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Wallet Squirrel is a personal finance blog by best friends Andrew & Adam on how money works, building side-hustles, and the benefits of cleverly investing the profits. Featured on MSN Money, AOL Finance, and more!

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How to make money buying for other people

March 28, 2016 /4 Comments/in , /by

Here is a quick story of how I made $21.80 by offering to pick up the bill for other people. This might work for you too. Last Thanksgiving before leaving Denver and heading home to visit my parents in Iowa. My father asked me to pick up a few things that he couldn’t find back […]

Why I love the subscription business model and my latest stock buys

March 25, 2016 /2 Comments/in /by

I love REITs. OK, I love any business model that receives regular payments for just owning something and letting others use it. Imagine owning a car and someone paid you just to drive it. No matter what happens, you are getting paid. You can use that revenue to keep your business afloat and invest in […]

Getting Caught up with Recent Buys

March 17, 2016 /6 Comments/in /by

Not going to lie to you, keeping up with a blog is tough. I’ve been slacking on you WalletSquirrel. WalletSquirrel grew from such a GREAT concept of earning money beyond the day job and I need to play catch up a bit with my most recent stocks before I continue my financial freedom journey. Recent […]

Income Report – February 2016

March 5, 2016 /5 Comments/in /by

Wahoo had my highest dividend payment this month! Unfortunately the rest of my passive income streams didn’t quite measure up, but I’ll go into that later. Dividend Income shot up to $12.14 this month, a large part to my recent acquisition of a few more shares of Realty Income (O) one of my favorite stocks. […]

SE vs SEP, My First Journey to into Oil & Gas Stocks

February 21, 2016 /0 Comments/in /by

So everyone and their sister is talking about oil prices. Are they bottomed out or what not and to get in now while the prices are low. So how do I get into this action? While I’m still learning about the oil players, one company has come to my attention thanks to Motley Fool, and […]

HCP down 32% two days after buy, WTF

February 15, 2016 /11 Comments/in /by

I knew this would happen, but why so soon? Last Monday I finally decided to pull the trigger on HCP, a healthcare REIT that has a diversity of healthcare facilities in its portfolio including senior housing, life science facilities, medical office buildings, hospitals and skilled nursing facilities. Essentially HCP owns the facilities and healthcare organizations […]