One of the biggest things that has been bothering me about potentially becoming an owner of investment property, is the whole concept of becoming a landlord.  I have never been very handy and I don’t really have the time or desire to learn how to do maintenance.  But, most of the property investors that I know do it all themselves - something that I never want to do.

It wasn’t until I spoke to Bill at a conference that I found my solution.  You see, he is in the same boat as me, and he didn’t want to become a landlord when he bought his first house.  Instead, he looked for solutions at the time and found a property management company that would take care of all the "messy" stuff when it comes to owning an investment property, and he would just collect the checks.

I am going to take his advice, and I have arranged a meeting with a residential property management firm for next week to see what the price is and what is involved.  I may own my first rental property yet!

I am not a big fan of keeping secrets and I would rather share my success with others so that they can benefit from my knowledge.  You see, I believe that everyone should have the right to succeed, but if they get a little help along the way, that should be allowed.

For me, I owe my MLM success to the MLM lead generation skills that I have developed.  Sure, they didn’t just come to me overnight, but it took many years for me to get to the level that I needed to succeed in my business.  It has involved a lot of trial and error, but I have honed my skills to an art.

Another thing that I did early on was engage in blogging for profit and not just for fun.  With the goal of making money in mind, I was catering to a different audience, one that had money to spend.  So, I found a lot of referrals and sales by following this practice, and it has helped my bottom line out immensely.

I would have to say that the biggest contributor to my success has been the support of my family - without them, I would have never taken the journey.

I am so sick of this new “technological” world that we live in. The one thing that makes me angry, more than anything else, is the fact that you can never talk to a human anymore when you call a toll free number. It is always a machine that gives you options.

There is, of course, not an option for the information that you are looking for and you end up on the phone for twenty minutes and get absolutely no where. By the time you ever get to talk to someone, you are so angry over the digitized message that you forget what you called about in the first place.

My suggestion is that if you are going to have a toll free service for your products, you should at least make it easy for consumers to navigate. Otherwise, you end up with customers like me, and trust me, you don’t want that.

I absolutely love webinars! I think they’re the greatest thing since, well, the Internet! I especially like those that allow us to not only hear what’s being said, but also that have visuals. I’ve been a apart of so many types I can hardly count. Some of the topics include article writing and primarily Internet marketing - including building a web site, choosing a domain name, free MySQL hosting, blogging, podcasting, creating products, web 2.0, self-promotion, ADD, outsourcing, and the list just goes on and on and on.

Now that I’m getting to the point where I should be holding webinars of my own, I am just a bit apprehensive. I don’t know if the technology will do me in or not. I’m not a technophobe, by any means, but hosting a teleseminar or a webinar is a whole other thing from being a participant. If you’re wondering what that sound is, it’s my muse, clucking like a chicken, putting me to shame. Sheesh! So much for a muse being inspiring.

I have always been a fan of maps - if you follow them, you rarely get lost.  At least that is how it has been all of my life, and I tend to stick with what I know.

But when we rented a car to go to a convention out of town, it was equipped with one of those GPS devices that you always hear about on the news and in stores.  I guess my wife ordered it so that we would have a smoother trip, though I didn’t understand why she didn’t trust my maps.

It took a while to get used to using the device, but once we started it was clear that it worked amazingly well.  Even the time that we were talking a bit too much and missed our turn, it told us nicely how to get back on track.

Sadly, the maps were forgotten, and we relied on the GPS the whole trip.  I think my wife is going to buy me one for my birthday, at which point I don’t think that I will ever use a map again.

When my husband first told me that he was quitting his job to stay home and work on his Internet business, I was furious. I figured that he was letting his whole family down and that there was no way he would be able to support us with his meager Internet earnings.

I also knew that if I told him that he could not do it that he would eventually resent it, so I let him quit his job, knowing that when it got bad enough, he would go back to work. He bought into some Internet advertising tools and at that point, I figured that he was putting way too much back into the company and not enough into our refrigerator.

Soon though, he started making real money and within a few months, he far surpassed the income he had been making at his job. I had to admit that I was wrong and I am pleased that his dream is actually becoming a reality.

A couple of years ago, I found myself without employment for the first time in my life.  You see, I was laid off from my job at a meat packing plant, and I was unable to find a place to work.  I did have some savings that carried me through the first couple of months, but after that, I was in trouble.

Thankfully, I had a line of credit that I was able to use to keep me from starving, but it took six months for me to get another job, at which point I was in trouble.  I was in debt up to my eyeballs, and I was looking at going bankrupt - something I really didn’t want to do.

It was at that point I found out about bill consolidation loans and how they could help me out of my predicament.  Though it meant that I would have a long road ahead of me to set things straight, I knew that it was the right thing to do.

I just finished making my last payment and I feel better knowing that I didn’t have to go bankrupt.  Now that the burden of debt is gone, I will be able to get on with my life.

Hard water in a home or business can ruin appliances over time. Extremely hard water can make your appliances lousy investments. So, what do you do if you have hard or very hard water?

You buy a water softener system which helps to filter out the heavy debris like minerals from the water before it ever gets to your pipes and into your appliances like the dishwasher clothes washer and the ice maker on your refrigerator.

Honestly though, most commonly known water softeners are made only to handle mildly hard water and then they only last for a while. I recommend that you do your homework and research systems made for very hard water and that have been tested effective over many years, not just a few.

Finding strait answers might be difficult but it seems that when it comes to water softeners Phoenix is one of the best testing grounds due to their extremely hard water so if you find reviews from people who live in that area, you probably found a winner in water softener system.

The ring I got from my ex husband when he proposed to me was so far from what I wanted, that I should have known right then and there that the marriage wouldn’t work. I had spent months showing him diamond rings in gold, platinum and even sterling silver, explaining what it was that I wanted in engagement rings.

Apparently he wasn’t listening. I had asked for an eternity ring which a ring set with diamonds in a channel that goes completely around the ring. It didn’t even have to be real diamonds, I would have been fine with CZ since it was the style that mattered to me.

What I got was a yellow gold band with some emerald baguettes in it and one little tiny diamond chip. I’m not even sure how to describe the setting but it wasn’t anything at all like what I wanted.
Call me petty, go ahead. I think he should have listened to me though.

When I was in college I had the craziest friends.  In fact, I think we all still like to be alive and out of prison.  We were not only wild and out of control, but we were stupid and irresponsible and we had no regard for anybody around us and for how our actions could affect them.  We also had no regard for the law and we lived our lives one day at a time, never giving thought to how it may affect our future.

One of the stupidest things we ever did was rent out a self storage Philadelphia unit and spend the whole weekend partying in it and trashing the place. We did eventually get caught and we were arrested and charged.  This was the turning point for me and I realized that I could no longer go on this way or even hang on to the friends I had.

I started to get serious about my education in my life and I turned my life completely around.  I promised myself that day that I would make my parents proud and become the person that they had always wanted me to be.  I am actually thankful that I got arrested as it proved to be the only thing that maybe stop and think of someone besides myself.