http://www.shortoncashflow.com Learn from our financial failures Sun, 06 Nov 2011 11:58:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Back when I started my journey to “financial freedom” I picked up one very important habit that I had never had before, I started saving money. I also started tracking every expense, large or small. If I bought bread at the shop downstairs (which was in Paris at the time, ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/what-i-learned-from-my-faltering-business/ When we got crushed by Google Panda I made an agreement with some providers that they could keep working but I may not be able to pay them for a while. Dumb move: in the end if you owe someone you owe them, whether it be sooner or later. Several months ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/short-on-cash-and-still-pandafied/ Well, the road to financial freedom is not an easy one. It’s paved with bumps and potholes! Recently we had disturbances with the one flat that was rented. The renter started fire to the bush in the backyard and had been playing loud music and causing general ruckus. The neighbors ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/fred-and-sally-financial-business-update/ 1- Encouraging unemployed foreigners to go back to their planet of origin It won’t solve the root of the problem but at least the unemployment rate will go down. We’re already stuck with our own unemployed; we’re not going to take care of aliens on top of it. These are tough ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/how-to-boost-an-economy-with-20-unemployment-or-pretend-to/ A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.... It is a period of world crisis. Outraged people, striking from a bivouac in the capital city, have shown signs of frustration to the evil Catastrophic Empire. During the summer camp, Outraged spies managed to steal secret plans about the Empire's ultimate solution, the DECEPTION STAR, an absurd space station with enough ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/a-new-hope-or-maybe-not/ In our search for a bank repossessed property we are quickly discovering that most of the property currently owned by banks in Madrid is not in good buildings, and they sit in mediocre or poor neighborhoods. Of course, this is totally logical that the first or most to lose their ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/bad-buildings-and-worse-neighborhoods/ We took a big-huge hit by the Panda/Farmer Google algorithm update. Our main money-making site dropped 45% in traffic. We no longer can pay some of our outsourcers but lucky for me they are quite loyal and have agreed to continue to work and wait until we can afford to ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/what-pandas-can-do-to-your-internet-business/ Years, months, and days much later I finally have something to say. We have begun work on our second company, the equivalent of an LLC for property holdings. The banks are filling up with properties they have to get back out into the market, find buyers and get them off ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/back-in-the-hunt/ If you remember back a couple years ago I made several posts about Silver. Back then it was around 16 USD per ounce. We bought a lot then, well a lot for us and a little more when it was over 20. As recent as a couple months ago I ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/silver-housing-and-inflation/ I haven’t posted anything since last June. What has happened since then? Well not too much. In the end I caved in to desire and we did buy a car. It was a used car just 2 years old and the price was half that of the new model, which was ... http://www.shortoncashflow.com/whats-been-happening-in-our-financial-world/