Five Dollars, Four Screws and Fifteen Minutes & I Had a New iPhone!!!
I’ve had my iPhone 4s for a couple of years now and started having problems keeping it charged. Sometimes the battery would get to 41% and the phone would just shut down. Sometimes it would get to 20% or 12% or 3% but once it got past 40% I needed to expect it to shut […]
Spice Up Your Life… Go To ZestFest!!!
Some like it HOT!!! Do you think you can take the heat? If you want to spice up your life… Go To ZestFest!!! If you are a fiery foods aficionado you’ll want to be at the Irving Convention Center this weekend when ZestFest brings together the spiciest exhibitors and products from around the country for […]
Painting Tips to Sell Your Home Quickly
No matter how much you rearrange or decorate a room, nothing affects appearance like a fresh coat of paint. When you enter a house, your eye may be drawn to little decorative touches, but all the staging in the world will fall flat if your paint is drab, dirty, or goes against the potential buyer’s […]
If My Home Has A FHA Loan… Can I Use It As A Rental Property?
I recently had a conversation with a client who has lived in a home for 12 years with a FHA loan and they wanted to rent it out when they bought another home. They had heard that they would have to refinance to a conventional loan or pay off the FHA loan before they could use […]
The Texas Foreclosure Process
The Texas Foreclosure Process is very short and simple. Homeowners in default on their mortgage can, by law, lose their home in as few as 41 days. And because Texas is a non-right of redemption state, there is no opportunity to reclaim your property once the foreclosure has taken place. For these reasons it is […]
Change is Hard – BUT – Only Different Leads To A New Destination!!!
Change is hard… Usually change is really really hard!!! However, all of us have something that we would like to change or know needs to change but we are having a hard time making it happen. Here is an article that I used for the Irving Fire Departments Strategic Planning Team but it applies to […]
Dallas ComicCon: Fan Days – October 4 – 6
October 4 – 6 Irving Convention Center 500 W Las Colinas Blvd Irving, TX 75039 (Map) Friday 1pm – 8pm, Saturday 11am – 7pm, Sunday 11am – 5pm Tickets are available in advance or at the Box Office Do you want to hang out with some of the most interesting people you will ever meet? […]
Financial Fitness Friday – Since The Government Is Shut Down This Seemed Appropriate – How To Balance Your Checking Account!!!!
In a time of government overspending and debate over the debt ceiling it seemed only appropriate that we talk about HOW TO BALANCE YOUR CHECKBOOK. I was reading Facebook today and came across this wonderfully quizzical post by Dale McCaskill… So, the Government Leaders say we have to raise the Debt Limit so we can […]
Financial Fitness Friday – You Gotta Be Knowin’ Where the Money is Goin’
How to Track Your Spending and Use the Envelope System You Gotta Be Knowin’ Where the Money is Goin’! That’s the first step to making your money behave. Have you ever gotten to the end of the month and wondered where all of the money went? Have you ever broken a $100 bill and […]
You’ll Be Seeing Less of Me In The Next Couple of Months – Accountability May Be Needed!!!
Happy 50th Birthday to ME!!! Yep, I turned the big 5 – 0 on Sunday! My wife and daughter threw a surprise party for me a couple of weeks ago so we were pretty low key this weekend. One of the coolest presents I got for my birthday came from my dad. Growing up in the […]