Cash-in Refinance – 16.5% Cash on Cash Return

Most of the time when you hear about refinancing it is usually along the lines of locking in a lower rate and/or cashing out during the refinance. You don’t read or hear much about a cash-in refinance and how the returns could really be worth consideration. My wife and I currently find ourselves about 10 […]
[Guest Post] Freedom Fighter Interview #22 – Tawcan

Today we have Tawcan as our guest for Freedom Fighter Interview #22. He is also our second Canadian to be featured on the blog. Can you believe he doesn’t own a TV and has been TV free for 5 years now? He is a photographer and avid dividend investor and is working to reach Financial […]
Monthly Goal Check-in #1 – @ 2/1/2016

As I write this monthly goal check-in we are officially 32 days into 2016. Most people started the year off strong with their New Years resolutions for 2016. Well, at least the 45% of people who actually set New Years resolutions (US based statistics). The low participation rate isn’t even the worst news, of those […]
January 2016 – Detailed Financial Report #13 – Net Worth $325,372 [+2.4% for 2016]

GYFG here checking in for the January monthly financial report. If you have been reading these reports for a while you will notice that I introduce each month with the same intro month after month. I do this for two reasons, a) for the newbies to the site (which make up about 50% of the sites […]
How to Launch, Grow, Measure, and Monetize a Blog Vol.1

This is your first and only warning that this post will be both EPIC in length and in detail. Over the course of the past 12 months I have been able to start, grow, measure, and monetize this very blog. A post like this would had saved me a lot of time and frustration. So today I […]
Using Options to Set Up Huge Profitability Ranges in SPY with Jade Lizard Strategy

Many of you reading this have probably never sold or traded an option in your entire investing tenure. And most probably are still fighting the dogma you have been force fed about options being weapons of mass destruction. Or that options are much more risky than stock. Or that options are purely for speculation and offer […]