My dream was to always replace my “earned income” with “passive income” or investment income. I was in Paris with my wife quite a few years ago visiting the Eiffel Tower. The tower at night, all lit...
The Advantages of Investing in Real Estate
The advantages of investing in real estate are huge compared to any other investment. Knowing those advantages can give you keen insight into being a better real estate investor and accumulating the...
Should You Invest in Land?
When most people think about investing in real estate, they think of investing in homes. In today's blog post, I wanted to share with you another way you can look at investing: land! Several years...
You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Building Wealth Through Real Estate
I meet people from all over the world and they all tend to ask me the same question: "how can I build wealth?" That is the exact reason why I founded WealthBuilders: to teach and train entrepreneurs...
Leveraging Vacation Properties Using Rental Sites
When most people think about investing in real estate, they think of two things: fixing and flipping or buying and holding. Vacation properties can benefit both you and your real estate portfolio....
A Thorough Guide to Getting Started as a Real Estate Investor
In the Old Testament book of Genesis, God tells Adam and Eve to "be fruitful and multiply...” And while God was talking about bearing children and leaving a legacy, I believe that these instructions...
Eliminating Poverty: Motivation and Incentives by David Briggs
One of the biggest tragedies of global poverty is how hard it is to transition out of it. Rather, the international policy on how to handle poverty makes the transition difficult. The secret sauce...
How Microfinance Provides Opportunity & Changes Legacies
Tricord Global exists because we believe it is essential that people have opportunity. We provide opportunity by partnering with banks in other countries and loaning money to small business owners....
Re-Imagining Benevolence: Sustainable Community Development Model
David Briggs is my partner in Tricord Global, and his words are always powerful and impactful. We are talking about social impact this month, so I wanted to invite him to write some posts for us....
Five Ways to Make a Mark on the World
Next month, we will open the opportunity to invest with Tricord Global. This is always an incredibly exciting season in our office. Why? Well, our mission at Tricord is to equip entrepreneurs in...
The Two Sides of Social Impact
Every so often, I will invite David Briggs, co-founder of Tricord Global, to write some blogs because his knowledge and passion for social impact is incredibly apparent. Today is one of those days!...
3 Ways to Make a Big Social Impact Right Now
There comes a time when we need to move beyond reading and learning and start acting. The Bible tells us not to be hearers of the Word only, but also doers (James 1:22). And if we don't act, all of...