10 Step Credit Repair Guide
The process of clearing credit can be laborious and frustrating, but your efforts will be paid for in better financing. Your rights are protected by laws, but you need to take reasonable actions toward your goal of clearing credit discrepancies. You can get the credit reporting agencies to help you ... more...

Budgeting Your Log Home - Creating a Checklist
If you've read my first article, BUDGETING YOUR LOG HOME: Where do you start?, you've got a very basic overview of the process. However, there are still a number of questions I'd like to address. Again, many of these questions will come up if you build any custom home, but I'd venture to guess the ... more...

Drowning in Debt? Tips and Tricks for Getting Out of Hot Water with Creditors
Do you, like millions of other Americans, feel like youre sinking in an ocean of credit card debt? Well, fear not--there are many options for reducing your debt way before you have to be concerned about receiving notices or daunting telephone calls from debt collectors. The important thing to ... more...

Housewarming Gift Ideas - What is Appropriate?
A friend of yours has just made the transition from renter to homeowner. So what to give as a housewarming gift? Friends that you are close with are the easiest. You want it to be personal, memorable as purchasing the home was.You can wait for the housewarming party or you can take the initiative ... more...

Calling All Carbon-Based Lifeforms
Many businesses want to market to all carbon-based life forms. They won't take the time to really understand their audiences from geographic, demographic and psychographic perspectives.Marketers waste a lot of time and money when they consider everyone a prospect. It requires research and a lot of ... more...

Environment - Anxiety & Panic
Can the environment that surrounds you agitate and prolong your wellness?The answer is definitely YES!If youre living in stressful, negative and or cluttered conditions you can expect this to take a toll on you and how you feel on the inside and out.Take for example in part of my Anxiety & Panic ... more...

Self Employed Loans - When Being Self Employed Is The Impediment
Being self employed has always been associated with challenges. Is finding a loan for self employed one of them? Is it? Well with loans for self employed suffer more from lack of information rather than lack of choices. Self employed people often complain of lack of information available when it ... more...

Secured Loans Information
A secured loan is a personal loan which is generally offered to home owners. In a typical secured loan, the home is used as collateral against the loan, meaning that should you be unable to maintain the loan repayments, your home will be at risk.A secured loan is a loan made with an asset, often ... more...

Family Feud with an Auction Deadline Adventures in Probate/ Estate Purchases
One of our investor students told us of an interesting probate deal or "adventure" they're working on now and while it's a good story, it also illustrates lots of the ins and out of probate or estate issues and purchases.The Seller (we'll call him Scott) co-owned this house with his mom, and he ... more...

Internet Basics: eCommerce is Like Playing House
Ever play house as a kid? You dont even have to be in a house to play it. You just say, The kitchens over there, and this is the laundry, and heres the garage, and so on. You make it all up in your mind, but none of its really there.You can add stuff whenever you want, and you can decide its the ... more...

Spam with Typos: Why Do They All Have Spelling Errors?
A friend asked me: I don't get it. Why do spammers have such a hard time spelling things properly? I get mail trying to sell me "viagggra", increase my "brest" size, or save me money accessing "pr0n" sites or buying "seks toys". Even more puzzling, there are plenty of spam messages where it ... more...