How to Buy & Manage Rental Properties by Irene and Mike Milin.
Some good info, but a lot of it is out of date. Written in the 80’s when interest rates were 10-12%, and you could do things like assumable mortgages. And people couldn’t afford to buy houses on their own.
They advocate finding meek tenants who won’t assert their rights. Gives me a bit of the heebie-jeebies.
So, the Fool message boards are generally pretty intelligent, and often humorous.
However, it seems the the Folly In Georgia board is almost completely lacking a sense of humor. I’m embarrassed for my adopted state (as I often am).
This is not a very frequented board, and posts have never garnered more than 10 recommendations. (On the Fool Boards, you can recommend a post, and everyone has a limited number of recs a day). The most recommended post was someone asking where to stay/eat/visit in Georgia (10 recs), and the responses (9,8,7 recs). The next most recommended was a post that simply said “Good Afternoon Georgia” (6 recs). So, a low bar here, entertainment wise.
Someone posts a question, can anyone recommend a good maid service in Atlanta. Several folks responded with the types of prices to expect to pay ($60/hour), and the original poster balked.
So I replied:
Ooo! Ooo! I’ve got a devious idea!
At Dad’s Garage Theater, we used to use people who were sentenced to do community service to clean the joint. DUI offenders and stuff like that.
So register your place as a not-for-profit company, and get yourself some reprobates to do the spit shine!
If you want to make it legit, you could do a little puppet show in the kitchen or something for the local kids.
~dinoczar
who’s full of terrible ideas
Slightly witty, no recs though. But the punchline is, here’s a reply:
At Dad’s Garage Theater, we used to use people who were sentenced to do community service to clean the joint. DUI offenders and stuff like that.
So you want to allow convicts with petty theft and other bad life choice backgrounds into your home?
Fuskie
This post garnered 2 recs, and she didn’t even get the joke.
*sigh* Philistines.
I’m having trouble sleeping, because of this cold I’ve got.
One of the many things that is running through my head as I toss and turn:
Why, in the 1980’s John Hughes movie of the same name, did Anthony Michael Hall’s character refer to the group as The Breakfast Club? What was that a reference to? Nothing in the actual movie that I can see. Something in culture? No idea. And it’s always bugged me. Maybe it just sounded cool?
I have some sort of allergy or cold something right now.
It’s hard to be taken seriously as an electrical engineer when your voice squeeks every third word.
Up until 12:51 PM, I seriously believed that today was Wednesday.
The only reason I found out otherwise was that the K-Chronicles hasn’t been updated on Salon.
What was I thinking?
Well, apparently I’m a republican.
At least, the republican party has claimed me, in spite of never having voted republican. Or democrat, for that matter.
They sent me a Republican Party Census Document, where they ask a lot of loaded questions to confirm that all us republican’s are in line behind George W. The letter begins:
“Dear Fellow Republican,
You are among a select group of Republicans who have been chosen to take part in the official CENSUS OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.”
A census with great questions like :
“Should small businesses be encouraged to grow and hire more workers?”
Oh dear god no! Down with those small business owners! And their little dogs, too.
“Do you agree that teaching our children to read and increasing literacy rates should be a national priority?”
Screw ’em! What have the little snots done for me?
“Should the inheritance or “Death Tax” be permanently repealed?”
Words are powerful, aren’t they, you pollsters, you? To paraphrase Paula Poundstone, I wish they WOULD tax death, because after taxes, it might be just sort of a tired feeling, really.
“Do you support the President’s efforts to save Social Security and add a prescription drug benefit to Medicare?”
Does the president have any efforts to save Social Security that I can support?
And then at the end, of course they ask for money.
Dweebs.
A big welcome Shout out to
In the tradition of
If you visit their site, be careful. You can almost get ordained by accident if you’re not cautious. It’s just a few clicks away.
I’m kind of disappointed… I had heard you could pick your title, and I was hoping to be ordained as a Jedi Master or something like that. Perhaps that’s a different church.
I had a list of options:
Jedi Master
Captain G_d
Soul Man
His Holy Monkeyness
Chaotic-Neutral Cleric
But Reverend’s okay, too.
This morning as I was “driving” in (really more just sitting in 0 mph traffic on 400 Northbound), I was flipping through radio stations. There were two versions of “You’ve lost that loving feeling” on at the same time. It was timed so I could hear a line of lyric on one station, then flip to the other and hear the same lyric, but sung by someone else.
For absolutely no reason at all, I flipped back and forth that way for the entire song(s). When it was over, I had no idea why I bothered.
Atlanta traffic can make you craaaaazy.
When I perused my LJ Friends page this morning, it was all out of whack. The entries were all out of order, datewise, and the box with my image and links was further down the page than usual. Weird.
I’ve been assembling a subscriptions wish list…
Skeptical Inquirer $20/year
Entrepreneur Magazine $16/year
Atlanta Business Chronicle $87/year
I also have a predilection for essays. (I love the Best American Essays and Best American Nonrequired Reading series.)
Does anyone have a good recommendation for a periodical dedicated to essays?
Also, what are your favorite/desired subscriptions?