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To create residual income, you need to create something that people will continue to buy on a regular basis long after you’ve created it. A house is a prime example of this as people will continue to pay rent for the right to live in the house. A business needs to have products that are sold over and over again rather than trading the business owner’s time for money.
Many people associate work with punching the clock, the 9-to-5 slog and saving for retirement. The trouble is, an hourly rate alone will never make you wealthy and drains your most precious resource: time. Fortunately, you have alternative strategies. Unfortunately, you’ve probably never heard about them, as they’re usually reserved for the super-rich.
Rental properties are defined as passive income with a couple of exceptions. If you’re a real estate professional, any rental income you’re making counts as active income. If you’re "self-renting," meaning that you own a space and are renting it out to a corporation or partnership where you conduct business, that does not constitute passive income unless that lease had been signed before 1988, in which case you’ve been grandfathered into having that income being defined as passive. According to the IRS, "it does not matter whether or not the use is under a lease, a service contract, or some other arrangement."
It’s easy to think as passive income as money earned while sitting on a beach sipping mojitos, but there is lots of work involved, says financial coach and retired hedge fund manager Todd Tresidder. If you’re worried about being able to save enough of your earnings to meet your retirement goals, building wealth through passive income is a strategy that might appeal to you.
The organizing principle behind this grouping, appropriate economic units, is relatively simple: if the activities are located in the same geographic area; if the activities have similarities in the types of business; or if the activities are somehow interdependent, for instance, if they have the same customers, employees or use a single set of books for accounting.
Peerstreet – This residual income option is slightly different, helping you earn money using real estate backed loans instead of the property itself. By helping fund the loan, you’ll earn a percentage of the interest rate charged to the borrower. Most loans are short-term, generally lasting between 6 and 24 months. You can build your own portfolio by choosing the exact loans you’d like to fund, or Peerstreet will choose the loans for you. Again, you need to be an accredited investor, although the minimum investment here is just $1,000.
With $200,000 a year in passive income, I would have enough income to provide for a family of up to four in San Francisco, given we bought a modest home in 2014. Now that we have a son, I'm happy to say that $200,000 indeed does seem like enough, especially if we can win the public-school lottery to avoid paying $20,000 to $50,000 a year in private-school tuition.
First: I understand why you would say that such investments are restricted to only accredited investors, because generally, that’s true. There are means, under federal securities regulations and Blue Sky laws in each state, to sell interests to non-accredited investors – but usually those means are so heavily regulated and involve disclosures so similar to cumbersome registration requirements that it is not worth it for the seller to offer to non-accredited investors.
Some people feel fatigued and lack energy, but they're not sure why. Odds are the water you drink from the tap is at least somewhat to blame. There are often additives and contaminants people aren't aware of which can lead to ongoing health problems. Change the water you drink! One of these devices will purge water of impurities, but it’ll retain the naturally-occurring nutrients you need. I’m happy to answer the questions you’ve got about the process, and you’ll soon see the same results for yourself.
It's a relatively simple approach to generating passive income, and a pretty lucrative one at that: A recent survey found that nearly nine in 10 publishers consider affiliate programs to be a key part of their overall marketing strategy, contributing to about 20 percent of their annual revenue on average. However, many publishers can get tripped up when it comes to setting up an affiliate store from scratch. With a variety of programs and products to choose from, how do you know which one(s) will best reflect your site and your audience?
A Risk Score of 10 means no risk. A Return Score of 1 means the returns are horrible compared to the risk-free rate. A Feasibility score of 10 means everybody can do it. A Liquidity Score of 1 means it’s very difficult to withdraw your money without a massive penalty. An Activity Score of 10 means you can kick back and do nothing to earn income. To make the ranking as realistic as possible, every score is relative to each other. Furthermore, the return criteria is based off trying to generate $10,000 a year in passive income.
Residual income is the best model for money generation. Once you master and build up one avenue, you can devote your time and money into another avenue. Eventually you start reaping the benefits of multiple residual income avenues. Enabling you to have complete financial and time freedom. I recommend to all people to build these types of asset models as they can greatly improve their life.


Roy Hopwood manufacturing partner Dejond, are pleased to announce that they have evolved from an ISO 9001 to an EN 9100 certified organization.
The accreditation is applicable to the development, production and sales of blind rivet nuts and distribution of high value fastening systems. The EN 9100 certificate will ensure that Dejond are able to meet the most stringent requirements for their aerospace customers, allowing them to strengthen their position in the aerospace industry. It is comparable to the TS 16949 automotive directive.
Congratulations to the Dejond Tubtara team !


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AFTER taking just one point from the previous 12, Newcastle Blue Star finally bounced back to form with a crucial victory over Warrington Town at Kingston Park.
The Tynesiders are now fourth-top in the UniBond League Division One North and, although they appear nailed on for the play-offs they are outsiders for the championship.
Director of Football Bob Morton said: “It was good to get a win under our belts after losing three and drawing one of the previous four games.
“Eighty-three points will win the title, which means we would have to win our last seven games and rely on other teams slipping up.
“Durham City are in the driving seat, but they showed last week they too are not invincible.
“Skelmersdale United are second and Colwyn Bay third and we have both of them to play home and away, so anything can happen in the next few weeks.”
The strong wind made conditions extremely difficult for both sides on Saturday and there were a lot of tired legs in a Blue Star side playing its fifth game in 11 days.
Paul Brayson was an early marksman and he’s now racked up 43 league and cup goals and is far and away the UBL’s leading scorer.
In addition, he has another three goals in other competitive games and is well on course to break the 50-goal barrier for the season.
Morton added: “The lad set himself a target of 40 and he is already well past the figure.
“I will be surprised if he does not make a half century.”
Warrington Town hit back with a penalty from Chris Gahgan, but a spirited second-half performance earned the Tynesiders the points as Jonathan Webb and Alex Benjamin turned supremacy into account.
Morton said: “The championship is out of our hands since we are relying on other sides dropping points.
“We will only have ourselves to blame if we are not in the play-offs.”

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Carson’s Dillon Atwell to CVCC
Published 12:00 am Wednesday, July 2, 2014
CHINA GROVE — He earned the Patrick Snider Award as Rowan County’s Pitcher of the Year twice, so it sounds silly to say Dillon Atwell is underrated — but he has been.
Atwell’s bottom-line career stats at Carson are astonishing — 26 wins against five losses.
It may be a while before any Cougar tops that. Actually, Atwell may have grand-kids playing before any Cougar tops that.
Sure, Atwell played for a string of good teams that played exceptional defense, but 26-5 is 26-5.
“He’s smart, he’s got four pitches (fastball, curve, slider, changeup), and all he did was win,” Carson coach Chris Cauble said. “He had a knack for winning, he was a team guy and his senior year he was a leader when we needed him to be.”
Since 2000, no pitcher at any of the Rowan schools has won more games than Atwell did.
“My goal was to win 30,” Atwell said. “That number always was in the back of my mind and I thought I had a chance because we had such good teams. They got me runs and they saved me runs, and even though I didn’t get to 30, I got pretty close.”
Atwell was a workhorse, a guy who took the ball once a week whether his arm felt great or felt lousy. He’d throw seven innings on Tuesday and tell Cauble he could relieve on Friday if needed.
He started 31 times in his three varsity seasons. He finished what he started 15 times. He fired five shutouts. He pitched nearly 200 innings in his career, a school record, and while he wasn’t considered a strikeout pitcher, he also set a school standard for strikeouts.
Still, while Atwell kept setting records he never set the recruiting world on fire . He understood why.
“I’m right-handed, I’m 5-foot-11, and I throw 80s,” Atwell said with a shrug.
Those were the three strikes against Atwell. Colleges covet lefties, they prefer 6-3 hurlers who are throwing downhill, and they like to see at least high 80s on the radar gun.
“I guess maybe it was a little bit frustrating not to be recruited more, but I’ve known where I stood on that totem pole for a long time,” Atwell said.
Cauble was more aggravated by the quiet recruiting process than Atwell.
“Dillon may not have been frustrated, but I was,” Cauble said. “My selling point to colleges was simply — this guy is a winner. Maybe he doesn’t do it the same way every time, but he figures out what’s working that night and he wins. He filled up the strike zone and he pitched to contact, and that’s what we wanted him to do with the defense we had. But the scouts wanted to see him miss a few more bats.”
Atwell is a strong student and got offers from Division II programs. But they were from private schools where $5,000 in baseball scholarship money wasn’t going to make a serious dent in the total cost.
He decided a couple of weeks ago to go to school and play baseball at Catawba Valley Community College in Hickory, an affordable school where it seems half of Rowan County’s athletes are headed. Carson’s Atwell, John Daugherty and Bryson Prugh, West Rowan’s Michael Ball and Mooresville Moors Seth Hubbard and Holden Pender are among the baseball players who have announced they’ll be CVCC Red Hawks.
“It was kind of coming down to the last minute and CVCCC is a place I’d been looking at for a while,” Atwell said. “It’s a chance to keep playing with some friends. It’s a nice place and they’ve got a winning program.”
Atwell could help them win some more.
He’s started five high-pressure prep playoff games. As a sophomore, he shut out Weddington until the bottom of the sixth, but a two-run homer beat him. Weddington went on to win the 3A state championship.
As a junior, he fired a one-hitter in the first round of the playoffs against Robinson.
As a senior, he won two playoff games, shutting out North Iredell in the first round and winning 5-3 against South Rowan in the third round.
“That South game was the most memorable of all of them,” Atwell said. “Because it put us in the fourth round, and that was further than we’d ever been. My teammates went running out there and picked me up, and that’s something I’ll never forget.”
The pages of the calendar turn quickly. Three summers ago, following his freshman year as a Carson jayvee, Atwell came out of nowhere to be the closer for the South Rowan Legion team.
“That seems like just yesterday,” Atwell said with a smile. “But now it’s time to move on.”
Cauble believes more wins are in his future.
“He’ll give CVCC everything he has,” Cauble said. “It could be a good stepping stone for him.”
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