The fact is that he waited until right before he announced that he was running for President to pay these: google "Obama parking tickets"According to the Boston Globe:Obama received 17 parking tickets in Cambridge between 1988 and 1991, according to the city's Traffic, Parking & Transportation Department.Of those tickets, he paid only two while he was a student and paid them late, said Susan Clippinger, the office's director.What are our thoughts on that?

Well, the problem with gold that would help in that situation is transport, storage and security from theft or seizure.BTW, if you really do think we are on the verge of collapse and want to dump your assets ...

If you want to go somewhere or "hang out" with friends, you had three choices...public transportation, walk, or (by far the most popular) ride a bike.Some places in South America also have extremely high gas prices.

Some other ways to make money on your rental properties:-coin laundry in the basement or each unit-offer Internet service for a fee; while water, cable, phone, electric are all regulated and you cannot sell at a profit to your tenants, Internet service is still unregulated.

The access is terrible, there are virtually no skill jobs there and I heard the public transportation still has 4 legs there.

They are standard plants with good transportation.

The last time they just qualified you on property alone was in the days when people used horses for transportation.

The value of the Section 8 voucher counts towards our income requirements, so does the value of food stamps and other non-monetary benefits that aid in covering the cost of food, shelter, clothing, transportation, medical care.About the tenant who was struggling with paying the $25 or just paying it late...

The banks were screaming bloody murder when unregulated mortgage brokers hit the streets and it took about a decade just to have a broker get a license, now, the broker is held to almost the same banking standards in may respects, so that is a big plus for banks to get these small brokers off the streets, for most folks it means if they need a loan they'll have to head to the bank.Scruggs and other seller financing gurus brought much of these new requirements on seller financed deals, if there hadn't been scammers with the rinse and repeat set ups seller financing probably wouldn't have gotten hammered as it did.

It is close to the interstate and public transportation.