It’s the end of the day, and you’re closing up the cash register at your store. Assuming your business is booming, you have a lot of cash in front of you, and that can take long after closing time to tally up. However, there are other options besides sitting and counting out change and cash…
How Can The Stock Market Be Your Money Maker? Find Out, Here
America is a nation built on credit. Historically, the United States is famous for creating business opportunities and ventures, based on nothing more than agreements and trust. Nowadays, this exchange of expectation is a part of our everyday lives, such as the daily perks offered by shareholder services, pertaining to private stocks and bonds, as…
Commercial Real Estate Trends and CMBS — By the Numbers
Understanding what really goes on in the commercial real estate lending industry isn’t the simplest thing to do — but whether you’re a newbie or an experienced investor in commercial properties, it’s essential to know what’s happening in your own local market and also to have an idea about the bigger trends in commercial real…
3 of the Weirdest Lottery Coincidences of All Time
After winning the lottery, you must make some very serious, very deliberate choices. The first thing you have to decide is whether you want to accept your winnings in the form of a lottery annuity settlement, or as a lottery lump sum payout. The former would pay out smaller, lottery payments over the course of…
Small Business Lending Can Save Your Business
Small businesses drive much of America’s working economy today and add a unique charm to the areas they reside in. Since these business do not receive the same kind of funding as large businesses and chains they sometimes rely on small business lending. The Small Business The small business is an asset to any area…
3 Reasons To Sell Your Lottery Annuity
If you’ve won the lottery and you chose to receive your lottery winnings through an annuity settlement, you’re probably regretting that decision like most people do. A lottery annuity can be a great way to control finances for some people, but for the majority of people, it just gets frustrating and annoying not to have…
Home Mortgage Interest Rates Reach Historic Lows In 2015
On July 23, the Los Angeles Times lamented that after home mortgage interest rates climbed above 4%, homeowners who wanted to refinance their mortgages would be “out of luck for quite a while.” Just one week later, the U.S. Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, which you probably know better as Freddie Mac, issued its Primary…
Flip Through This Before You Flip Your First House
If you take a leisurely scroll through the on-demand video account of your choice, you will probably find several shows that deal with purchasing houses to sell at a profit. Commonly known as “house flipping,” these shows make it seem like a fairly easy process: host buys house, host fixes house in about twenty minutes,…
Top 4 Reasons To Sell Your Annuity Payments
Maybe you’ve found yourself in possession of an annuity because of a lawsuit settlement agreement, or maybe you won the lottery and chose to have the lottery winnings paid out to you in regular installments — or maybe you thought, five years ago, that purchasing an annuity was going to be your only type of…
How to Recoup the Taxes Lost When Winning the Lottery
Nobody likes paying taxes, especially not lottery winners. The lottery withholds about 25% right off the top of a prize amount for federal tax, and then — depending on the state a winner lives and his or her tax bracket — another 6-9% for state taxes. That doesn’t seem like too much, but when you…
