Start a Home Based Business Online – The Advantages of Owning a Online Business

At one point of another in our employed lives, we have all dreamed of walking up to the boss’ office and giving them a Donald Trump-like “You’re fired!” and thereafter turn around and leave triumphantly. Chances are you thought twice about it because you had nothing to fall back on before. The good news is that today you can set up your own internet business and say goodbye to your boss for good.It is easy to start your own internet business as this type of venture does not come with very high start up costs. An online business is therefore a much cheaper business to begin than a business in the brick and mortar world. For one – you will not have to pay office rent – because you will not need office space. You can easily work from your living room, bedroom or even your kitchen, so long as you have your laptop and internet connectivity. What’s more, you do not need a lot of expensive office furniture to impress your clients, nor will you have to worry about paying salaries each month as you will not need any staff.To start a home based business online is simple once you know what you are doing. The low direct costs of sales that you will make with your internet business will also translate into higher profit margins for your business. For instance, if you are selling eBooks online, you will pay close to nothing in terms of stocking and delivery costs. On the other hand, if you were stocking encyclopedias for sale in the brick and mortar world… you do the math. As for your other costs such as web hosting, you will incur anywhere between $20 – 30 per month which is minimal in comparison to your profits.If you have ever had to serve a client who is having a bad day, then you will appreciate the benefits that come with not having to deal with your clients face to face through your internet business. You will find that by providing some clear and detailed information, you can avoid most of the conflicts that all business owners tend to experience with their clients. Ensure that your site has a comprehensive FAQs section for client use, and be sure to also send out emails for further clarification on any issues. By not having the customer raging in your face, you are allowed the time to calculate your response and ensure that the problem is solved without your losing a client in the process.If you want to start a home based business online, don’t wait until tomorrow, take action now.

Running an Online Home-Based Business – Your Work Ethic

Unfortunately there is this false notion that operating an online business from home somehow does not call for a healthy work ethic. This is dangerous and if you have bought into this notion, you need to get it out of your head now.Because if you allow yourself to be sold on this myth, you are setting up your online home based business for failure. You see, it is so easy for this myth to be reinforced online.Just take a look in the majority of sales or what is popularly called squeeze pages pushing online business opportunities. There is this false narrative surrounding most of these offers that everyone should or wants to achieve a lot overnight without having to do much of anything.The man who thinks he will not have to work, most likely won’t.Well this could very well be so for quite a number of people who are very mistaken about what it takes to have success in business. But the reality is that if you are going to have any success at all with your online home-based business it requires quite a bit of effort on your part and anything that you see to the contrary is very misleading and even dangerous.Moreover, even if this was remotely true, not everyone wants to be able to sleep late, seven days a week, work 15 minutes per day, play golf or go fishing the rest of the time.Of all the multimillionaires or billionaires you may have heard of, which one of them had this lifestyle before they made their fortune or even now that they have made it big?Not Oprah Winfrey, not Warren Buffett, not Bill Gates, not Donald Trump.In fact these people work very hard and love to work hard. Why would you let a sales page convince you that you will never have to do any hard work?The problem of course is not hard work. The problem is that the type of work you choose to do is hard on you. The solution therefore, is to find something you love to do. And find a way to make money from it. You can do this.Believing in the notion that you will not have to put in the hard work in order to make your online business successful is a dangerous myth.Never having to work hard is a myth that is meant only to play on your emotions. Resist that notion. Your hard work does not have to be hard on you. It can be fun.

New Real Estate Laws and Same Sex Couples

It’s no secret that same sex couples are not created equal. Not only with general discrimination that exists, but being allowed to legally wed (in most states), adding your significant other to your health care plan, or even buying a home together proves to be a challenge. With the new real estate laws and same sex couples, they may now have one up on this jaded system we call “constitutional.”

The Supreme Court has dismissed the existing law that identifies marriage as a joining of a man and a woman. This might be a small step to the general population, but it is huge to gay couples. And while it does not remove all of the other obstacles that they still face, it is a step in the right direction.

So what does this have to do with real estate? Well, the Supreme Court has recently ruled that a portion of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unlawful. For gay and married couples, this means changes that will affect the mortgage interest tax deduction and VA Home loans.

Married gay couples, who until now have not been unable to claim this tax deduction, will now be able to file tax returns jointly. In the past, these couples living in states that allowed gay marriage would not allow couples to file joint tax returns. Since this ruling, DOMA must recognize same sex marriage just as a marriage between a man and a woman, and as such, they will now have the same rights when it comes to the mortgage interest tax deduction.

When it comes to VA loans there is still plenty of work to be done. Currently, a married gay veteran who would like to obtain a VA loan cannot include his/her partner as a spouse on the application. This is because the federal rules require the spouse to be of the opposite sex. While a joint loan is possible, if both are veterans, the VA only allows a portion of the loan to married gay applicants. What a way to treat those who service our country, wouldn’t you say?

While we as a country, are nowhere near treating gay couples equally when it comes to the laws and how they are applied to same sex couples and what we call “traditional marriage,” continued small strides and wins are definitely helping.

Perhaps one day we will all be treated equally. While that is too far down the road for any of us see, maybe one day it will happen. Until then, rulings such as this will help ensure that any gay couple who wishes to buy a home is not discriminated against because of their sexual preference.