On the heels of my recent music-inspired blog entry, someone in our office emailed me the following line from the song “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots:  Out of student loans and tree-house homes we all would take the latter.  While there’s no arguing that a home loan is preferable over a student loan, it […]

  Please allow me to introduce you to a gentleman by the name of Benjamin Hammond Haggerty. He didn’t invent a cure for a dreaded disease or build an engine that runs on hugs and sunshine. However, what he did may have greater influence on and provide more inspiration to our current generation of first-time […]

Currently, there’s a commercial on television for Allstate advertising their policy for full replacement of a motorcycle if you total your new one.  It’s short but succinct with a bit of humor at the end.  Good for you, Allstate!  However, it doesn’t exactly ring true.  If you total your car, there’s a good chance you’re […]

With low inventory of good homes to purchase, what’s a first-time homebuyer to do?  Sure, buying a fixer upper is a possibility, but there’s another (more financially rewarding) option to consider. With only a 3.5% down payment, a first-time homebuyer could purchase a duplex, triplex, or fourplex!  Awesome!!!!! Wait, did I lose you there?  Hear […]

Right now, there’s a popular . . . I’m not sure what to call it, honestly, but it’s a thing a bunch of people are doing on Facebook where they post a list of ten concerts they’ve supposedly attended, and you have to guess which one is an outright lie.  I’m not sure if the […]