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You don’t need to own land to become a landlord, let me show you how using a case study. Description Workings Plot size 50 x 100 or 0.045 ha or 450 sq meters Type of house Bedsitters / studio apartments No of levels One floor Size of each unit 17[…]
A government bond is a debt security issued by a government to support government spending and obligations. Investopedia.com In my understanding, a government bond is where the Government borrows money for infrastructure and recurrent expenses like paying salaries etc. They call it budgetary support. Imagine having to borrow money to consume and[…]
I had a conversation with a furniture and interior designer about business growth. She has made some great furniture pieces for my house. Her business is called Tira studio and she has a showroom on Ngong road. Check out their website https://www.tirastudio.co.ke/ for their end of year clearance sale on[…]
With the new normal and reality that Covid 19 has introduced, we need to be versatile and not act “normarrry” even when it comes to spending the little money that’s still circulating in the economy. We all know of a person or family that has had to move out of[…]
At various stages in life, there are certain things that you consider as a “rite of passage”. Let’s take a few examples When you are in high school, you want to finish and go to the university. When you are in the university, you want to graduate and get[…]
This Covid19 season has taught us that only the versatile survive. Nothing is certain but death and taxes. Benjamin Franklin 1789 Versatile will have the meaning of multipurpose or adaptable. What does versatile look like in real estate? Residential house If you are planning on building a residential house,[…]
In the spring of 1822 an employee in one of the world’s first offices – that of the East India Company in London – sat down to write a letter to a friend. If the man was excited to be working in a building that was revolutionary, or thrilled to[…]
If you own a home, you’ve probably been sold on the benefits of a shorter mortgage or heard it’s wise to pay more than the minimum so you can pay it off sooner. I was actually exposed to this idea before I owned a home, in my high school math class, when[…]
What is valuation? The valuation of property has long been characterised as both an art and a science: an art because of the need to make value judgments concerning the intangible features that attract certain buyers; a science because it is possible to establish trends and analyse how these are[…]
When I wrote an article a few months ago about how to protect against colossal loss in a strange investment environment, little did I know that a major sell-off was just around the corner. My argument was based solely on the combination of very optimistic market prices and general investor complacency about[…]