If you want a personal bailout, you're going to have to get it yourself and here's the first piece of advice - stop investing in Wall Street rip-off stocks. The cards are stacked against you in too many ways to mention right now and the house always wins in the end. The chance of ever creating any real wealth by that method is miniscule.

It's time to learn financial self-defense.

Walking down a dark alley in a bad neighborhood, you'd probably want to know a little about hand-to-hand combat. Let's apply that idea to your family finances. The stock market is a FAILING institution, beneficial only to the crooks, idiots, and gougers who run it. You simply cannot trust your economic future to that bunch.

For almost 40 years, the federal government has been trying to keep a dying currency on life support by wildly printing money, with nary a thought of the inflationary consequences. Anyone think they really have a clue what they're doing? We're fairly certain the government does NOT know best and is NOT looking out for your interest when it comes to creating wealth and security for you and your family. No matter your age or previous experience level, you can begin building a real estate portfolio right now, even in this crazy climate of recessive turmoil.

The phrase you want to remember is income property investing. Nothing fancy about that. We're simply talking about rental property. Landlord and tenant. That sort of thing. What you may not know is that this is historically proven to be the best investment in history. It's not a secret. Anyone can do the research. The vast majority of wealthy Americans got that way via this approach to real estate. And many of them started out with very little in the way of resources. But how does this work and why is it the best way to create life-changing wealth? Good question. Here's the answer. There are solid, simple reasons why income property investing blows stocks, bonds, and mutual funds completely out of the water. This is also true when compared to precious commodities like gold or silver.

How do you profit on Wall Street? The sarcastic answer would be "you don't" but we'll play nice. Conventional wisdom would say you buy a stock and wait for it to appreciate. IF it appreciates, which many times it doesn't. That's it. One dimension that works only during a good market. One way to succeed. Lots of ways to fail.

Now let's look at income property investing, the ultimate multi-dimensional asset. When you buy an income property, appreciation is nice but it's only icing on the cake. The other dimensions are much, much better. For starters, you can profit from income property during any market – good, bad, or indifferent. If there's one thing investors trying to create wealth for their families know, it's that the market will ALWAYS change. Take a bad market, for example. Financing is expensive and it's hard for people to qualify for loans. Fewer people will be buying houses and more will turn to rentals. As a landlord, you should welcome this increased demand as a good time to raise rents. This ability to rent it out is one of the dimensions of income properties that other investments don't have. Have you ever asked anyone if they want to rent your gold? Don't look for a thriving market in that any time soon.

Convinced yet or do you need another dimensional example? Okay, okay, okay. You twisted our arm. One of the most powerful dimensions of the real estate investment class is the ability to prudently leverage your money through loan financing. This is the one that will make you wealthy, not to mention it's the absolute best defense against inflation available.

Follow this scenario. You take the equity out of your house where it is being destroyed by the hour due to inflation and use it to make a down payment (20%) on two residential rental units that are worth $1 million. At this point you've stopped your personal economic bleeding and can now watch while the value of those two units appreciates over the next seven years to $2 million. But that's not even the best part. The bank is taking on 80% of the financial risk, your tenant is making your monthly mortgage payment, and YOU own the properties outright when it's all said and done.

And you need to be a financial guru to accomplish all this, right? That is an incorrect statement. Busy moms and dads everywhere can learn the ins and outs of this superlative investment strategy at no cost through resources like Platinum Properties Investor Network™ and The Creating Wealth Show with Jason Hartman, both of which can be found through the website

http://www.JasonHartman.com.



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