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Investing the Profits from Your Home Based Business

by: Rhiannon Williamson
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Having made the bold and glorious decision to sack the boss and go it alone you are one of the few who have what it takes to succeed. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and a strong will and these are rare and valuable attributes that will guide you throughout your professional and personal life.

Now that your business is up and running and you’re profiting from your efforts, it’s time to turn your attentions to investing the profits from your home based business wisely and for maximum gain.

One of the most consistently returning asset classes over the long term and the one that the majority of us can profit from is real estate.

Understanding market cycles


Now, you’re most likely aware that property markets are cyclical – this is because there is a direct correlation between the underlying price of real estate in relation to individual buying power. Simply explained: when property prices rise above what first time buyers can afford to pay the market slows down, stagnates and sometimes readjusts – but as soon as purchasing power increases again, either with a drop in interest rates or an increase in GDP, so property prices begin rising again.

And there are even ways to make money from real estate during a market downturn!

Investing in real estate for income
Depending on the nature of your home based business your monthly income may be slightly erratic – some months being better than others! If you invest in property assets in a buy-to-let or even jet-to-let capacity you can secure yourself a consistent monthly income which may afford you an added degree of financial security.

Buy-to-let is when you purchase property for rental purposes – this make be an apartment you corporate let, it could be a house you student let or even a family home you rent out long term.

Jet-to-let is similar but it involves purchasing overseas property for short term weekly or fortnightly rental to tourists. This type of letting is usually very lucrative indeed during peak holiday periods but may mean you have a property that is empty for a few months out of season.

Both types of property investment return you a regular income and at the same time the physical real estate asset will grow in value over the long term and if ever you wish to release the profits from your investment you can sell on the property and take the gains you have accrued.

Investing in real estate for profit

The alternative to building up a property portfolio for income generation purposes is purchasing property and selling it on relatively quickly to realize the gains the asset has accrued.

You can do this in a number of ways…firstly you can purchase run down property in need of renovation, tidy up the property and turn it into a home before selling it on at a higher price and reaping the profits gained.

Alternatively you could seek to beat the curve by buying into up and coming areas, waiting for prices to boom and then selling on for profit. This is quite a risky strategy for a first time investor as timing the market is hard!

An alternative to this is looking overseas for the latest emerging property markets worldwide and buying properties to renovate or properties off plan and then flipping them on for maximum gains in the short term.

Financing your investment


As a self-employed individual it can be tricky to get a mortgage unless you have audited accounts, bank references etc., etc. If you don’t have all of these requisite documents there are other options available to you.

The main options are re-mortgaging your primary residence and releasing the equity that you have accrued already for reinvestment in another property project or taking out a self-certification mortgage where you make a large down payment and basically tell the lender how much you can afford to borrow!

A winning attitude

You’ve already proved you have what it takes to succeed against the odds by establishing a profitable home based business, now apply the same steely determination to your real estate investments and you will succeed in making the maximum gains. Start small, begin gently, test the market and your understanding of it and slowly build up a profitable real estate portfolio from the profits of your home based business for maximum financial gain.

Good luck in achieving your goals.

About the author:
Rhiannon Williamson is a freelance writer whose articles about property investing and emerging real estate markets have appeared in publications around the world. She is currently working on a brand new property investment resource http://www.amberlamb.com/


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We are a team of virtual assistants with over 10 years of real-world, practical experience and a growing list of very satisfied clientele. We have a comprehensive and rich professional experience in both the public and private sector, serving in different types of organizations such as law enforcement, legal departments, the judiciary, non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and multinational corporations. Our status as a team signifies that we have a wide range of available skills and backgrounds. Whatever your business or company needs, we will deliver.

Our core values have always been complete customer satisfaction, job efficiency, painstaking attention to detail, and prompt performance. We stand by our belief that our clients deserve the best we have to offer, and we commit to excellence and quality in terms of skills and services rendered. We believe that your business is your labor of love, and we treat your business as it were our own. Constantly driven to excel by these beliefs, we strive to provide the best value for your money.

We also expect our clientele to be equally dedicated to their business. We find that we work best with clients who are dynamic, energetic, expressive, and creative. We’ve come to realize that the best clients are those with excellent business sense: they know that placing too much emphasis on the performance of mundane tasks will seriously detract from the more pressing issues of actually running the business. Hence, they recognize the value of hiring virtual assistants to streamline company operations and relieve them of minor responsibilities, thus giving them complete freedom to run the business.

If you would like to avail of our services, we would be happy to provide you with a complimentary consultation meeting or call, completely free of charge or obligation. Please look to our Contact Us page to find our complete contact information.

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What we can do for you

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We specialize in virtual assistant services for taking care of your administrative, secretarial, clerical, and legal tasks. These tasks are, without a doubt, vital and necessary for your business, and we present a way for you to efficiently manage them and, simultaneously, manage the more critical aspects of your business’ or company’s operations. We can also work with you to identify what your special or specialized needs are.

General Office Support Services
Word processing
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Spreadsheets, graphs,  and charts
Marketing assistance, including telemarketing
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Database management and  maintenance
Research
Bookkeeping and accounting payroll and billing

Specialized Business Support Services
Business start-up assistance
Corporate identity packages
Screening, interviewing,  and hiring of new employees
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Feasibility studies and marketing research

Legal Support Services
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Our expertise is based on years of top-level administrative experience and training. We carefully evaluate and subject our virtual assistants to a rigorous screening process. When you avail of our virtual assistants’ services, you can expect the services of a fully-qualified expert. You don’t have to go through the tedious process of hiring and screening new employees.If your company’s or business’ workload and/or budget doesn’t allow for full-time permanent administrative staff, or if your workload periodically piles up and cases a backlog in your operations, you need our virtual assistants.

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Availing of Our Services

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As an entrepreneur or small- or medium-scale business owner, you realize the value of your time. Running a business is a dynamic activity: it is imperative to be on top of the situation 24/7/365. Unfortunately, the little details of running a business tend to eat up your precious little time and detract from the more important concerns of running the business.

As a manager of a medium- to large-scale corporation, you are probably familiar with the periodic build-up in the overall company workload: peak seasons bring in torrents of drowning paperwork that, if not properly managed, will take up a lot of your time and energy, both of which are better off spent on actually managing the company. The fact that this phenomenon is seasonal in nature makes it infeasible to hire full-time permanent employees, and hiring part-time employees will further take up a lot of time and resources.

Before we begin a job with your business or company, we will schedule a free consultation meeting or call with you. This is a cursory call and we discuss our services in even greater detail. We aim to establish a degree of rapport with you, our prospective customer, and we mean to show you that we are serious about doing business with you. During this first discussion, we will try to identify your business’ or company’s specific needs; the needs of businesses are unique and they have to be carefully addressed for our virtual assistant services to be fully effective.

After we have identified your company’s needs with you, we will draft a formal detailed job specification along with highly specific recommendations for your company. We submit this specification to you for your approval and revisions. If our proposed specification is to your satisfaction, we can then begin to work with you and your company or business. Otherwise, we will revise the specification until it meets your demands, thereupon we begin our work with you.

Our complete contact details can be found on our Contact Us page on this website. We look forward to a productive working relationship with you and your company or business.

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Pros and Cons of Having an Offshore Bank Account

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Offshore banking has been infamously associated with corrupt executives, drug dealers or other unlawful people avoiding taxation and keeping discreet accounts to hide their criminal deeds. However, this is not generally true. In fact, 80 – 90% of offshore bank accounts are used to protect businesses from lawsuits, scams or other threats.

An offshore bank is typically located in a place with low or no tax jurisdiction. People mostly open an offshore bank account for this reason, for it has legal and financial benefits. However, while there are advantages in offshore banking, there are disadvantages as well.

Pros:

1. Offshore banks can provide stable jurisdictions and regulated banking systems. This is beneficial for people living in politically troubled areas where their assets may freeze, or worse, disappear.

2. There’s not much government interference in offshore banks, so sometimes they offer higher interest rates and lower cost bases than in home countries.

3. Offshore banks sometimes offer services that domestic banks may not be able to provide. Examples of these services are anonymous bank accounts, investment opportunities that cannot be offered anywhere else, and lower of higher rate loans.

4. Offshore banking can provide developing countries opportunities to prosper because offshore finance is an industry that could make remote islands be engaged in source investment, thus creating economical growth.

5. Offshore banks mostly pay interest without having to deduct tax.

Cons:

1. Offshore finance, although a legitimate financial establishment, has been linked with unlawful acts like terrorism, underground economy and money laundering. Along with the events that followed the September 11 attacks, offshore banks were accused of helping terrorist groups and organized crime groups.

2. Offshore bank accounts are mostly available to those who have higher incomes, as the cost of establishing an account is quite high. This leaves the tax burden to the middle-income group in developed countries.

3. Offshore banking has been referred to as the solution to all the financial and legal asset protection issues. However, this is not always the case.

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