What is a CD Ladder? No, it is not one of the shelves for compact discs. A CD Ladder is a number of CD’s (Certificate of deposits) that are spaced out over a period of time to capture better interest and provide a realitively safe investment. Generally with a CD you can get a better […]
Entries Tagged as 'Alternative Income'
CD Ladders and what they can do for you
October 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Goals
Farmland as an Investment?
October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment
While perusing the internet looking for alternate investment ideas I came across Agrinuity. With their program and a minimum investment of $100,000 you can be the owner of a piece of farmland. Agrinuity will manage the property for 10 years making sure it has a proper tenant and that the tenant abides by the land management agreements […]
Tags: Alternative Income
Wow its been awhile.
June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments
I haven’t written in a while. Took a minor hit from the market fall. I had just hit making over $50 a month off of dividends in December and then in January I made $23. I now am back up to about $45 a month off of stock dividends. 3 of my 6 Prosper loans […]
Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance
Earn money off of your idle gift cards?
September 28th, 2008 · 1 Comment
If you are like me and have idle gift cards lying around then you could possibly earn interest on them. A site called LeverageCard allows you to register a large number of different gift cards and you can earn either 1% or 3.65% interest a week on them.
While this may not add up to alot […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Frugal
Alternative Income- Social Lending
September 24th, 2008 · No Comments
If you have not heard of social lending or peer to peer lending then you may be missing out on an opportunity to diversify your total investment portfolio. While there is various levels of risk in any investment lending money has its own risks and there are programs out there to help mitigate that risk and […]
Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance · debt
Income from hobbies - Photography
September 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
So you have gotten tired of taking your film to get developed and went and bought a good digital camera. You have been using it for awhile and now your running into a different issue, you have all these photos just sitting on your hard drive collecting virtual dust. Well have you thought about trying […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Fun
Make money from your computer while you sleep?
September 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment
Don’t you wish you could make money from your computer while you sleep? Well you can now with Gomez Peer. This is a paid distributed computing software model that is testing various websites uptime. The current pay design is the following:
Online Time Payments (per day)
$0.10
Processing Time Payments (per min.)
$0.0005
Referral Bonus (per Active Referral)
$1.00
Min. Monthly Payment
$5.00
Max. […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance
My financial health update.
August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So last month I was at $3000 in debt and about 530’s for my credit score. I have been able to decrease my overall debt by $300 even with having to take a plane to my grandfather’s funeral last week($500). My credit scores have climbed about 16 points across all three credit reports. And I […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · Gaming · Goals · debt
Alternative Income- Get paid to read emails
August 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
So we all get spam in our email, so just have it better filtered then others. We recieve email messages every day so why not start making some money off of your email account or accounts. Personally if you are going to go this route I would suggest opening up a seperate email account just […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance
Can you make money with credit cards?
August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments
Some people say you can make money with credit cards. Well if you can get the 0% apr offers for a period of time you can float money, and some people get the 0% apr balance transfers and then take the money and invest it making the minimum payments until the 0% period ends. Of […]
Tags: Alternative Income · Finance · debt
