We’ve all heard about debt problems people have.  Common advice to people with multiple credit cards: pay extra on one card until the balance is paid off.  Then use that money to pay off and double up payments on the next credit card.  So on and so forth until all the credit cards are paid [...]

I’m hungry and when I’m hungry I talk about food.
Bacon is next to godliness.  
A few months ago I watched as a lady coated her bacon with maple syrup and baked it in the oven, rather than frying it.  Immediately intrigued, I dove into my secret bacon stash and tried it out.  It was absolutely [...]

Word has spread through my friends that I’m an excellent house-sitter.  This holds a lot of appeal because my friends travel.  A lot.  Whether it’s to the Pacific Northwest or across the pond, people are constantly on trips for weeks at a time.  It’s understandable that having someone you trust to look after your home [...]

In case you missed it, Ed McMahon from the Tonight Show and Publisher’s Clearing House fame is losing his home.  Anther foreclosure victim.  But not a victim of rising interest rates but rather a failure to make the monthly payments.
Nearly $644,000 in missed payments.
I have a lot of respect for Ed.  Do you know how [...]

After nearly 6 weeks of advertising, some interest is finally being shown in the available rental.
At first the rent was increased a little bit to see if the cashflow situation could be improved.  The feedback from those who did respond was that the market is saturated with great rentals.  A common question confronting them was [...]