by Athena Paquette | Aug 27, 2017 | Blog, Featured
You have an investment property you naturally think that you’re making money. But the truth is, many people actually lose money by accident. As an investment advisor, I see many people mistakenly falling into the California (CA) bank trap. What’s a CA bank? It’s the...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog, Featured
This week we had a couple of market-moving numbers, but ended flat. When you watch the bond market like we do, it gets exciting and can foreshadow things to come, such as higher rates. Tuesday we had the July retail sales number coming in much stronger than expected...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 20, 2017 | Blog, Featured
One of my longtime clients and loudest advocates referred her co-worker almost 2 years ago to refinance her home. She started to get her paperwork together and would get side tracked. Life presented all kinds of hurdles and so it took until June of this year to get...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured
Some of you asked about the note I was buying, so I thought an update would be good. For those of you who missed it here is a recap: I bought a note for $30,000 in April on a duplex in Indianapolis. This is a non-performing note, meaning that the borrower is not...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured
It was a quiet week this week in economic news. The sale of the bonds was as expected. No surprises. Wednesday the Q2 Productivity went up stronger than expected, at 0.9%, and the unit labor costs were up 0.6%. The July PPI was DOWN 0.1%, which was slightly mortgage...
by Athena Paquette | Aug 13, 2017 | Blog, Featured
A client called me this week on a property he was buying in Las Vegas. He was buying it from a “turnkey” company. This is a company or even a single investor who buys property, fixes them a little (paint and carpet and maybe a new door and grass, even fake grass in...
