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Travel Trends Are Shifting—Here’s How It’s Impacting the Short-Term Rental Market
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- Posted on January 22, 2026
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Every few years, travel quietly changes its personality. Not in a dramatic, sky-is-falling kind of way. More like when you show up at your favorite restaurant and realize they raised […]
Controversial “Climate Risk Scores” Keep Rising—And It’s Making a Major Dent on Investor Profits in Major Markets
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 22, 2026
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Extreme weather is increasingly raining down on real estate transactions, with insurers and lenders kicking up storms and killing deals if a new metric—a climate disaster score—doesn’t offer a sunny […]
Why I’m Buying Large Multifamily in 2026 (Commercial Real Estate Outlook)
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- Posted on January 22, 2026
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We’re always talking about residential real estate. But what about that “other” market, the one worth $24 trillion? It’s no secret that commercial real estate has had one of its […]
Uniswap brings token launch auctions and price discovery to Base
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- Posted on January 22, 2026
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CCA runs fully on-chain auctions that clear bids block by block for gradual price discovery. After auctions end, liquidity is automatically added to a Uniswap v4 pool at the final cleared price. The model aims to reduce sniping, front-running, and bundled transactions during token launches. Uniswap has rolled out its Continuous Clearing Auctions (CCA) feature […]
Scott Trench’s $1,000,000 Bet on Real Estate (Update)
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 21, 2026
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Last year, Scott Trench, former BiggerPockets CEO, made a big bet on real estate—selling $1,000,000 in stocks to buy rentals instead. A year later, he’s on the show, and we’ve […]
How to Make Up to $20K/Month with Airbnb Co-Hosting (No Rentals Needed)
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- Posted on January 21, 2026
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Can’t break into real estate investing? Maybe you don’t have enough money to buy a rental property or the track record of a confident investor. Thankfully, there’s a way to […]
Bitcoin touches lows of $87,800 as gold hits new record high
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 21, 2026
- crypto
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Bitcoin fell to lows of $87,800 on Tuesday before bouncing to above $89,000. Losses for BTC came as gold hit new record high above $4,870. Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz says bulls need to take out bears around $100,000-$103,000. Bitcoin dipped to around $87,800 on Tuesday, breaking lower as risk assets struggled. However, amid waning […]
Can You Live on Half Your Income? Here’s the Playbook to Ramping Up Your Investment Potential
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- Posted on January 20, 2026
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For the last seven years, my wife and I went from basically no assets to a roughly $1 million net worth. And we did it entirely through saving money and […]
6 States Where Eviction Filings Are Highest—And What to Watch For When Investing in Them
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- Posted on January 20, 2026
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Eviction filings are up nationally, eclipsing pre-pandemic highs that could well test the rental market for years to come, while landlords struggle with elevated expenses. During and after the COVID-19 […]
Condo Prices See The Biggest Decline Since 2012—Here’s Why They’re Now a Great Cash Flow Opportunity in Today’s Market
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- Posted on January 20, 2026
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Condos could be the sleeper real estate investment you never thought you needed. If you’re looking to buy a severely discounted asset to capitalize on cash flow, a condo might […]
Everclear launches cross-chain asset settlement on Mantle, enabling 60-second wETH-to-mETH swaps
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- Posted on January 20, 2026
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Swap wETH to Mantle’s mETH from major chains in under 60 seconds. No traditional bridges, slippage, or complex onboarding steps required. Netting + rebalancing cuts liquidity fragmentation and operational costs. The blockchain industry’s liquidity fragmentation problem has a new solution. Everclear, the interoperability protocol formerly known as Connext, has launched cross-chain asset settlement on Mantle […]
Trump’s Housing Proposals Could Work, There’s Just One Big Problem
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 20, 2026
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The housing market is unaffordable. But the Trump administration is trying to change that. The question is: Will any of their proposals actually work? Trump’s housing policy is clear: make […]
MakinaFi hit by $4.1M Ethereum hack as MEV tactics suspected
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 20, 2026
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Funds were split between two wallets holding $3.3 million and $880,000. The exploit involved MEV-linked addresses and preemptive transaction timing. MakinaFi has not released a technical statement or mitigation plan. A major crypto breach has struck MakinaFi, draining millions in Ethereum from the decentralised finance platform. The incident resulted in the loss of 1,299 ETH, […]
Retire Early with Less Than 10 Rentals? Dion McNeeley’s “Boring” Strategy
- Posted by rbetz
- Posted on January 19, 2026
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Over $20,000 per month in pure cash flow from just eight rental properties—all achieved in around a decade. Dion McNeeley did it and has inspired thousands of others to repeat […]
Turning Burnout Into (Real) Financial Freedom with 7 Rentals in Just 3 Years
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- Posted on January 19, 2026
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Feel trapped at a nine-to-five job that promises “success” but robs you of all joy, peace, and freedom? Today’s guest was in the same boat, but when everything came to […]





