Archive for August, 2007

More credit card fraud

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Since I had $2000 taken from my brokerage account last year I set up email alerts on almost any type of transaction taken from any of my accounts.  Yes, it has been very annoying for the past year but the monitoring paid off on Monday. I got an email of a transaction from one ...

Enjoying the moment

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

I made a post about something similar to this before called Living in the moment a few months ago.  That post was about how we let our minds and not our surrounding control our moods. Yesterday I was watching the Bears and Colts preseason game and they were interviewing Peyton Manning ...

Do we want to learn about everything?

Monday, August 20th, 2007

There are some things in the world that I wish I've never learned.  I'm naturally curious about everything.  But I've learned to let some things be and become ignorant of other things.  Why?  Because sometimes learning some things takes away from my enjoyment of it. About 7 years ago I was buying ...

The psychology of losing money

Friday, August 17th, 2007

The stock market has been going on a crazy ride in these past few months.  Trading options is almost a sure way to lose money.  But you just have to make more than you lose right?  Why is it no big deal to watch these huge daily fluctuations in my brokerage ...

Why you shouldn’t worry

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

I try not to worry about anything.  I never really understood the meaning of the word because its all about the act of thinking thoughts that make you feel bad.  People usually worry about something in which they have no control over.  Because if they did, they wouldn't be worried ...

2008 Super Bowl Rental Homes in Phoenix, AZ (part 2)

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Part 1 of this post is here: 2008 Super Bowl Rental Homes in Phoenix, AZ (part 1)  If you are looking for a place to list your home, please read my post titled: Warning when listing your home for the Super Bowl. There are many investors like me who had an empty home ...

2008 Super Bowl Rental Homes in Phoenix, AZ (part 1)

Monday, August 13th, 2007

The 2008 football preseason is in full swing.  My post about renting out your home for the 2008 Super Bowl is quickly becoming one my most viewed posts.  In fact, if you do a Google search for "Superbowl rental 2008", my site is the #1 search result.  I have been getting ...