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Increase in rents

Apartment rents are rising across the nation as tenants return to cities and soaring home prices push many would-be buyers out of the market. One data provider shows the median rent for a one-bedroom apartment is up 9.2% since the second quarter of 2020. Two-bedrooms...

Ammunition Shortages     

The coronavirus pandemic was listed, to be the overwhelming cause for the surge in US for gun sales; attributed to fears around social unrest and crime and, in some cases, people having more time for hunting. But now ammunition had quickly been depleted into short...

2022

There are some fun things that are going to impact all of our 2022. The supply chain is still bottlenecked and will take a good deal of time to straighten itself off.  Remember that stuck container ship in the Suez Canal, it got worse from there.  On 28 March, 2021,...

Private Candy Money

I have to admit I was unaware that upon the death of Forrest Mars Sr. (1999), he and his two sons were ranked No. 29, 30, and 31 by Forbes magazine’s list of richest Americans, and they each had a worth of approximately $4 billion. I never paid much attention to...

Bicycles

Bike prices shot up 10% to 15% last year, as the COVID-19 pandemic helped boost many homebound Americans’ appetite for outdoor recreation. Anything to get out of the house and not into a store to look for toilet paper. Industry watchers are expecting similar price...

Co-signer rights and responsibilities

You have been asked by one of your children to co-sign a note; either for a car, apartment or house. Where do you stand from a legal perspective? Ownership of property. Unfortunately, being a co-signer doesn’t give you rights to the property, car or other security...

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