During our lunch break at the office yesterday, I begged off from doing something which I have dreaded for the past 12 years in the corporate world, Christmas party presentations! You might be asking what the heck does this have to do with investing in foreclosures in the Philippines? Read on to find out. Read the rest of this entry

In this post I will share how I compute for the monthly amortization payment for foreclosed properties without the need to use any special mortgage calculator. By the way, this would also work for installment loans for assets other than real estate where the monthly amortization payments also contain both principal and interest.

If you’re a real estate investor or if you want to become one, I’m pretty sure you’re interested to learn how a loan calculator or mortgage calculater works or at the very least, you want to learn how to calculate for monthly amortization payments. If you lack any interest on mortgage calculators or if you are simply afraid of numbers, I’m really sorry but you have no choice but to learn this. Real estate investing is a numbers game and one number that you need to know is the monthly amortization you will have to pay for a foreclosed property that you are looking at. It will help determine if an investment property will produce a positive cashflow. Without positive cashflow, you will have no passive income, and you can kiss your dreams of becoming financially-free goodbye… Read the rest of this entry

This is the third part of a series on Managing Finances. If you have not read the first 2 parts, head on over to Part 1 and Part 2!

In part 2 of my series of posts on managing finances, I mentioned that I would be discussing more about how I tracked my expenses and the tools I used to do these. For now, I’ll just focus on how I track my expenses. This is not rocket science.  I only need to record exactly where my money is going, particularly my cash on hand. Based on experience, this is where my money gets “lost”.

How many times have you wondered where your money went when it was still more than a week to go before payday?! Have you ever tried but failed to remember exactly where you spent your money? Get my point?!

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