Mathew Owens's Profile
Biography
Mathew Owens graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a B.A. in economics and an emphasis in accounting. Mathew earned his CPA license in 2000 passing all four parts in one sitting, a task that only 10% of CPA candidates have been able to do. Mathew specializes in corporate and individual taxation, assurance services, and business and real estate consulting. He worked as a CPA, auditor and business advisor while running his own tax business.
In 2009 Mathew left his corporate life and founded Owens Consulting Group. Mathew has completed over 100 transactions in the past three years, representing approximately $10 million in real estate, most of which has been sold to CF Investors. OCG currently manages the portfolio of all CF Investors that they have sold property to, and its investors have experienced average cash on cash return of 23%. OCGs team has over 60 years of combined experience in various aspects of real estate investment.
Mathew Owens's articles
Read any introductory college economics book you wish, most will tell you that there is no way the amount of public debt can outstrip the productive capacity of a wealthy, developed nation like the United States.
Posted: 2012-01-07
Category: Finance
As far as media and the typical American household are concerned, it would appear that dinner table conversations are limited to unemployment rates and mob mentality depictions of Occupy Wall Street demonstrations. Even self-dubbed business programs purposely omit any information pertaining to real wages and income.
Posted: 2011-12-28
Category: Finance
The student loan market relentlessly makes it way to and past the $1 trillion mark, having outstripped credit card debt, estimated at around $850 billion.
Posted: 2011-12-21
Category: Finance
In a recent effort to encourage spending by consumers, the Federal Reserve promised to hold short-term interest rates near zero at least through mid-2013. A plan to lower long-term rates followed suit in September. Unfortunately these lower rates make it harder for savers to hold onto their cash and still beat inflation.
Posted: 2011-11-17
Category: Finance
These days the average American household has an average of $15,799 in debt, a number found by dividing the total revolving debt in the United Sates ($793.1 billion as of May 2011 as listed in the Federal Reserve’s July 2011 report on consumer credit) by the estimated number of households carrying credit card debt (50.2 million).
Posted: 2011-09-21
Category: Investments
With the stock market tumbling, many investors are looking to stable cash flow investments backed by a hard asset such as real estate. Most investors realize that the ponzi scheme of the stock market keeps investors in high risk and highly volatile investments.
Posted: 2011-08-31
Category: Finance
In the year 2001, the national debt stood at $5.8 trillion. Today that figure has more than doubled to $14.3 trillion.
Posted: 2011-08-25
Category: Investing
With historically low mortgage interest rates accompanying super-low prices and a considerable supply of homes on the market, there is no better time to buy a home.
Posted: 2011-07-22
Category: Real Estate
There has been major debate lately regarding the financial stability of the banks.
Posted: 2011-07-15
Category: Finance
People constantly ask me how to choose a market to invest in and what factors must be considered before investing
Posted: 2011-06-02
Category: Investing
The problem is that most people in California, heck, most people around the world obtain these types of opinions based on what someone else tells them or they are strictly emotionally based. We all get information like that in one way shape or form but how do you know what is really going on and what is brainwashing.
Posted: 2011-04-27
Category: Real Estate
There is so much instability in the current economy. The writing is on the wall for major changes in the U.S. over the next 10 years, and the global economy will also see major changes.
Posted: 2011-04-24
Category: Investments
There are thousands of so called financial advisors that tell you that you should invest in mutual funds, money market accounts, stocks, bonds and life insurance policies and diversify your retirement portfolio. This is some of the worst financial advice you can get and the general public has been duped by the large investment companies like Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and the large banks for years.
Posted: 2011-04-16
Category: Investing
Are you worried about massive inflation, if social security is going to be enough for you to retire, if your retirement savings is going to last you throughout your later years, well you’re not alone. The vast majority of retires are very concerned with what is going on in the economy and their ability to retire.
Posted: 2011-04-13
Category: Investing
When dealing with real estate investments there are many steps to go through before investing. Here are my top 10 keys to a successful real estate investment.
Posted: 2011-04-06
Category: Real Estate
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