Fawcett’s Favorites 8-24-20

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include three reasons to take social security at age 62, making your money work for you, selling … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 8-10-20

Each week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable. Every Monday I would like to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include how owning individual stocks can destroy your portfolio, how to overcome financial mistakes, making a financial … Read more

No Chicken Little, the Sky is Not Falling

I recently was part of a conversation on social media in which the following question was posed: Watching the past couple days of red in the S&P 500 is a little scary, and I am wondering what percent of people have sold vs. staying the course? Of course, many people chimed in with their comments, … Read more

Was the Recent Stock Market Drop Abnormal?

Whenever the stock market drops, even a tiny bit, everyone goes crazy. The news headlines always state a reason for the drop, whether their reason was the culprit or not. They imply one specific thing that happened in the world is responsible for the downturn. “Crisis on Wall Street as Lehman Totters,” “Worry about oil … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 4-6-20

Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include six keys to physicians coming out of retirement to help with this crisis, 30 ways to … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 3-16-20

Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include what you should know about locum tenens licensing, how a physician becomes a capitalist and not … Read more

Calculating the Optimal Down Payment for an Investment Property

In my recent book, The Doctors Guide to Real Estate Investing for Busy Professionals, I give a detailed explanation about how I was able to buy investment property with no money down. Questions came up about what is the optimum down payment for an investment property.  Since my goal in acquiring property was to put it into my portfolio for the least acquisition cost, I didn’t calculate its optimal down … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 12-30-19

Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include the story of one man who retired at 34 and failed and at age 42 he … Read more

Fawcett’s Favorites 12-23-19

Every week I run into a few articles that I feel are especially valuable, so each Monday I plan to share some of the best with you, my readers. I hope you find them helpful. This week’s favorites include an evaluation of investing in storage units, what happens to your debts when you die, why … Read more