Dividend Stock Watch List: Lanny’s November 2022 Edition

Welcome back to another dividend stock watch list article!  The stock market is still down almost 19% year-to-date, but the last full week of October there definitely was a big push!

What does that mean?  Undervalued dividend stocks to buy now, baby!  As a frugal individual and dividend investor, I love nothing more than buying dividend stocks on sale!  Bring it on recession and upcoming interest rate hikes, just bring it!

Therefore, as I do every month, here is the Dividend Stock Watch List for November 2022! Continue reading

Fundrise: Increasing MY Real Estate Investment in a Stock Market Crash

Fundrise, Real Estate Investing, Crowdfunding

Fundrise is an online, crowd funding real estate investment platform that allows investors to invest into real estate.  The platform provides another avenue for passive income that can be helpful on the journey to financial freedom!  That is the exact reason we have been investing with Fundrise.

My wife and I have now been investing with Fundrise for almost 4 years.  Fundrise provides us a nice diversification tool, to invest outside of the stock market, have an option for real estate investment and create passive income. Continue reading

STAG Industrial: Perfect Time to Buy This 5% Yielding, Monthly Dividend Paying REIT?

We love receiving dividend checks. Most companies pay quarterly. However, there are some excellent dividend stocks that send their shareholders checks EVERY SINGLE MONTH.  This article features STAG Industrial (STAG), a REIT with a 5% dividend yield that pays a monthly dividend.  Is this REIT a dividend stock to buy? Let’s find out!

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Bank of America (BAC) Reports Earnings – Setting up the stage for a RECORD 2023

Welcome back to our Dividend Investing blog!  Today’s article will be a little twist – as I wanted to dive into Bank of America’s (BAC) results and discuss how they performed AND what type of stage they may be setting.

Bank of America (BAC) reported earnings on October 17th.  The big bank, one of the too big too fail banks, had amazing numbers, but it’s something they recorded that could be setting the stage for a record earnings year of 2023!  Let’s dive in and go over the release! Continue reading

Bert’s $12,000+ of Investments That are NOT Stocks

You know we are dividend investors! Heck, we are fully transparent and share our full dividend stock portfolios on our website. With that said, we also have a few investments that aren’t dividend stocks.  The alternative investments have grown to over $12,000. While this represents approximately 2% of our overall portfolio, the value has become a meaningful sum.  Therefore, in this article, I’ll share 3 investments that are not stocks! Continue reading