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Raise Your Children as Good Entrepreneurs, Not Good Employees

Raise Your Children as Good Entrepreneurs, Not Good Employees

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Apr 6, 2021 | Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog | 8 comments

  Pause for a moment and consider what makes a good employee. Obedience? Check. Willingness to work long hours creating wealth for someone else? Check. Accepting a job and income controlled by others? Check. Now think about what makes a good entrepreneur....
State Taxes Comparison: Are Americans Fleeing High-Tax States in 2021?

State Taxes Comparison: Are Americans Fleeing High-Tax States in 2021?

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Feb 10, 2021 | Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News, Spark Blog | 21 comments

It turns out Americans really do vote with their feet – especially when it comes to state tax rates. United Van Lines releases a report every year on the prior year’s migration patterns within the U.S. In January 2021, they issued their 2020 report, and the data is...
Lifestyle Design: Intentional Living to Create Your Perfect Life

Lifestyle Design: Intentional Living to Create Your Perfect Life

by Emma Dudley | Last updated Feb 2, 2021 | FIRE, Fun & Travel, Personal Finance, Spark Blog | 3 comments

Are you living your dream life?  Are you living out the goals you’ve set for yourself? Genuinely happy with the way that your life has panned out? If so, please write a bestselling book so we can all learn how you did it!  If not, you are not alone. We all have goals,...
Rental Property Deduction Checklist: 21 Tax Deductions for Landlords in 2021

Rental Property Deduction Checklist: 21 Tax Deductions for Landlords in 2021

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jan 13, 2021 | General Property Management, Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog | 63 comments

Real estate comes with some of the best tax advantages in the world. Landlord tax deductions include just about every conceivable expense associated with rental properties – plus some just-on-paper expenses. But tax laws change fast, so investors need to stay on top...
Should You Pay Off Student Loans or Buy a House?

Should You Pay Off Student Loans or Buy a House?

by Emma Dudley | Last updated Jan 12, 2021 | Personal Finance, Spark Blog | 2 comments

You’re not alone. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of today’s college students graduate with student loan debt. And as they enter the workforce, get married, and have children, sooner or later they ask the same question: Should I pay off student loans or buy a house?  Some...
10 Financial Lessons from Star Wars: The Mandalorian

10 Financial Lessons from Star Wars: The Mandalorian

by Guest Author | Last updated Dec 28, 2020 | Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog | 5 comments

Master Yoda once said, “What you have learned, always pass on.” Or something like that.  Like Yoda, The Child (aka Baby Yoda or Grogu) in “The Mandalorian” already knows how to use the Force. Let him become your teacher — and learn, too, from the title character, the...
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Denise Supplee is a landlord and former property manager, with over a decade's experience in legal forms for landlords and property managers. She's also a champion mom and licensed realtor.


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G. Brian Davis is a landlord and real estate investor with 15 rental properties. Husband, rental industry expert and compulsive traveler, Brian visited ten countries last year.


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