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Is Smaller Better?

I originally wrote this in 2008:  Small is really big now. (Terrible play of words but I had to.) Somehow as families got smaller, homes got bigger.  In the 50’s the average size home was about 1300 sf .  Now it is over 2000 sf.  Thanks to credit we could buy more stuff and we […]

This Home Raffle Did Work

They actually sold enough tickets to hold the raffle, 5000 for $100 each. I have been giving this a lot of thought to imagine the pitfalls and the biggest is the income tax on the prize. The home in this raffle is appraised at $390,000 according to the story. An accounting firm did an analysis […]

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