The Best Ways to Find High-Quality Tenants

A tenant can make or break a real estate business and if you’ve made the foray into renting out personal property, you’re constantly reminded of the threat of a terror tenant, which comes with costly repairs, eviction issues, and legal troubles. There’s no guaranteed way to find perfect tenants, but there are many things you…

The Golden Mountain

Let’s start off the weekend with an old Russian parable (no actual horses were harmed in the writing of this parable): ONCE upon a time a merchant’s son had too much fun spending money, and the day came when he saw himself ruined; he had nothing to eat, nothing to drink. He took a shovel…

Driving For Uber As A Side Hustle

Driving For Uber As A Side Hustle

I don’t know about you guys, but I’m generally pretty fascinating by Uber and Lyft. Until I manage to get my act together and do some driving for them myself, here’s a guest post from Andrew over at Rideshareowl about why being an Uber driver is an awesome side hustle!  Unless you have been living on another planet…

Sometimes Side Hustling Hurts Your Pride

I’ve written a few times about how my main side hustle outside of stage managing is substitute teaching. What I don’t think I’ve written about is how much I dislike it. Besides the fact that teaching is totally not my thing and I’m not a huge fan of kids, substitute teaching is incredibly, mind-numbingly dull…

What Are You Grateful For?

Well, brokeGIRLrich readers, I’m up to my eyeballs getting the end of this leg of tour sorted AND helping to put together Thanksgiving dinner for my cast. One of the things I’m really grateful for is the Internet, since it introduced me to all of you. I thought I’d share this infographic from my friends over…

Start a Blog. Have a Voice. Make Money.

Start a Blog. Have a Voice. Make Money.

I write a lot about hustling here. Planning ahead and patience seem to be the key to any good side hustle, and right now you’re reading my most successful one so far. That’s right, my blog actually makes some money. Recently, it’s been the equivalent of an extra paycheck a month and I am solidly a…

Ways to Make a Little Extra Money Online

Here at brokeGIRLrich, we’re all about new ways to bring in some more dough. From the more outlandish (like online gambling) to the ones I’ve personally had a lot of success with (blogging), there are more ways to make a little extra money than most people are aware of. While none are a 100% guarantee…

My 3 Favorite Hacks to Kickstarting a Freelance Career

Hi guys! Today I’m excited to share another post from my pal Jesse, the part time stage hypnotist and full time hustler. He’s been fine tuning his side hustling and has some great tips to help you maximize your time by being picky about who you work with.               Hello readers. I’m Jesse Gernigin. You might…

Get Your Hustle On: User Testing & Peek

Here’s something today for the hustlers and the bloggers. Peek: For the Bloggers If you own your own website, you probably wonder what people think of it, how easy it is to navigate and whether or not you’re coming across the way you intend to. I recently read Ruth Soukup’s How to Blog for Profit…

House Sitting: A Great Side Hustle for Students

A few weeks ago, I was visiting one of the most financially savvy friends I have up in Vermont and during our conversations, she told me about easily a half dozen side hustles she did growing up long before learning the word side hustle. But my favorite story was this one – she used to…

Music to Make Money To

Sometimes in life you just need a playlist to budget to. Or make a net worth statement. Or get your hustle on. In honor of Friday’s post, here are 10 hits to groove to while getting your financial genius going. Money – The Flying Lizards Money Makes the World Go Round – Cabaret Walk the…

Side Hustling: A Look at the Last Two Years

Side Hustling: A Look at the Last Two Years

So at the end of this month, I’m celebrating two years of blogging. That might not seem like a lot, but that’s a little more than 300 posts written just for brokeGIRLrich, not to mention all the other opportunities that have opened up to me since I started blogging. Aside from being my own personal…

How to Sell Your Books for Maximum Profit

How to Sell Your Books for Maximum Profit

Confession: I am a book hoarder. If just owning a book could put the information into your head, I would be incredibly brilliant. To be honest, there are quite a few books on my bookshelf that I may never read – because they are boring as all get out. But, ya know, I thought I…

Side Hustle Steriods

I’m really excited to share this guest post from my pal Jesse over at LiveGoldRich with you today. I think we all know I love a good side hustle and this man nailed his as a stage hypnotist (how cool is that, right?). Even better, the man is an awesome salesperson (which I am not)…

Pin Money Projects

Pin Money Projects

When I really little, I would collect the fallen crab apples in my grandparent’s backyard and throw them in a bucket. Then I would get a penny an apple. My grandma called this pin money. I think it was child slave labor, but ya know, tomato, to-mah-toe. The idea of pin money stayed with me…

Funding Innovation

As someone who has spent a lot of time in school and who even aspires to be a professor someday, a topic that often crossed my mind was –how do you survive as an academic? Largely, it’s by securing funding to research your area of interest, whether it’s one to one theater or large hadron…

How to Make Money From Your Unwanted Clutter on Craigslist

Today I am delighted to share a guest post with you from  Anum Yoon, a personal finance blogger and freelance writer who strangely enough, found her passion for money management through her extensive travels around the world. Since deciding to settle in the US, she has been faced with the task of becoming a responsible…

Fun and Easy Ways to Fundraise for a Sports Team

Fun and Easy Ways to Fundraise for a Sports Team

If you’re a parent, you probably want to support your child in their extracurricular interests, but school budgets for these programs are unfortunately not always as high as we might want them to be. At almost any school, public or private, you will hear someone expressing concerns about lack of money. This means that it…

5 Games That Teach You Personal Finance Lessons

5 Games That Teach You Personal Finance Skills

I don’t know about you guys, but I love a good game night. I grew up with parents who nearly divorced every time we played Scrabble who had good, healthy approaches to competition, and I think a lot of that wore off on me. I was recently playing a new game with a friend (#3…

Side Hustles You Can Do On the Road

Yesterday I was out eating dinner with one of my cast members and I told her about my mini money challenge and how I wasn’t exactly nailing it – trying to live entirely off your per diem is something that a lot of folks do, so I learned she was trying to do the same…

Sing for Your Supper: Busking in NYC

Sing For Your Supper: Busking in NYC

Today I’m really excited to share an interview I did with one of the members of my cast, Cat Greenfield – busker, model and puppeteer extraordinaire (cough, cough, hire her, cough, cough). We were hanging out the other day and she mentioned that she busks in NYC and immediately my personal finance wheels started spinning…

How a Specialized Teaching Degree Earns You More Money

Hey there, brokeGIRLrich readers, I thought today’s topic was especially important because I’ve noticed more and more friends who started out in the arts moving away from them – and often they seem to move into teaching. If teaching is something you enjoy or feel passionate about, here’s a great post on some thoughts you might want to consider…