FROM SNOWY VILLAGES TO YEAR-ROUND HOLIDAY CHEER Explore America’s Most Magical Christmas Towns
WOODSTOCK, VERMONT During Woodstock’s Wassail Weekend, you’ll find the town in peak Christmas mode, where you can experience parades, horse-drawn carriages, carolers, and the Billings Farm, a local favorite of the season. Stroll down Main Street to witness an idyllic Christmas spot filled with cozy small-town shops and restaurants. NORTH POLE, ALASKA If you ever feel like celebrating Christmas in the middle of summer, we know the perfect destination. North Pole, Alaska, offers Christmas decor and festivities year-round! Here, you can get up close and personal with Santa’s reindeer, meet the man himself, and enjoy the snow that covers the entire town. Be sure to check out their ice sculpture competition, which features artists from all over the world! Ready for the Christmas celebration of your dreams? Start planning your next holiday vacation at any of these destinations, and we promise your dreams will most definitely come true!
country. Make your next Christmas trip feel like a Hallmark movie at one of these festive towns!
LEAVENWORTH, WASHINGTON Many have dubbed Leavenworth the most Christmas-centric in the U.S., and it’s easy to see why. This Bavarian-style village experiences nearly 96 inches of snowfall every year, and they certainly don’t hold back when it comes to the holidays. The town lights up and decorates almost 21 miles, where you can find reindeer farms, carolers, gingerbread competitions, and Christmas markets. Every step of the way offers an Instagram-worthy photo opportunity! SOLVANG, CALIFORNIA A slice of Denmark right in sunny California, Solvang brings endless holiday cheer, especially with their annual Julefest. Pronounced “Yule- fest,” this month-long festival takes place every December and features picturesque events, including a ballerina-filled tree lighting ceremony, visits from Santa, culinary delights, traditional Danish celebrations, and much more!
It may be too late for less spontaneous travelers to start planning a Christmas vacation. But that shouldn’t stop you from planning next year’s holiday journey! The good news is you don’t need to venture to another continent to find a Christmas wonderland. There are countless picture-perfect Christmas towns across the
Are You in the Huddle or on the Sidelines?
HOW TO SHIELD YOUR INVESTMENTS FROM EXTERNAL EVENTS
We are finally knee-deep into football season. As you know from my emails, it is my son Isaiah’s last year and my and Gina’s final year of kids activities. We have been doing this with all our kids for over 25 years. Isaiah’s game on Saturday reminded me of the upcoming discounted real estate properties we will see in 2023 and big time in 2024. Investors will either get involved, decide to play the game and get in the huddle, or choose to watch from the sidelines. Which will you be as these projects become available? Will it ONLY be the rich or the well-connected who have the first shot at acquiring these properties? I have been around a long time and know this will be the case. I have seen this before. 5 MULTIFAMILY PILLARS Over the next few issues of the newsletter in 2024, I think it is crucial to cover the main Pillars of Multifamily Investing and Ownership that you need to use for your multifamily ownership and investing.
With that in mind, let’s start with Pillar No. 1 this month — Insulation! One of the surprising things most investors do NOT consider is whether or not the investment they plan on getting involved in, whether active or passive, is insulated from the following:
Knowing this, we as investors need to choose an investment that is mostly immune to these events or, at least, have SOME of our money parked in these investments primarily immune to these events. We could come up with a list of such investments, of course. Not surprisingly, multifamily is part of this list. People still need a place to live no matter what happens with China, Ukraine, or a refinery shutting down somewhere. People still need to live, and they need shelter. This is one of the reasons many get involved with me here in the Heartland, owning multifamily. It “buys” them better protection than many other conventional investments. Stay tuned for the other four pillars in upcoming issues. For more information on being involved as a member of our Heartland Investment Family, simply go to DarinGarman.com , and I will have our latest offerings sent over to you — always with zero obligation.
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If you wonder what I am talking about, take your favorite stock as an example. Many times, the ups and downs of that stock are NOT related to how well the company is doing. A decrease in share price is often based on something outside of the stock, such as a refinery having to shut down during a flood or a fire. Or the ongoing war with Russia and Ukraine, how well that goes, or any military exercises China decides to engage in. I get tired of hearing about news happening everywhere that has nothing to do with my stocks. But my stock value is subject to plummeting because of what I call unrelated investment events like these.
–Darin
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