This week I attended a 2-hour (free) seminar on property investing, from the Rich Dad Education company. I didn’t really know what I was going into (the agenda was very sparse), so I tried to keep an open mind (I already read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, so I was pretty sure I already knew the…
A night out – with Rich Dad (Property investing)
How to hack your charity donations
If you’ve ever walked down a busy shopping street, odds are that you at one point or another, have been solicited by one of those annoying street “sales-people”, who will try to convince you to support <insert worthy cause here>. When I was living in the city (in my 20’s) this happened to me quite…
Monthly Update #7 (March 2019) – A new beginning
Greetings and salutations, dear readers. It’s time for another monthly update (already!). Time is fun, when you’re having flies, as Kermit would say 😛 It’s been an eventful month in the Total Balance household! We spent some of our hard earned cash on some new (old) furniture, and I put some of my stash to…
Confessions of a Shopaholic
“Hi, I’m Nick and I’m a shopaholic”. OK that might be a little overly dramatic. I was never really a shopaholic. But like most of our society, I had bought into the fact that buying stuff = good! When you click that BUY-NOW button on Ebay, it instantly release a shot of dopamine in your…
Should I invest with Brickshare?
This is really a retorical question. “Should YOU invest with Brickshare?” might be a more appropriate question. As many of you know, I’m a big fan of Real Estate. I’ve been tracking a handful of major Real Estate “developers” in the country, hoping that I could invest in one of their projects. Recent developments in…
Show me your budget (and I’ll tell you who you are)
Much like your clothes, your friends, your pet(s) and your means of transportation says something about who you are, so does your budget… When I talk to people about my FIRE project (it happens a lot, according to my wife), they often react as though I’ve just told them that they can’t have coffee again….
Time to up the ante!
Less than 3 months have passed of 2019, and already I feel it’s time… – It’s time to step up my game! When it became apparent to me last month that the rules of the passive real estate investment game in Denmark appeared to have changed, I decided it was time to throw a little more…
Gambling vs. Calculated risk
I don’t consider myself a gambler. I take calculated risks – there’s a difference. I’ve been playing with the idea of this post in my mind for a while, and decided it was time to get it out there. It’s likely that I’m going to regret it somewhere down the line, as someone is most…
Monthly Update #6 (February 2019) – Hello…Spring?
It’s my favorite time of the month! – Time to look back on the month that passed! I was really feeling the heat in February (it was double digits outside!) – and it was not just because of my vacation. The weather once again broke all sorts of records. On the financial front however, no records were…
“Budget” traveling
I’m stretching the word “Budget” here, as our typical vacations aren’t really what most people would consider cheap. However, given our new found love for the FIRE, we’ve been trying to scale down on the “luxury traveling”, and now spend an awful lot of time, trying to find the best “value for money” vacation spots….