Shield your investments from Wall Street’s bad behavior with real estate.

There’s no other way around it. We spend a lot of time bashing Wall Street’s bad behavior because we believe it’s warranted. The brokers and fund managers will happily sell you low quality, trash investments that will NOT make you wealthy. We’re of the opinion that the other side, real estate, the side that actually [...]

The dark heart of Wall Street.

Upon further reflection, perhaps we shouldn’t be so hard on an innocent little concrete corridor passing through the heart of New York City. It’s not the street that’s the problem. It’s the shysters, financial deviants, and outright criminals who ply their trade via the stock exchange located there that cause the trouble.
The reason we at [...]

What’s reasonable rent for your property?

This one is a biggie. You finally decided to take action through Platinum Properties Investor Network and start using real estate investing to create the level of wealth that makes you veerrry comfortable. You know from reading hundreds of blog post and listening to dozens of hours of The Creating Wealth Show that rental property [...]

Do you play the blame game?

This week on The Creating Wealth Show, Jason Hartman took up the topic of personal responsibility with guest John Miller, an organizational and development expert. Personal responsibility, or lack of accountability, seems to be suffering an outbreak of epic proportions these days. The result is procrastination, complaining, and blame.
This is no joke. Grown adults exist [...]

The value of packaged commodities.

We live in strange times. It’s only been recently, relatively speaking, that the use of paper currency came into vogue and, even MORE recently, that the dollar has not been backed up by an equal amount of gold in a vault somewhere.
This idea lies at the crux of our unwavering belief that true investment value [...]

Stock brokers aren’t COMPETELY wrong.

Here at the offices of Platinum Properties Investor Network, Wall Street is a favorite whipping boy, and with good reason. The lame class of assets (stocks, bonds, mutual funds) they peddle haven’t worked well in the past, aren’t working now, and won’t work in the future. We’re fairly certain of this because we’ve seen the [...]

Borrowing is good.

Like many in previous generations, you might have been raised to believe that borrowing is bad or, if not bad, at least something that should leave a slightly bad taste in your mouth. If that describes you, then get ready to open your mind to rich new possibilities that should get you a little bit [...]

Why do we say “Refi ’til ya die!”?

We recently mentioned that the Platinum Properties Investor Network believes in a real estate strategy that is exactly opposite of flipping. We think that the strategy of buying and holding prudent rental properties over a long period of time offers tremendous advantages, one of which is the ability to refinance your loan mortgage time and [...]

The problem with flipping…

If you’ve been a follower of Jason Hartman and Platinum Properties Investor Network’s style of investing for any length of time, you know we don’t believe flipping properties is the best approach for creating wealth in real estate.
There are several reasons we think this way but let’s consider a single one – taxes. Part of [...]

Why it’s good to be a control freak.

When it comes to your real estate investments, it’s good to be a control freak. This is not what talking head hosts will tell you on the cable financial shows. They want you to drink the Wall Street Kool-Aid and do your best zombie imitation as you follow the broker of your choice’s advice down [...]

Back to basics.

Here at Platinum Properties Investors Network, we talk about the value of a real estate education. In fact, it happens to be one of Jason’s 10 Commandments of Successful Investing, occupying the #1 position, so he must think it’s pretty important.
But when we talk about the importance of education, it’s not all about collecting certificates [...]

Master’s Weekend – early warning.

Twice a year, Platinum Properties Investor Network hosts a premium educational event designed to transform wannabe income property investors into actual landlords. Why do we suggest income property (rentals)? In our opinion, and it is backed up by historical numbers, this is the most successful form of investing on the planet. Most of the wealthy [...]

The greatest Ponzi Schemes ever.

The term Ponzi Scheme, named for Italian-American, Charles Ponzi, back in 1920, describes an investment flim-flam that requires an ever-increasing volume of cash to stay afloat. The influx of new investor money is used to pay original investors and to line the pocket of the person that started the whole thing. The problem is, the [...]

Destroyer of currencies.

Here’s a question for you. Fill in the blank.
“My government is ___”
A. criminally stupid
B. criminally criminal
C. criminally insane
D. desperate
E. all of the above and then some
At Platinum Properties Investor Network, we would like to make a case for answer D. For quite some time now, it appears our politicians and others who contribute to economic policy have had their [...]

Grow rich borrowing money.

We know it sounds counter-intuitive to say you can get rich borrowing money during inflationary times but, if you’ll stick with us for a few minutes, we’ll show you how it makes perfect sense. Let’s start with a simple economic truth – the value of a dollar declines over time. In fact, it declines a [...]

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