B & B - How About Running A Bed and Breakfast?

For those home owners already in the bed and breakfast business, this is a busy time of the year. Hanging out the signs again, putting the 'Vacancy' sign in the window and generally sprucing up the front of the house. In fact, many of us are thinking of smartening up the front of our homes as warmer weather beckons and the stores start bringing in plants. Everyone is ready for the spring, and people will be pulling out their maps again, ready to hit the road. If you live in an area ...

When Will Housing Hit A Bottom?

Have you wondered how much longer this real estate downturn can last? Or how much further real estate prices can decline due to the credit crisis? I have; but I could not find any hard data to support Wall Street speculation so I did my own research and what I found is we still may have a ways to go. I believe that the housing bottom, which is obviously inevitable, may be close but I do not believe we are there just yet and I have compiled the data to support this theory. I began my ...

Getting Green With Bamboo

What is all this fuss about being green? If your social conscience is pricking and you want to feel virtuously green, have you thought of utilizing bamboo? You can build a shed with it, eat it, sleep in it, walk on it, wear it, or grow it as a tree or bush to make more oxygen for the planet! Now that is being green! Bamboo is so fast growing it could be the most 'sustainable' and natural commodity on the planet! On the question of it being replaceable, well some bamboos can grow as much as ...