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In This Article This article is presented by RentRedi. There’s a big difference between working in and on your business. When you bought your first rental property, doing everything yourself probably felt right. You knew the tenants, collected rent, patched the drywall, and scheduled the pest control.  Being a self-managing landlord is no joke, and it’s definitely not for everyone. If you’re constantly texting tenants, manually tracking rent payments, and spending your weekends fixing leaky toilets, you start feeling like you’re being spread too thin. Instead of growing your cash flow, you might be just trying to survive the week.…

Three lessons in unretirement.

SoFi Bank’s latest card launch may be welcome news for those who make frequent supermarket sweeps.The new $0-annual-fee SoFi Smart Card earns an uncapped 5% cash back at grocery stores, which is among the best rates on the market in one of the biggest spending categories for many shoppers. Technically, you earn 5 SoFi “reward points” per $1, but those points are worth 1 cent each. Redemption options include a deposit into a SoFi checking and savings account, a statement credit, or as payment toward any SoFi loans. However, there are some caveats to be aware of: Because it’s a…

Published: Dec. 10, 2025 at 11:39 a.m. ETEnthusiasm for custom chips made by Broadcom has been sweeping Wall Street going into the company’s earnings report on Thursday, and some analysts are keeping an upbeat outlook for its next few years.The custom-chip maker’s stock AVGO has gained in recent weeks after Alphabet’s Google GOOGL GOOG unveiled its latest Gemini 3 artificial-intelligence model, which was trained with and runs on its in-house tensor processing units, or TPUs. Google and Broadcom have worked together on the product for about a decade. TPUs are one type of application-specific integrated circuit, or ASIC, that Broadcom develops…

We know you’ve been thinking about it. Dreaming about it. Talking to your spouse, friends, and family about it. Take our advice: don’t do it…yet.Obviously, we’re talking about the one thing every real estate investor is after: quitting your job. It’s the goal of every rental property owner to have enough real estate cash flow to pay for your life, tell your boss it’s over, and walk out the door, fading away into the sunset.But quitting your job for rentals could add years to your financial freedom timeline, limit your ability to scale your real estate portfolio, and force you…

Published: Dec. 10, 2025 at 10:31 a.m. ETAmazon.com is heading into the new year with significant momentum, according to TD Cowen, which just named the tech giant its top mega-capitalization internet pick.In a Wednesday note, analyst John Blackledge highlighted Amazon’s AMZN cloud growth, e-commerce and advertising businesses, as well as a continued increase in profitability, as drivers of upside for the stock.

Yes, mortgage interest rates are higher today, but only by a little. The average interest rate on a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage rose to 6.15% APR, according to rates provided to NerdWallet by Zillow. This is four basis points higher than yesterday and 14 basis points higher than a week ago. (See our chart below for more specifics.) A basis point is one one-hundredth of a percentage point.If you’re watching this space closely waiting for mortgage rates to fall, don’t be too discouraged. Lenders adjust their advertised rates throughout the day, so mortgage rates’ reaction to any news — good or…

President Donald Trump will begin the final interviews of candidates for the Federal Reserve chair this week, putting back on track the formal selection process that began this summer.”We’re going to be looking at a couple different people, but I have a pretty good idea of who I want,” Trump said Tuesday night aboard Air Force One to reporters. The interviews by Trump and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will begin with former Fed Governor Kevin Warsh on Wednesday and also include Kevin Hassett, the director of the National Economic Council, at some point, according to two sources. It restarts the…

Many rookies assume it’s easier to buy a rental property in their own market, but today’s guest proved you don’t need to by taking down his first deal in another area of the country, sight unseen. And good thing he did, because it not only pocketed him $250,000 but also gave him the confidence to leave his W2 job, move to another country, and go all in on real estate investing!Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Stephen Keighery was living in one of the most unaffordable cities in Australia when he decided to try his hand in another…

Health insurers increasingly employ the doctors who provide the medical care they pay for, creating a conflict of interest.