The only compelling reason to keep it is to preserve your credit, but the practical reality is your FICO score will be compromised (not destroyed) for at least two years.Face the music on the tax due for phantom income via 1099, square your shoulders and keep investing--this time with more insight gained from this experience.

Next Monday could be that day...Cue dramatic music......

I sure am not a country music fan - but I am a veteran and a patriot.

I thought of you while watching a musical number right in the middle of it involving some university professors.

What a rush being in front of all those people receiving all those accolades.

I also love Rockin-Blues music,Salmon fishin, and Educated Persistence.

Then some punk teen blarring their car music really loud as they got home, only to go inside and crank the stereo so loud that I could here it from sever doors down.

Thanks for the welcome....I sell all sorts of home gadgets the best thing Ive put into a home yet is called Sonos....Incredible home music server system thats inexpensive and allows the homeowner to play 2million songs from the rhapsody server..My dad and I have an office building in San Bernidino, Ca.

There's nothing wrong with this, not everybody enjoys sports, music, etc..

When I was a kid, I would fix and flip music gear so I could get the stuff I wanted.