Do you do due?

Diligence, that is. Due diligence is the process of doing the appropriate research so as to be able to make a wise decision or avoid a costly error. Due diligence is getting a professional inspection done on a property before we buy it. Due diligence is collecting...
I. Feel. Your. Pain.

I. Feel. Your. Pain.

Help! My landlord sold the place I’m in and now I have to move! I’m so tired of moving every couple of years! I want my own place!   I get those kinds of calls and emails regularly. I’m sick of moving all the time, is a common theme, one of the big reasons people...
Make your travel dreams come true!

Make your travel dreams come true!

My passion to see the world must have started by about age five. Though I was never able to realize that passion earlier in life, it never died, either. Family and work responsibilities always came first, though (as they should). By age 55, I’d still never crossed an...
I wouldn’t choose that lifestyle (but I would learn from it)

I wouldn’t choose that lifestyle (but I would learn from it)

“My life goes back to normal (on Monday, Jan.4),” a prospective tenant said to me. He meant that Monday was his return to his job after the Christmas break. I understood where he was coming from. After a Christmas-New Year’s break, life returns to the way it was...

My hopes for 2016; aka New Year’s Resolutions suck!

Right about now, you’re likely receiving all sorts of New Year’s greetings and encouragements to make New Year’s resolutions.   Well, you know what? New Year’s resolutions suck! I can’t state it any clearer than that!   I heard a statistic recently that only...