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How is Your Vacation Rental Doing?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We planned our purchase in the heady days just prior to the recession of 2008/2009. Wouldn’t it be fun to have a place where our sons, their wives and our grandchildren could come together to play, visit and bond? Property values had risen considerably in our married lifetime and we thought they would continue to do so.

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How to Handle the Stock Market Roller Coaster Ride?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you want to read up on that stuff, plenty of it was written in 2008 and 2009. Dollar cost average that saved up cash into emerging companies that I think will flourish in the next fifty years. Write down my life experiences on economic downturns for the future benefit of my grandchildren. Here are a few links.

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Stay the Course Financially

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

When the Great Recession began in 2008/2009, my boss at the time (a Vice President of the company) and her spouse consulted their financial adviser to see what they should do. My grandchildren’s other set of grandparents are just one example. personal saving rate bottomed out at around 1% in the third quarter of 2005.