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Is My Rent Too High?

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:00:00 +0000

In normal times, rent prices, like most everything else, slowly yet surely increase at about 2-3% per year. This is inflation. But in terms of the housing market, these aren’t normal times. In the pandemic era, as demand surged in supply-restricted markets, both sale and rent prices soared, with year-over-year inflation rates at 30% or …

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A Unique Form of Real Estate Investment in a Tough Housing Economy (with Michael Farnsworth)

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 07:00:00 +0000

If you follow economic news at all, you’ve taken note of the changing conditions of the American housing economy in the last few years. First, high demand, low supply, and cheap debt fueled an extraordinary (and unhealthy) price surge. In response, the Federal Reserve ratcheted up interest rates to cool an overheated economy in the …

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Tyler Karow: The Tiny Future of Affordable Housing

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 07:00:00 +0000

I’m a little unsure of the best way to frame this introduction. In some ways, this is a story of embracing climbing for all the right reasons. Pursuit of technical mastery and love for the outdoors over the gamification of grades and emphasis on physical training. On the other hand, this is also the story …

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Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor on Building the Ideal Life

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 06:00:00 +0000

Jim Dahle is the founder of the White Coat Investor, a widely consumed personal finance and investing blog and podcast specifically designed for physicians and other high-income careers. What Jim created in 2011 as a simple blog has grown into a multi-media empire that now employs fifteen people and hosts content from a range of …

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The Great Transition of the US Housing Market

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 07:00:00 +0000

Since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020, we’ve witnessed an unparalleled explosion of price growth in all forms of housing. Until the peak in June 2022, single family home prices rose 45%. But prospective home owners weren’t the only ones biting their nails. Rents also rose over 15%, peaking in late 2022. The …

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Is the Real Estate Investment Boom Killing US Housing Affordability?

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Find me a person who can talk and you’ll find someone with an opinion on the housing market or real estate investment. And most of those opinions—even from happily settled homeowners—bear the tones of suspicion at best and downright defeat at worst. Housing prices have skyrocketed a staggering 34% nationwide over the past two years. …

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EP 30: Charitable Giving and Macroeconomics with Brice Karickhoff

Mr. Clipping Chains — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 06:00:00 +0000

Brice Karickhoff is a climber and development economist with a passion for charitable giving. In this episode we discuss the importance of balanced saving and giving, the utility of the donor-advised fund, and broader macroeconomic trends that affect us all. Topics Discussed with Brice Karickhoff Brice’s recent bouldering accomplishments and how he manages to send …

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