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Types of Investors

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Over the weekend, during a family visit, I had a conversation with one of my nephews – a thirty something husband, father and CFO of a small company. He and his family currently live in a home in a suburban subdivision. Real estate investors. Real estate is a time honored way for individuals to invest.

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7 Reasons to Lease Your Vacation Condo

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Your family won’t gather there anymore. We bought our condo as a family gathering spot, some place fun to come to visit with each other. After a few years, the shine wears off and family members get busy with other areas of their lives and just don’t have the time to gather at the vacation condo each year.

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Breakfast Ideas and Menu Planning Tips

Family Balance Sheet

"If your grocery spending has spiraled out of control, yet you often feel like you have “nothing” to eat", then head over to Money Crashers for 10 Family Meal Planning Tips and Ideas on a Budget. The site is a wealth of information and I encourage you to go check it out. Are you familiar with Money Crashers ? Thanks for reading.

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Craft Ideas To Entertain the Kiddos When They Are Stuck Inside

Family Balance Sheet

The website strives to educate individuals in making wise choices about credit and debt, investing, education, real estate, insurance, spending, and more." The site is a wealth of information and I encourage you to go check it out. Their "mission is to develop a community of people who try to make financially sound decisions.

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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It seemed reasonable to devote a greater portion to real estate, in order to further diversify our portfolio. Gather the family. Gathering supplies, deep cleaning, locating companies to clean between rentals, posting information on advertisement sites, responding to queries, billing clients, and many more tasks eat time.

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3 Simple Office Supplies for Smooth Tax Prep

Family Balance Sheet

For our personal tax returns, I keep an ongoing "Taxes" file for any paper work that we need to support our tax deductions, such charity receipts, Goodwill donations receipts, real estate and school tax statements, year-end statements for mortgage interest, student loan interest, interest-bearing checking and savings accounts.

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HGTV and #lovehome Giveaway

Nicoles Nickels

Home is your family, your friends, or your favorite neighborhood hangout. Every day we share with you all of our experts in renovation, real estate and design, on air and online. We want to see real photos, from real viewers, of all things home. What does home mean to you and your readers? Home is your city.

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