Mortgage Loan Closing Costs for Refinance Loans and Home Purchase
If you are going to obtain a mortgage loan, for whatever purpose (home purchase or refinance) you are going to pay closing costs...period. Let me clarify regarding a purchase of a home...the seller may pay some or even all the closing costs in a transaction, but it essentially works out to just ... more...

Real Estate Professional in the Palm of Your Hand
GETTING THE MOST FOR THE LEASE-TRACKING YOUR REAL ESTATEIf you own rentals and/or investment properties, you know that you have to keep track of your portfolio, maintenance profiles, property managers, and related financial matters. There are a multitude of programs for the Palm-Pilot system to ... more...

Are You at Risk for Identity Theft? Learn How to Protect Yourself
Identity Theft is Americas fastest growing type of robbery. There have been an estimated 9.9 million victims on America and over 40% of all consumer complaints in the U.S. involve identity theft. About half of the victims do not know how the thief obtained their personal information. The Boston ... more...

Parenting a Child with Sensory Integration Disorder
After suffering another incredibly stressful morning trying to get my 5 year old son dressed, Ive come to the conclusion that there must be other families who go through the same frustration every morning. Most just wouldnt believe that we have it different than anyone else who has young kids. ... more...

Worldwide Church of God... Since You Don't Listen
To begin with, this letter is for me and perhaps part of my own life experience and healing after a 26 year run as a Pastor in the Worldwide Church of God. I came to the Church philosophically at the age of 16, having grown up Presbyterian in a very stable and loving family. The teachings of the ... more...

How To Beat The Home-Based Burnout Blues
I went to visit a friend who had quit the corporate world to start his own art-based business. This was a guy who wore, if not a suit, at least a tie and jacket to work every day for a decade. All the curtains in his house were drawn and his bed was littered with color samples, catalogs and all ... more...

The 10 Golden Rules of Trading
1 IntroductionIn this article we cover the few important rules that should never be broken in trading. If you can apply these rules consistently, and with discipline, you will be well on the way to being a profitable trader.The rules we cover are: Have specific goals and objectives Be consistent ... more...

Halftime Betting for Football
There are several different ways bettors use the halftime wager, but for the most part, they use it more as a hedge bet. No matter how you want to bet a halftime bet, it is just another fun way to bet.A quick example of a halftime wager:Lets say you have a bet on the Dolphins and Bills game. The ... more...

Look at Me [completion of Chapter Two]
John Nobel [On down to New Orleans1925]Niggers singing and dancing on the wooded raft, must had drifted down the Ohio to the Mississippi, must be at least twenty of them, said John to himself, out loud. There were also some Negro babies he observed, women, and a few half breads, on the raft.It was ... more...