Quotes of the Day

As an investor, you may begin to feel frustrated when you haven't written any offers in a while. However, that simply says you are following your system and waiting until you find a property that does fit your system. [2009] - Don R. Campbell

One of the things you can do to prevent difficult rent increase conversations is by having the rent increase talk at the very beginning when you have your tenant sign the lease agreement. Since most landlords don't have this conversation, let me suggest another alternative. Give your tenant 6 months advance notice before you increase the rent. If the tenant asks why, just explain that strata fees are going up, property taxes are too, inflation, etc... [2015] - Gary Wong

To make sure you can move quickly to borrow if needed, keep an eye on your current ratio (assets over liabilities--at least 2:1 is good) and quick ratios (liquid assets divided by current liabilities--should be over 1:1). [2000] - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Most of the thyroid cancers detected in screening do not require treatment. Finding and treating early disease is not useful. Only reducing the incidence of late-stage disease is useful, and these are not necessarily the same thing due to the occurrence of early metastasis. By some estimates, as many as one third of all adults have evidence of thyroid cancer, but the vast majority of these cancers do not produce symptoms or cause health problems. Finding and treating cancers that don’t need to be treated is not a useful strategy. [2020] - Jason Fung

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, or MBCT, helps people out of the gap between how we feel and how we want to feel. It combines traditional strategies of cognitive therapy with mindfulness practices. Cognitive therapy helps you change distorted thoughts; mindfulness helps you change how you relate to your thoughts in the first place. MBCT is potent against that great threat to your telomeres, major depression. It's been show to be as effective as an antidepressant. [2017] - Elizabeth Blackburn