Mathew Owens
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CPA and Full Time Real Estate Investor Expert
Mathew Owens Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Buying Cash Flow Properties
- Career Focus
- Business owner
- Affiliation
- OCG Properties
I am a CPA and currently work about 70 hours a week but its not considered work if you love your job which I truly do. Once I attain my goals I can relax a little and enjoy but until then its hustle, hustle. I currently run my own real estate investment company purchasing positive cash flow investments and helping myself and my investors retire on passive income. My investors are getting some great returns and I have been able to put some great strategies in place to help mitigate most of the risks of investing.
I also love playing basketball and spending time with my family, sister and my girlfriend Lynn. I am addicted to traveling as well. Once you feel the travel itch its over, you just have to go everywhere in the world!
Learning and becoming a better person on an emotional, physical, mental and spiritual level is a huge driving force in my life. I really enjoy the challenge of becoming a better all around person and helping people. Money is amazing and it can provide some great benefits, but the fulfillment and happiness of being able to help others without expectation for something in return is unparalleled.
If anyone wants to find ways in which we can be resources for each other or help each other please feel free to send me a message. Its amazing how easy it is to find value for each other when two people sit down and are open minded and explore each others resources.
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The Stock Market Is The Biggest Ponzi Scheme Of All
With the stock market tumbling, many investors are looking to stable cash flow investments backed by a hard asset such as real estate. Most investors realize that the ponzi scheme of the stock market keeps investors in high risk and highly volatile investments. Simply put, its gambling! The stock market only rises if you continue to pump more money into it, just like a ponzi scheme. What do you think is going to happen when the baby boomers start to slowly take all of their money out of the stock market to live on because their investments do not cash flow well enough to retire off of?
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The Middle Class are Doing Worse in the Current So Called Economic Recovery than the Actual Recession
Newspaper headlines of late are quick to detail what little sign of national economic stability they can; some job growth here or a sign of stock market recovery there. And while it may be true that the S&P 500 is up 77 percent from the lows of March 2009–especially good for big-time stock market gamblers–median household incomes are falling at faster rates during this so-called “recovery period,” than they were during the actual recession years. As you can see from the chart below since the beginning of 2009 the median income has dropped sharply while unemployment rises significantly.
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The U.S. Debt Disease
Read any introductory college economics book you wish, most will tell you that there is no way the amount of public debt can outstrip the productive capacity of a wealthy, developed nation like the United States. Just five year ago this claim may have been plausible but at present the US has realized a public debt of over $15 trillion–an amount roughly 100 percent of GDP!
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Top 5 Reasons to Invest in Real Estate Instead of Paper Assets
(1) CONTROL - Many money managers will advise you to diversify your investments in paper assets such as mutual funds and cd's. Yet as investors search for investments with lower risk, they increase the level of risk for themselves by investing mainly in mutual funds. The problem being you have no real control over the assets value since you cannot renovate or improve its value like you would real estate.
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Top 10 Reasons Why You Should Self-Direct Your Retirement Instead Of Investing In Mutual Funds
There are thousands of so called financial advisors that tell you that you should invest in mutual funds, money market accounts, stocks, bonds and life insurance policies and diversify your retirement portfolio. This is some of the worst financial advice you can get and the general public has been duped by the large investment companies like Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and the large banks for years. These so called financial advisors that work for these big companies have very limited to no training and are not incentivized in the right ways.
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Bureaucrats, Taxes and Income
As we all have come to be aware, taxes are our single largest expense in our lives. Our hard earned tax dollars go to bureaucrats that find many creative ways to spend it as well as many creative ways to continue taxing us. However, the really rich find different ways to not pay these taxes by structuring their income sources in various ways.
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Most Real Estate Investors Invest Incorrectly
Most real estate investors invest incorrectly or at a higher risk level than needed. As we have just seen through this gigantic mortgage fiasco and the failing of multiple banks most people buy properties with the hope that they will go up in value over time and do not take into account the financial implications this puts on themselves. That type of investment objective is considered capital gain investing, investing for increases in equity on your property based on an appraiser’s opinion of value.
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A Better Perspective About Money
“Having fewer nuts does not make us better squirrels…” Given our druthers, most of us would choose to be financially independent, comfortable and free of worry about money. Most still have that choice. It’s not too late, but a shift may need to occur…
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Banks Try And Say They Are increasing Capital Buffers To Acceptable Level, But Are They Really?
There has been major debate lately regarding the financial stability of the banks. Given the large bail out of the banks coming from taxpayer money and the massive under capitalization of some of the major banks it is apparent that there is a huge need for change in some of the bank’s capital reserve structures. The banks have been getting pressure from the “Basel Committee on Banking Supervision” to increase reserves and prevent another hit to the global financial system.
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$4.8 Million Grant for Memphis
As part of a new government innovation program aptly named the Mayors Project, New York City Mayor and billionaire philanthropist Michael Bloomberg is doling out a combined $24 million in grants to five of his colleagues around the country. The grants will go to the mayors of Memphis, Tenn; Atlanta, Chicago, Louisville, Ky; and New Orleans.
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Southern Califo ia Real Estate
Riverside and San Be adino were recently rated as two of the most affordable regions in the state of Califo ia, undoubtedly due to their price collapses in real estate. This report came from the Califo ia Association of Realtors and actually used household income and home values as a measure of affordability. Looking back on the history of home values in Califo ia, the Inland Empire appears to be making its way closer to a nominal lost decade, never mind already being at an inflation adjusted one.
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Memphis Named One of Top 10 Performing Real Estate Markets
Clear Capital’s latest Home Data Index monthly Market Report named Memphis, Tennessee as one of the top 10 performing markets in the first half of 2011. The following is the complete list of high performing major markets based on data from January to June: 1. Washington D.C.-Arlington, VA. 2. New York-Long Island, N.Y.-New Jersey, N.J. 3. Orlando, FL 4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas 5. San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, Calif. 6. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass. 7. Honolulu, HI 8. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, Calif. 9. Rochester, N.Y. 10. Memphis, Tenn.
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To learn more about me, come see my website: www.ocgproperties.com
You can always find my current blogs at my website: www.ocgproperties.com/wblog
On there you can also find some of my educational and networking events on our calendars: www.ocgproperties.com/events