I'm Back From the Dead!

CRIME: Don't you ever start a blog and then let it slumber! It makes you look very un-blogger like, undedicated, and dilettante. How can you possibly be taken seriously?

HOW DO I PLEAD?: Guilty as charged. I throw myself on the mercy of the Courts of Bloggerdom. In fact, may I add for Holy Blogger Father to forgive me...for it has also been over a year since my last communion with the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, writing any editorials.

WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY FOR YOURSELF BEFORE SENTENCING? Well, gee...uh, glad you asked.

Excuuuusse meee, but I do run a legitimate business, you know! And unfortunately, or fortunately, the last bit of PR, writing, and promoting I had done, along with launching my radio show with Chuck Gebert, Straight Talk Real Estate, (KRLA 870AM, Sundays 6:00pm) has just kept me swamped with simply caring for my own clients. You know, the unglamorous stuff like crunching numbers and designing strategic financial plans. (Not really, it's actually fun working in the mad laboratory of financial planning, as nerdy as that may sound.)

And I'm not writing again now because business is slow, either. But - manna from Heaven- I have a new Marketing Director, Eric, who is taking half of my duties away from me and handling all of our promotion and public relations. Eric just points me in a direction now and says "Write", "Speak to the audience", ""Go to the studio", "Roll over", "Play dead", "Write me a paycheck".

But I have to tell you - Man, have I been SO YEARNING to have written you. SO MUCH has been going on since I was last keeping this blog.

• Stock market booms and crashes
  
• Tanking credit market
  
• Tanking real estate
  
• Weak dollar
  
• High oil
  
• Inflation or no inflation on the loom?
• Taxes almost sure to climb with the next political administration and over the coming decades
  

Don't think I haven't brought a stack of news articles into the office to post to our website
news section. (That's also way behind on being kept up to date.) But believe me, I read the same things you read, and the same things keep me up at night as do you. I believe, though, that I do have the advantage of being in a profession where I can spend the time to study these developments, study what financial strategies are being promoted, and tear them apart a bit.

So that's what I want to do for you in the coming weeks and months with this blog. With my plate a little less loaded, and with Eric's prodding, I want to see if I can't break down many of these events for you and the fear they generate, and perhaps point you in a direction of some shelter from the storm in the coming years.

Essentially, my business focuses on risk management.

On December 8th in Glendale, we're holding a seminar in my office entitled

The NEW RULES OF HOME EQUITY and INVESTING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES

In it we'll cover:

· How to Lock-In Your Home Equity Values NOW in a declining Real Estate Market

· How to enjoy the portfolio growth of the stock market when it rises, and guarantee against loss in down years.

· How to exploit the ebb and flow of capital between real estate and the stock market, without ever having to time the markets.

· How to ensure you get the best potential gains out of Asia, Europe or America, without having to “bet on the horse” until the race is over!

· How to guarantee 140% of the S&P 500 growth annually in your portfolio.

· How to make it all tax-free, and ignore the tax hatchet sure to come in the next 10-20 years.

In my blog, I'll start to actually break down these bullet points one at a time, and give you some preview and hopefully generate some discussion, of what we cover in the seminar. Your readership and your contribution will be great appreciated.