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<\/a>\nHarry Newton will regale us tomorrow with the horrible story of his Blue Screen of Death and the brilliant strategies he undertook — none of which solved the problem — yet.<\/p>\n
Portland, Oregon is workable city. You can walk it and see which areas are booming and which areas are about to boom.<\/p>\n
Better yet, if you live there: you can see and feel the trends.<\/p>\n
Day jobs are fine. But they have one problem — all your eggs in one basket. You need to develop a second basket. The simplest one is own income-producing property in your own home town.<\/p>\n
I regularly visit Portland to see the kids. It’s a manageable town — like most of American towns. It’s a wonderful place to play local investor. I’ve met entrepreneurs with neat techie stuff that has made it on a national scale. I’ve met investors in buildings — residential and commercial — who have done superbly in recent years. Just by focusing on the area they know and love.<\/p>\n
Portland is your town, as New York is my town. My friend here took 35 years to assemble ownership to an entire New York city block. Now he’s developing a couple of high rises that will make his retirement assured and happy. And his children’s and grandchildren’s future assured. Ditto for my friend the real estate seller, who bought herself a bunch of apartments and is now living comfortably as her rents rise (inexorably).<\/p>\n
Do it now.<\/p>\n
Get yourself a second bow.<\/p>\n
Apple is being upgraded everywhere. There are reports that its holiday sales are doing well.<\/p>\n
IBM is collapsing. It remains a good short.<\/p>\n
It took me all day to recover from Sunday’s night red eye from Portland. Last time I do a red eye. I’m too old for that stuff.<\/p>\n