Our Big Project

My husband and I have been flipping houses for quite a few years now. We are currently working on the biggest project that we have ever taken on. We are converting a large house into four small apartments. One of the biggest tasks for the project was building four bathrooms. As there was not enough room in them for bathtubs, we decided on shower cubicles.

I am surprised at how little room the electric showers that we purchased take up in the small bathrooms. They look nice and the bathrooms seem to be very well put together. The project took is taking us a little bit longer than we had estimated at first, but we think we will be pleased with the final results.

We are almost ready to find renters for the four units and I am hoping that it will not be a big issue for people that they will only be able to take showers, rather than have a bath.

Posted July 15th, 2008 by Marc No Comments »


Is Futures Trading Gambling?

Do you gamble with your money? I’m not talking about slot machines or card games. No Vegas strip or Rio gambling halls either. What I’m talking about is trading futures.

The stock market and futures trading are highly volatile markets from what I’ve seen. They can be influenced by a number of things including natural disasters and government wars. The thing about futures is that you have to make a guess, albeit educated or not, about what price a particular piece of a company or type of product will fetch in the future.

Do you have a crystal ball? I sure wish I did! However, like I said, even educated guesses can be wrong at the whim of some political leader or the hand of mother nature. There are plenty of people who guess well though and make millions on trades of something they never actually even see or
touch like the price of oil for instance.

Posted April 23rd, 2008 by Jenn Brockman No Comments »