2010-11-04 01:56
Tuesday saw the end of some market uncertainty with the defeat of California’s Prop 23. Enactment of this proposition would have been a real blow to alternative energy and alternative… Read More
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2010-11-02 18:51
Every homeowner and every real estate investor should have at least a rudimentary level of plumbing. Such knowledge is useful during initial inspections(not to replace a professional inspect… Read More
2010-11-01 18:28
Solar, wind and wave power are the future of energy The upcoming elections, recent earnings reports, continued economic unrest and Prop23 in California have not been kind to my “green… Read More
2010-11-01 00:07
As an investor in both real estate and the stock market, office machines are part of my life. I regularly need to FAX documents to a bank or customer. I need to be able to receive a FAX. Bei… Read More
2010-10-30 16:32
I have been writing an on-line real estate and real estate investing column with a focus on the Saint Petersburg area for Examiner.com for nine months. I started The Zen Estate blog to share… Read More
2010-10-30 02:05
Solar power, wind power, wave power and advanced battery technology for electric vehicles are all the future of green investing. All of these industries are dependent on rare earth elements… Read More
2010-10-26 03:32
The lighting business is changing rapidly and that is creating opportunities for investors. Traditional companies are adapting rapidly or being left behind and new-tech companies are proving… Read More
2010-10-23 21:39
Rare earth elements and lithium, usually pretty far under most investors’ radar, are making headlines lately. Because of China’s huge and growing domestic electronics and solar i… Read More
2010-10-21 22:05
Today we have another guest post by Ron Robins, founder and analyst of Investing for the Soul. Ron’s post warns of some of the dangers of governments trying to manipulate currency mark… Read More
2010-10-20 00:03
MERS stands for Mortgage Electronic Registry System. This system was set up by banks and other financial institutions specifically to save themselves time and fees when selling mortgages to… Read More
2010-10-16 18:42
There is a wide, deep, blue sea of foreclosure problems just starting to be explored. Investigations into foreclosure fraud by the federal government, state governments and the lending banks… Read More
2010-10-14 12:48
This is the time for battery companies to take the lead. Many of the emerging “green” industries are dependent on electrical power storage for success. Electric vehicles and inte… Read More
2010-10-08 01:22
The pile of federal, state and local officials landing on the country’s mortgage lenders is starting to get pretty deep. State Attorneys General, the U.S. Attorney General, governors… Read More
2010-10-06 00:59
Almost every conventional financial adviser will recommend diversifying invested assets to safeguard against loss if one sector of the economy underperforms. The common advice is to split th… Read More
2010-10-02 22:39
This post is for everyone involved in any form of real estate investing. Direct investors are those who buy properties and then either rent them for monthly income or re-sell them for a one… Read More
2010-09-29 14:30
Since the very beginning of the mortgage foreclosure crisis two years ago there were rumblings of fraud by the lending institutions. A very few isolated cases of proven fraud made local news… Read More
2010-09-26 16:10
“Green” renewable energy is a popular topic in the news and with environmentally-minded stock market investors. Solar and wind production get almost all of the headlines, though… Read More
2010-09-25 01:34
I am happy to present The Zen Estate's first guest post. Mr. Ron Robbins volunteered this very interesting article about U.S. savings rates and their effects on the American and world econom… Read More
2010-09-21 18:18
The “housing crisis” in the U.S. has been a major blow to almost every homeowner, every real estate investor, every bank and financial institution writing mortgages and the finan… Read More
2010-09-17 21:59
Mining is one segment of my “green” investing strategy with which some might not agree. I would argue that mining is absolutely essential to most “green” technologies… Read More
2010-09-16 02:23
Homes in the Tampa Bay area are now selling for the same prices as ten years ago. August continued the slow downward price slide to $89 per square foot. That is 7% lower than last August and… Read More
2010-09-14 00:41
I feel quite strongly that we all need to be conscious of how we treat the planet we call home. Pollution is making breathing the air and drinking the water dangerous to our health. Modern … Read More
2010-09-06 13:35
New developments are really starting to pop in the solar power arena. Most businesses and individuals will readily admit that solar power is one of the waves of the future. They have been sl… Read More
2010-09-05 02:13
The future of lighting, all kinds of lighting, is LED’s. Only a major and totally unanticipated discovery would prevent LED’s taking the place of incandescent and fluorescent lig… Read More
2010-09-02 00:24
Batteries play a major and very under-rated role in our everyday lives. With many “green” technologies dependent on battery power storage(think electric cars and reliable, on-dem… Read More
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