Magazine Articles

Starting For Tax Year 2013 (via American’s for Tax Reform): Obamacare Surtax on Investment Income:  A new, 3.8 percent surtax on investment income earned in households making at least

         The Legacy Trust The Legacy Trust is a creation from the Tax Reform Act of 1969 which allows you to receive income each year for the rest of your life and then

Dear AOA: For the record, I just filed a complaint with the Grand Jury addressing this issue – The People’s case against the Los Angeles Housing Department (LAHD) Having read the Alameda County Grand Jury Investigation of the Berkeley RSB, it was very telling just how blatantly private business is exploited for government use. To…

Note from AOA: HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES NOW BEING PROPOSED BY YOUR REPRESENTITVES! PLEASE ACT NOW!  TELL YOUR ASSEMBLY REPRESENTATIVE “NO ON HIGHER PROPERTY TAXES!  NO ON

Dear AOA:    Many thanks for a great conference today! [Long Beach Million Dollar Trade Show and Landlording Conference]  We got so much useful information. At Mr. Duringer’s presentation, I got a huge thrill when I was awarded a Cruise Certificate for Two – what a bonus! With gratitude for all the hard work and generosity, …

“Steve, I can’t manage to buy a house,” an attendee told me over the weekend in San Diego at Everbank’s Global Currency Expo. “The last house I tried to buy had

The Great Recession officially ended in June of 2009. Yet, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently estimated that real GDP will grow by only 1.4% this year. If that proves true, America will continue its worst economic recovery in the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) data going back to 1930. I actually wrote about the…

“When I started out, I was hungry to get renters in.  My hunger for tenants cost me over $10,000–that’s how much it cost to deal with one

Goldman Sachs Recently, Goldman Sachs forecasted that by the end of 2013 the yield on the 10 year Treasury will jump to 2.40%. This is almost a 30% rise from current levels and that’s a huge increase for a supposedly riskless investment. The most likely reason is it’s an inflation adjustment, which means we should…

“You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.” This admonition accurately characterizes the spirit and intent of the Sargent Shriver Civil Counsel Act (SSCCA), implementation of which has made Californiathe first state in the nation