Opportunities abound in Chaos and Kevlar Umbrellas

I recently wrote this for another website I work on but, I felt that it really has much more relevance for us investors. This was originally published for readers of the Muse Blueprint which helps people start their own business or want to take an existing one to the next level.

If you listen to the news and I suggest that you don’t very often, you would think that the sky is falling with the economy. Well, parts of it actually are but it does not have to be so for you. I suggest that you think of yourself as the person selling Kevlar Umbrellas, like I do.

While you should be aware of economic trends such as the US dollar’s values falling like a rock with no end in site, it does open up opportunities.

I will give you just a couple of examples. As gas prices keep going up (and they will but more on that later) , it is going to make locally made products and services more competitive against those that are not local.

Do you have a product or service that can save people from driving for instance? Do you know where one is to invest in?

Here are two of my Muses or other Businesses that I have recently picked up (another strategy I will cover is buying small businesses) that do exactly that, www.888360Pixs.com and www.888EZToOwn.com . The first is a service that provides pictures, virtual tours, and Videos of Real Estate, Boats, Cars and just about everything else. The second provides FREE Real Estate Advertising.

Ok, time out here. Here is the Definition of a Muse from my Book, The Muse Blueprint.

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The Real Estate Data being used by most of the financial media and in many economic reports could be off by at least 120% in many areas and in one major metropolitan area (Central Ohio), the number used for home sales alone could be off by a whopping 374% (see chart) . To put it another way, this means that possibly only 1 out of every 5 sales are being reported.

As the Real Estate market as a whole is a major part of the US economy, this finding could have a major impact on the world markets. The questions first asked are, how could this have happened and how could this be?

It all comes down to this. Statistics = lies, lies and damn lies.

I will show you how this happened, how it became possible and the ripple effect it may have on almost every major market out there. As to the why, you will have to decide for yourself.

Since Real Estate in the US has been used as the reason for a lot of the good and bad in the markets world wide recently, with the very real possibility of the data being off by not just 10%, 20% , or even 50% but by well over 100%, this needs to be examined closely. With the Real Estate data being possibly wrong by over 100%, what does that mean for you as an Investor?

As a Real Estate Investor I have surmised that the figures were way off for at least 10 years now and started really looking into it a couple of years ago to prove to myself that my theory that housing and Real Estate sales were being grossly under reported was indeed correct.

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