Creative Life & Passive Income

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Passive income can help you get creative with your life. When you don't have to trade time for money, your schedule opens up quite a bit.

As Thoreau once pointed out, most people live lives of quiet desperation. If you weren't a slave to your job, what would you do with your free time? I bet you would be free to unleash your inner genius type.

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Brian Lee - Entrepreneur, Writer, Film/Video Producer

The Meaning of “Pay Yourself First”

by Brian Lee on July 26, 2010 .

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The Details on the Blue Lake Deal

2 May 2010
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We caught up with our contractor, Vernon, as he worked on Glendora; walked through Blue Lake, our latest acquisition; and made a decision on another property that we had under contract.

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The Real Estate Investor Web Series Episode 2 ~ Blue Lake

21 April 2010

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The Easiest $7,500 I Ever Made

15 April 2010
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Last week I did something that I never before imagined was possible. I made more money with a few phone calls than I did in my entire first year as a blogger.

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The Six Ways Real Estate Investing Makes You Money

12 April 2010
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I’ve made several comments over the years recommending real estate investing as the most powerful form of passive income.

The reason it’s so powerful compared to other passive income sources such as stocks, blogging, or bulk candy vending is: there are six ways it makes you money.

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The Details of The Glendora Deal

9 April 2010
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Last week, I released The Real Estate Investor Web Series, a reality-style show that follows my business partner Shauwn and I as we acquire rental real estate. The episode focused on the Glendora Deal, a nice little bread and butter rental property in San Antonio. People loved the video, but they wanted to see more [...]

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Geniustypes.com has a New Look and Tour!

5 April 2010
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I’m pleased to announce a new look for geniustypes.com including a tour! The new layout is meant to be a cleaner and more intuitive way to navigate all the articles I’ve written over the last three years. As you may know, geniustypes.com covers a wide range of topics from creative life to passive income. Keeping [...]

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The Real Estate Investor Web Series ~ Episode 1

29 March 2010
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A Day in the Life of Real Estate Investor Brant Phillips

15 March 2010

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Transference of Emotion is the Key to Marketing

28 February 2010
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A very wise man and mentor, Steve Davis, once taught me that the key to marketing is not what you say, but how well you can transfer emotion to your audience.

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Pay Yourself First: The Equity Goose and The Cashflow Golden Egg

14 February 2010
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I find it interesting that wisdom is often clearly laid out before everyone in a book or a lecture, and few truly understand it. It’s just as Napoleon Hill wrote in “Think and Grow Rich” when he hinted that one needs to re-read the book several times; and even then, the wisdom can only be captured when a person is ready to hear it.

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How to Invest in Real Estate With No Money or Unlimited Money

8 February 2010
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One of the greatest things about real estate investing is that anyone can do it. People think they need money or credit to become a real estate investor, but that is simply not the case.

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How 15 Rent Houses Can Retire You Faster than a $1 Million 401k

18 January 2010
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Is $200 a month a lot of money?

How you answer this question speaks to your level of financial sophistication.

How Far Would You Go for $200?

Most people would not go very far out of their way to make an extra $200 a month. When compared to a monthly salary of $3,000 or $4,000; $200 sounds pretty insignificant.

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David Fisher’s 1st Investment Property Captures $29k in Equity

18 December 2009

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How Real Estate Investor Robert Hammond Bought 74 Houses in Less Than 2 Years

9 August 2009

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Real Estate Investor Case Study: Karen Davis’s 6th Rental Property

12 May 2009

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Five Ways to Avoid a Nasty CC Email Battle

13 April 2009
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Have you ever been a little frustrated with a co-worker and wrote an email to express your concerns; and instead of reading your calm, yet concerned tone, the co-worker read a little more attitude than you intended and snapped of an even more explosive email with three other co-workers and two supervisors CC’d?

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Building a Mastermind Group for Real Estate Investing

23 March 2009
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A little over a year ago, I joined a real estate investing and mentoring group called Lifestyles Unlimited. Even though I had read a tremendous amount of literature on passive income sources including real estate, I finally realized that Andrew Carnegie and Napoleon Hill were right in “Think and Grow Rich”.

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Rui, Guest Real Estate Investor

12 January 2009
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Rui is the guest today. He is a real estate investor living in Southern California with two single family homes under contract in Houston, each with over $300 cashflow per month.

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Stiff vs. Suit for your Day Job

18 December 2008
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Here’s one you may not have considered: Is it better to be a working stiff or a suit if you’re an entrepreneur who’d rather be working for himself than the man anyway?

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The Passive Income Trap

10 December 2008
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Be careful when you read Kiyosaki, Robert Allen, or any of the army of gurus preaching that passive income will end all your troubles. The overall concept of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” is profound, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. Don’t quit your day job yet.

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