It is very possible to buy a relatively “safe” rental property that will all but guarantee you a steady income and help to make you wealthy in the long term. The keys to success are location, cost versus cash flow, and quality tenants.
Buying a rental property is the ultimate savings plan. You can buy the house and your tenants will pay it off for you over the life of the mortgage at effectively no cost to you. Fifteen to thirty years later, your house is paid off and has most likely appreciated significantly since you bought it. I like to say, “If I walked up to you today and told you “sign this paper and in 20 years I’ll give you a fully paid off house for free”, would you do it? Of course you would! Continue reading ‘The right way to buy a rental property’
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This box is amazing. Make skype like your home phone and more.
I have now purchased four of these for everyone in my family. I have two installed in Europe and two installed here in the USA. The basic functionality is that it lets you use your home phone to talk on skype.
When you get a skype call, your home phone rings. It works simultaneously with a land line as well. You can have skype and your land line connected at the same time. When you get a skype call your phone will ring differently than when a landline call comes in. It also acts like call waiting. If you’re on a skype call and you get a regular call, you’ll hear beeps just like call waiting and can flip between the two calls. It works with answering machines too. Incoming calls will ring the same number of times as your landline calls and your answering machine will pick up and they can leave a message just like a regular call. Continue reading ‘Vosky Call Center (or as I call it – The Skype Box)’
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When you delete a file from your hard drive, the file itself is not actually deleted. Instead, windows deleted the reference to the file from the computer’s “table of contents”. This tells the computer that the space on the hard drive taken by that file is now available and can be overwritten.
Here’s the catch: the file you *thought* you deleted, is still actually there until your computer decides to actually overwrite that space. You could potentially have data you deleted months ago still sitting on your hard drive and easily retrievable.
Continue reading ‘How can I wipe erased data off of a hard drive or folder??’
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