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Passive Income Definition: Passive Income Types & How to Create It

Passive Income Definition: Passive Income Types & How to Create It

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Dec 21, 2021 | Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog | 17 comments

Going to work every day and getting a paycheck every two weeks? That’s active income. Being self-employed? Freelance work and side gigs? Those are active income, too. Active income is money that you have to work in order to earn, on an ongoing basis. It’s trading time...
What Is Savings Rate? Free Savings Rate Calculator for Retirement

What Is Savings Rate? Free Savings Rate Calculator for Retirement

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Apr 4, 2022 | FIRE, Fun & Travel, Personal Finance, Spark Blog | 4 comments

No matter how much you earn, you won’t build wealth if you spend every penny you bring in. A person who earns $75,000 and saves $25,000 per year will create wealth faster than someone who earns $1,000,000 and spends $995,000 of it. Flashy cars and imposing homes may...
What’s More Important, ROI or Savings Rate? New Study Offers Surprise Answer

What’s More Important, ROI or Savings Rate? New Study Offers Surprise Answer

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Jun 3, 2019 | Personal Finance, Real Estate News, Spark Blog | 10 comments

  What has a greater impact on your wealth, your savings rate or the returns you earn on your investments? A recent analysis by Pension Partners offers some decisive proof that savings rate trumps ROI, demonstrating that discipline matters more than clever...
Tim, Who Lives for Free: A House Hacking Case Study

Tim, Who Lives for Free: A House Hacking Case Study

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Apr 8, 2022 | Personal Finance, Real Estate Investing, Spark Blog | 10 comments

Image Credit: Kgbo under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 International license   Imagine what your life would look like with no rent or mortgage payment. A smile-worthy thought, eh? Especially given that 11 million Americans spend half (!) of...
America’s Bad Financial Habits: 7 Ways to Break the Mold of Average Finances

America’s Bad Financial Habits: 7 Ways to Break the Mold of Average Finances

by G. Brian Davis | Last updated Apr 8, 2022 | Personal Finance, Real Estate News, Spark Blog | 8 comments

Image Credit: 401(k) Calculator, CC BY-NC-ND)   Did you know that over a third (34%) of Americans have no savings? Not a penny in their savings account. The news doesn’t get brighter from there. Another 35% admit to having less than $1,000 in savings; that’s not...

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