You get the perfect baby clothes, the perfect diapers, research and buy the perfect food, videotape every second of the baby's life.By the third or the fourth, you're just lucky no one has stepped on him/her and the baby is at least partially clothed and is getting food and water.

I have the town send me a duplicate bill each quarter just so I can keep watch on the balance.  

We started last year with houses and we are now on our fourth house.  

Regulation vs the Fourth Anendment.

thank you BenThank you JohnRegarding self-employment over a w-2 jobWhen I was just out of the Marine Corps and I had this job at Johnson Controls engineering firm because I was a science major, had a lot of calculus physics and chemistryMy job was to sell to developers and builders That wanted air and water  control devices and I was on straight commission basicallyI had like $20,000 in commissions that they  didn't pay me for I got really upset and at 25 yrs of age I didn't have very much EQ, and my emotions got the best me I basically even went to a lawyer and asked  how can I get my 20,000 in commissions here's the proof they owe me the moneyMy lawyer says it's gonna cost you 10,000 in legal fees to sue them at a minimum he's going to need that upfront as a retainerAnd then there was no guarantees I would get the 20 kThat's why I made the commitment at 25 never ever ever be a W-2 employee and I work as a 1099 alwaysThen I found a real estate 60-year-old mentor who taught me everything from distressed property to foreclosures to divorce to bankruptcy to probateI work for five hundred a week for 2 and a half years and then opened up my own business and did approximately 28 seller interviews a weekMy closing ratio in the beginning wasn't very good because I sucked at itBut with the good coaching from my teacher I got better and better and betterI quit after 2 1/2 years and started my own company on a shoestring it wasn't easyBut I made over hundred thousand dollars my first year if it wasn't for the teacher I would not know how to run a business and I would not know how to hire people and I would not know how to market and I would not know how to negotiateAnd you never stop learning because I made a Ton of money I was 29 and I made over 1 million and a quarter I rolled it back into the company which was a mistakeBut live and learn!

Five years later, a national drugstore chain wanted to build a store on a quarter-block area that included our smallish lot. 

In my personal home, we eventually got a quarterly bug spray from Terminix (originally for an ant problem, but it took care of both).  

I will be in town for the fest this weekend and wouldn't mind hearing about the rental market in the warehouse, quarter and Marigny areas.

(They should perform at least a quarterly inspection.)9.How do you handle capital improvements?

Working on a fourth as we speak.