Decision Making for Personal Investment Real Estate Financing, Forec

This book presents a personal financial decision making model based on six dominant decision making pathways. It outlines each pathway in detail before focusing on real estate investments in the second part of the book. Based on the authors extensive rese

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Waymond Rodgers • Timothy G. McFarlin

Decision Making for Personal Investment Real Estate Financing, Foreclosures and Other Issues

Waymond Rodgers University of Texas, El Paso/ University of Hull Hull, United Kingdom

Timothy G. McFarlin McFarlin LLP California, USA

ISBN 978-3-319-47848-7 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47849-4

ISBN 978-3-319-47849-4 (eBook)

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PREFACE

Personal investments generally involve one’s current needs as well as predicting one’s long-term requirements, which an individual/family performs to spend monetary resources taking into consideration various financial risks. These investments can take the form of checking, savings accounts, stock market, bonds, and mutual funds. Also, other vehicles can be utilized such as credit cards, consumer loans as well as insurance (life insurance, health insurance, disability insurance) and individual-/ employer-sponsored retirement plans, social security benefits, and income tax management. Nonetheless, many individual investors simply do not have the tools to cope with financial decisions or they are constrained by circumstances (such as time pressure, changing environments, ill-structured information, and lack of expertise regarding financial issues) or the information is just too much. In our fast-moving economy we are forever bombarded by myriad sources of information. Undoubtedly, this massive influx of information has been m