DISQUS

totally correct.

I turned my passion of coin collecting into an affiliate site to generate extra income every month.

I also run several blogs and together its enough money to pay rent and put food on the table - quite a good safety net to have.

congrats on the first manival!

keep up the good work.

I put EVERYTHING on my Amex Costco Cash Rebate card - food gets me 3% cash back. I also pay it off every month, so its essentially free money.

Two years ago I found out that I had spent about $6,000 on eating out. On the flip side, we did get $427 back at the end of the year!

I think its a possible scenario. not on the same scale, but possible nonetheless.

http://www.wealthbuildinglessons.com/2007/05/09...

i guess i'll have to read the clan of the cave bear.

while I agree with you, somewhere along the way I got confused!!! :-D

i owned 3 modest properties in SoCal, which of which I sold at the peak in summer 2005.

I now rent, happy to see prices falling to below what I "bought" the properties for in in 2003.

The money went to purchasing 5 properties out of state, all with 20% down!

You get a different perspective when u have your own money at stake, rather than relying on some theorectical info or what you hear from bldrs & agents.

check out this link: http://www.mises.org/story/2728

I hope there's a recession too. It doesn't make sense for the avg family to pay 60%+ of its income for housing in SoCal.

And everyone makes money in a boom cycle, but you have to be pretty smart to make money in a bust cycle!

While NAR is the cheerleader for the real estate industry, and as cheerleaders, they know THE LEAST about real estate economic cycles, I don't know if I Cramer has it right either.

I agree with his conclusion, but I feel he has not reached it propertly. He says he's talked to home builder who say business is bad. Home builders are another bunch who overbuild and buy way more land than they need at the top of real estate cycles.

They've been getting it wrong for years and if they couldn't see the peak in housing when 25% of all home purchases were 2nd homes or investment homes & 74% of purchases in California were adjustable mortgages, they probably won't know a bottom either.

There is no way we'll see a bottom next year. The fed is reducing interest rates and this will help a soft landing. That is if you mean a slow, drawn out correction lasting several years instead of a quick, deep correction. And it will come at the expense of a deep recession.

this site is awesome!

everybody's body is different. you just need to see what suits you.
the very low carb diet worked wonderfully for me.

thats awesome.

How much does a capuchin cost and are we allowed to keep them as pets?
I'd love to have one.

i was stopped at Singapore airport.

apparently the morons at LAX had taped an I-94 to my passport picture page and there was still a bit of cellotape stuck to the picture.

the female at singapore airport thought my passport was tampered with.
So i was made to wait for 45 mins. I didn't help that I "wondered off" to use the rest room and that i got into a shouting match when they wouldn't tell me the reason I was detained either.

Eventually I squatted down on the floor and created a bit of a scene and they eventually let me go. I was on vacation, i can afford to be a pain in the neck!

But I went through the stupid what do you do and where do you live routine.

I went on a low carb diet once. I spent 3 and a half weeks eating eggs, fried fish, mangoes and coffee with skim powdered milk. I lost about 50 pounds in that time.

I was probably eating about 1200 calories a day. didn't feel tired, and I aced all my exams too!

i've only bet once. I got a superfecta i think its called. 20 to 1 odds. only it was close to the start and instead of betting $10, the clerk only bet $1.

anyway, the $20 winnings was awesome!

shouldn't they atleast get their $35k back from the 'consultant'?

my site's been up for 2 months and its PR5 already.

Quality rules - don't need a $35k consultant to tell me that!

I can't wait to check it out!