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DoughtyRental.com lives again

admin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:44 +0000

Long ago, I had a house I rented to people. Being a geek, I put up a website for my company, Doughty Rental.

I don’t rent to any now, but I am probably going to start investing in rentals in the future. In the meanwhile, I’m tracking the work I do on my house, at that location. To be honest, I’m a complete amateur when it comes to home renovation, so it might just be humorous to read what I post up over there.

Link to doughtyrental.com (like you couldn’t type it )

Is Your Bank Safe?

admin — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:07:28 +0000

So most of you know that over 100 more banks are now under a deathwatch by the FDIC. How can you prevent this from happening to you? Well, the obvious part is to never keep more than 100k in one bank. But lets say you just don’t want the hassle of a bank failure to affect you. Well then choose a good bank!

I know, you’re thinking, I don’t know how to read all those fancy schmancy financial documents. But wait, there’s someone who will do it for you. Bankrate.com’s Safe and Sound evaluates banks to see how good of shape they’re in. My credit union gets a C score. I’m okay with that because they have a ton of things that I require in a credit union, but be assured, I’ll be checking back to bankrate.com frequently to see if it’s been downgraded.

Link to the bankrate.com tool.

Old School, Yo!

admin — Sat, 29 Oct 2005 22:10:31 +0000

heh, I’m working on setting up a financial blog. In the process of coming up with something anonymous to use as a name I stumbled across this:

http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1993/11/msg00160.html

I know there’s evidence of me being on the web earlier than this but I thought it was funny to find something from 12 years ago.