Mar

10

Schools : How to Get Good Education? Choices…

March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment

Education is priceless but our wallets are not bottomless.  We all want the higest education for kids, but there is a point where we have to call it enough - not because we want to, but because we can’t go further.  The governemnt provides education for kids in the US.  Fairly good one compared to [...]

Mar

7

People are loosing their jobs, and they do not want them back!

March 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Loosing your job used to be a terrible thing to happing.  People used be afraid of the mere idea.  It doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.  Today, we found an interesting statistic from the Labor Department: 63,000 jobs lost, but unemployment drops from 4.9% to 4.8%.
It is easy feel surprised.  Less jobs, less unemployment.  [...]

Mar

7

Paying Rent By Credit Card?

March 7, 2008 | 6 Comments

Today I read for the first time that people are paying rent by credit card.  I must have been out of this world for a while, as it seems it has become a common practice.  I am a landlord of two properties and never heard of it, yet it seems to be widespread.
The advantage to [...]

Mar

6

Poor’s Man Portfolio : An Experiment

March 6, 2008 | 2 Comments

There is a portfolio that I have designed, with the poor man in mind. The poor man is yours truly, of course, as I have lost so much money on the stock market that I am heading for the poorhouse. I don’t even have any money to buy stocks right now, so I [...]

Mar

5

Safer or Riskier? DIA Options Trading

March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Between yesterday and today I tried a new strategy I had never tried before. Instead of buying stocks or stock options, I decided to watch the DIA Exchange Traded Fund (ETF). This fund tracks the DOW 30 performance. Both yesterday and to a lesser extent where very volatile days. The DOW climbed down yesterday more [...]

Mar

4

I Want Expensive Gas!

March 4, 2008 | 3 Comments

(Ironic article, a bit severe…  somewhat fun, somewhat true). 
Yes, that is right, I want expensive Gasoline.  Bring it on!!  But I do not want $3 or $4.  I want $10 per gallon or some other outrageous number.  I want the government to put a greater tax on the gasoline gallon purchased by the consumer.  I want [...]

Mar

3

Real Estate Tax: Won Battle #1 : This is not finished

March 3, 2008 | 2 Comments

Last month we had to abate (appeal) the Real Estate Tax Assessment the town had placed upon one of our rental properties. We got $25,000 shaved off the assessed value. We still think the town is over-assessing the property by $25,000. At a 1.2% rate, we are talking about $300 we will [...]

« go back
 

Recomended Links:

* Your Link Here