If you value your time, or only like doing business with true professionals, do yourself a favor and avoid dealing with Properties Plus LLC at all costs! My wife and I are currently in the market for a rental house. We both have great credit, I’m a current homeowner, and in general we are great [...]

My friend Rod recently had a very bad experience with Kathryn MacGeraghty and her team at Blue Sage Realty in Westminster, CO: We requested the lease be amended to give us 30 days after move-in to evaluate the A/C, the electricity, and see the upstairs bathroom for the first time. We had hoped that they [...]

American Furniture Warehouse 8501 Grant Street Denver, CO 80229 (303) 289-4100 Rating: 1 out of 5 stars Do you remember those old couches your Grandma had? You know, the big fluffy ones with tacky floral prints? You can find the exact same version of those at AFW! Although they do have a few things here [...]

I came across an article today on how to keep babies and annoying kids in places they don’t belong to go somewhere else. Being young and unmarried with a dog that I only take to places where she’s invited, I have to say I find myself being annoyed way too often by kids with behavioral [...]

One of several fun genetic traits I’ve inherited is sinus problems. I grew-up with many ear infection related problems, and still to this day have frequent sinus problems and allergies. My mom has actually had one of the sinus surgeries performed to help with sinus problems, and I think I’m getting closer and closer to [...]

Rather than buying an “all-in-one” system or spending tons of money on my home entertainment system, I’ve piece mealed a very modest HDTV with 6.1 Surround Sound system over the years. I’ve always been an electronics and audio nerd, and I enjoy building things like this from scratch, attemping to match speakers which will likely [...]

Seth Stevenson at Slate shows you how to cut through the marketing hype and buy a Mattress: s there a more maddening industry? They confuse us with silly product names (the Sealy Posturepedic Crown Jewel Fletcher Ultra Plush Pillowtop or the Sealy Posturepedic Crown Jewel Brookmere Plush?). They flummox us with bogus science (“pocketed coils”? [...]

Given that I’m a technical writer myself, I found a blog entry about how to write good tutorials to be fairly interesting. Here is an example excerpt from the article A quality tutorial requires planning and hours of work… if you wrote a tutorial in 10 minutes, then I can guarantee you that it’s useless [...]

Anyone who’s accumulated any amount of money in their lifetime will likely tell you that you can’t make money by spending it all the time, and likely lives well beneath their means. One of the ways to save money (and who doesn’t like to save money?) is to avoid ridiculous fees and charges that corporate [...]

Now that Christmas is over, many people are out taking advantage of the many deals that retailers are offering. This reminded me of a link I came across earlier this year which offered advice on the best time to buy many products. Some of the items include: Airplane Tickets Appliances Cars Clothing .. and many [...]