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I really can’t hardly believe it’s been almost nine months since we bought our rental property. Between the purchasing, the cleaning up, taking photos, advertising the apartments, searching for, denying and approving prospective tenants, and collecting a few months’ rent, it’s been a load of new experiences. It feels like much more time has passed … Read more
Dashing off a quick and unexpected entry today. Suddenly, we are interested in buying a rental property! A little background. I have been bouncing around the idea of buying a rental property ever since we bought our house in 2008. Since then, I’ve probably bought four Rental Properties for Dummies-type books on the subject. On … Read more
For newcomers, hello! We’re Norm and Marge. We’re thirty-somethings who are using frugality to fast track our way to early retirement. Our rental property is just one part of the plan. If you’re interested, read elsewhere on the blog about how we max out our retirement accounts and keep our expenses low by analyzing every … Read more
Can you believe it? It’s been two years now since we bought our rental property! In 2015, we had been maxing out our retirement accounts and looking for a new type of investment. Going by all the early retirement blogs I was reading, it seemed like the next step was adding rental property to our … Read more
If you remember the first time I introduced you to America’s Least Favorite Corporation and our cable provider, Time Warner Cable, we were trying to figure out how to reduce our entertainment bill while not cutting into our tv viewing options. For six years, we’ve had a basic cable subscription, plus Netflix and Hulu, and … Read more
Man oh man, welcome to The Cheapskate Analysis, something that may or may not become a recurring series here on Ridinkulous. Here I hope to use the power of maths to find the cheapest option where previously only anecdotes and mystery was found. And then decide whether it’s worth it to be a cheapskate. It’s … Read more
I try not to be a packrat. I was raised in a pretty orderly, neat house. Everything had a place. Nothing was left on tables or countertops. My mom kept the house so that there were were enough personal affects and decorations around that you wouldn’t mistake it for a hotel, but it definitely came close. … Read more
The corporation that hates its consumers the most, Time Warner Cable, is sticking it to us again. I kind of fell into a Time Warner rant earlier this month, but today it’s all about TWC. (This one is going to be vitriolic, so I hope you like the taste of vinegar) Time Warner got hell … Read more
Completist readers of Ridinkulous will remember when I dashed off an entry about a rental property we were suddenly going to see the next day. So I’d thought I should give you an update on that and where we are now. That rental property wasn’t a complete bust, but we decided it wasn’t for us. … Read more
Just a quick update here on how our rental property is doing. The last time we checked in, we were basically running a $10,000 loss! This was our first seven months owning the property, and I blamed the loss on the start-up maintenance to get the house in tip-top shape, the heating bills for the … Read more