Looking for niche plays In continuing to “top off” many of my existing positions I went ahead and added 75 shares of Investors Real Estate Trust (ticker: IRET) to the DDI portfolio today. Investors Real Estate Trust is probably one REIT you’ve never heard of because it focuses on a very small niche, owning properties [...]
Think positive Think long-term On day’s like today when the markets give you a head-fake, it’s sometimes hard to remain positive. But regardless – stocks have been and will remain a LONG TERM investment. The morning started off on a positive note rising over 70 points but by day’s end there were more sellers than [...]
RISK – it’s such a scary word, especially right now. We’d all like to remove risk, right? Nobody wants to think of their investments – their “nest egg”, whether they be in stocks, bonds, gold, real estate or fine art, ever going to $ZERO. But we live with those fears everyday – some days more [...]
Monthly Income Update: July 2011 Since July is the first month of the quarter it’s a “slow” month for dividends and once again fell a little short of the $500/month target I’ve set for the DDI portfolio. With that said, the portfolio picked up a bit of steam and brought in $408.74 for the month [...]
