Want a job where you just stay home, listen to your favorite music and eat your own food instead of restaurant food, avoid crowded public transportation, don’t have to deal with your boss and your supervisors all day long, and don’t have to worry about being fired — you are your own boss.
Of course, that means you do all the work, but on the other hand, you get all the profit, unless you bring in co-workers, and they have to get paid, too, or they can’t do that work. Continue reading
There’s some doubt about my position on the Rose Garden. Let me start by saying that you have to walk into it with eyes wide open. There’s a lot of neglect and a lot of resulting damage, but if you aren’t in it for the quick flip, you have a chance to make it work. I’ll explain in detail: Continue reading
How would you like to not have to hear me asking you for your help in paying off the land mortgage of $300,000 ever again???
Let me explain the situation: we do not presently own the land, and haven’t been able to own our own land for decades for a dumb and totally unjust rule. Banks don’t lend to nonprofits, period, and that’s across the board everywhere countrywide and maybe even worldwide, because banks don’t want the Scrooge Complex to be laid upon them; they simply don’t want to have to EVER foreclose on a church or synagogue, and that’s the whole reason, nothing to do with law or business practices, just public relations.
Because we have a very good relationship with our bank, and we’ve practiced exceptionally good management over the past 43 years, never ever missing a mortgage payment, we’re being offered a chance to actually own our own property, and without a qualified co-signer (someone earning over $200,000 a year would barely qualify). We are being considered for a loan, but we must bring some money to the table, actually $15,000 in cash, straight up.