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How to Run a Household Like a Business and Maintaining a Budget

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Running a Household Like A Business

When you assume the responsibility of running a household, you also must take an accounting of the costs it takes to make a house a home. In effect, how to run a household can be likened to running a business if you want your home life to be successful. That is why budgeting is so important in maintaining your home for you and your family. For example, just like a business, you should take an inventory of all those items you have on hand in your home for insurance and financial purposes. How to Run a Household Like a Business The Importance of Documents and Record Keeping Just like a business too, you should also keep an inventory and take an … Read more

How to Save Money on Your Electric Bill This Summer

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How to Save Money on Your Electric Bill This Summer

This past winter, I wrote about how you to save money on your electric bill this winter. But, now it is time to look at how to save money on your electric bill this summer. Come to find out, saving money in the summer is very similar to saving money on your electric bill in the winter as well. Saving money in the summer all comes down to keeping your cold air inside the house and not cooling down the entire neighborhood and also reducing the amount of air conditioning and electricity you are using in general. I routinely see my electric bill almost double during the summer after turning on my home’s air conditioning. There are several inexpensive and … Read more

RoofStock Review: A Marketplace to Buy and Sell Rental Homes Online

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Save Money and Time with Your Short-Term Rentals

If you’re looking for the best passive income ideas, then buying rental properties is one of the most lucrative options out there. It’s not the “set it and forget it” type of passive income, at least not in the beginning. Oftentimes, people focus so much on the potential for high returns on investment without considering the upfront work required to research different properties, evaluate the quality of the neighborhood and surrounding community, assess what the long-term gains might be, find and screen prospective tenants, maintain the property…and so on. It doesn’t sound so “passive” now, does it? Fortunately, RoofStock was designed to make the whole process of investing in rental properties much easier. In a nutshell, RoofStock helps investors buy … Read more