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G. Brian Davis is a real estate investor, personal finance writer, and travel addict mildly obsessed with FIRE. He spends nine months of the year in Abu Dhabi, and splits the rest of the year between his hometown of Baltimore and traveling the world.
Hunting for a new home? The homebuying process is exhilarating and daunting in equal measure. One minute you’re daydreaming about the perfect home, and the next you’re completely overwhelmed between finding a real estate agent, scouring home listings, calculating affordability,…
Interested in investing in real estate but feeling overwhelmed about where to begin? Any new investment is intimidating at first when you’re still struggling to learn the vocabulary, challenges, risks, and rewards. But real estate offers some compelling benefits for…
Who says you have to work until you’re 65? By merely questioning that one assumption, you crack open the door to new possibilities. The question raises others, such as: The FIRE movement attempts to address these questions by encouraging followers…
Investment properties come with an incredible number of tax advantages. In addition to all the deductible expenses, real estate investors enjoy far more tax benefits than the typical side hustle allows. In my home city of Baltimore, a self-employed person…
It’s easy to get stuck in the habit of overspending. Making quick trips to the expensive corner store rather than planned weekly grocery shopping. Driving your car to places you could walk or bike to. That phone call you never…
Some households never bother to apply for a bank account, citing mistrust of the mainstream banking system or bank fees as reasons why they don’t want a bank account. Others who want a checking account found themselves refused a bank…
No, “HODL” is not a typo or misspelling. At least not anymore — it’s now a backronym, after starting as a drunken typo, then later being declared an acronym for “hold on for dear life.” It all started on a…
No matter what your skill level or income requirements are, there are remote jobs you can do from anywhere to match them. Some of the jobs below are low-skill, low-pay, and have almost no barriers to entry. Others require advanced…
For most of modern history, only the wealthy had access to investment advisors to help them manage their money. Everyone else had to muddle through on our own, often with little or no knowledge of how to invest. Today, anyone…
Cars are expensive — thank you, Captain Obvious — so most buyers finance them. But that adds a whole new set of wrinkles to the car buying process. To smooth them out, make sure you know the pitfalls and potholes…
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