post last month, I am building a no-cost dividend growth portfolio throughout 2014 utilizing Loyal3. My portfolio build-up entails me putting $300 per month to work every month in whichever equity or equities that provides the best value, in my opinion, at the time of purchase. … [Read more...]
Over the past year, many retail investors have felt frozen out as the competition for notes has increased drastically in both Lending Club and Prosper. As both companies have strived to obtain institutional investments as they push for profitability and growth, the ability for individual investors … [Read more...]
While developing my investment strategy for Lending Club and Prosper for 2014, I also wanted to create some simple filters for investing as well. My thought for doing this was inspired by Peter Renton first putting out some simple filters back in 2012. He has since provided updates to these filters … [Read more...]
Would you look at that, a passive income update before the end of the next month! Victory is mine! There is something special about starting a brand new year, chasing new goals, and pursuing the dream of growing a stream of passive income to obtain financial freedom and independence. As a … [Read more...]
Getting pretty excited this week. A taste of warmer weather has me fired up and ready to get outside and play some softball and run around like a kid. For me, the winter equals the Bermuda Triangle. My soul disappears for a few months, potentially to never be seen again. Fortunately, the warmer … [Read more...]
One of the common challenges dividend growth investors face is the ability to purchase positions in cost-effective batches. Of course, your cost per transaction will vary based on which brokerage you use to invest through. For me, my two accounts with which I invest in my dividend growth portfolio … [Read more...]
Over the past 12 months, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) have been hammered repeatedly, fairly or unfairly, primarily due to interest rate concerns. For dividend growth investors, this has provided several opportunities to jump in and pick up quality positions at solid valuations. In the last … [Read more...]
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