Do you have a family of four or more and live in a one-bathroom bungalow? Or are you planning to move into a one-bathroom bungalow with your growing family? It’s not easy, but some things can help make your one-bathroom bungalow work for your growing family. Keep reading for tipsContinue Reading
Selecting the right location for your own home is one of the most important decisions to make. So, how do you know where to start? This decision can change the way you live for years to come, so it’s best not to take this step lightly. In this guide, weContinue Reading
Getting a mortgage is something most people dream about. The act of buying your own home brings with it so much freedom, and people truly enjoy the feeling of ownership over their home. Unfortunately, not everyone can afford a mortgage, and so they may have to work hard to getContinue Reading
We’ve all heard the old saying before buying a home, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.” In the real estate market, we see this all of the time. There are many great properties that end up on the auction block each and every day. It’sContinue Reading
With the recent rally in gold, we’ve been hearing a lot about precious metals. Actually ever since the financial meltdown last year the gold bugs out there has been much more boisterous… so I’ve finally broke down and prepared a post on gold and silver. This is another one that’sContinue Reading
I did a post on ComFree back in the spring, and figured it would be a good time to do an update on them after the eventful summer real estate experienced. Compare how they fared to the conventional resale market. So, without further ado… The prices look to have trended up, asContinue Reading
Continuing our consumer debt series, and today we’ll take a look at how interest rates play into things. So lets jump right in and start with interest rates and bankruptcies. Here I’ve overlayed interest rate and the national and provincial bankruptcy rates. What we can take from this graph isContinue Reading
Spent most of yesterday sorting through my database full of info… updating, upgrading and quite a bit of deleting. Long over due as it was a colossal mess, and I needed a refresher over what I had. It was good and got a ton of ideas about things I couldContinue Reading
Hope everyone enjoy their Thanksgiving long weekends, and filled up with turkey and complex carbohydrates. In the comments section of last weeks post on consumer debt someone referenced these stats on bankruptcies/insolvencies in Canada. I managed to find their historical bankruptcy numbers, but not the proposal and total insolvency stats (insolvencies = bankruptcies +Continue Reading
I got my Wild Cherry Diet Pepsi, and I got my Black Jack gum here, and I got that feeling… mmm that familiar feeling that something rank is going down up there. Yeah, I can smell it. I can almost taste it. Summer is gone and it’s fucking snowing again!Continue Reading