We have stocks and index funds but they really are not where it is at for us.

If you go to your courts, you can search the court index for cases where BofA was the defendant.

He also told me that at the end of the five year term, the rate would reset to an index which would actually drop the rate quite a bit (given current conditions) and that the bank would not call the loan, but would instead just continue to service the loan at that new (lower) rate.I will call him back this week and see how my change in strategy (buying junk SFR's and junk small apartment complex's) would affect those terms.Thanks again, Bill, for your detailed response.

The probate index where I am indicates whether the petitioner is a surviving spouse.

I have some ideas of ways of filling the units in the off seasons, but I would love to hear what others are doing as well.Of course, I am always looking for interesting properties that would work into my business model, especially on Highway 2 near Index, Baring, and Skykomish.  

Look at how well the leading index predicts jobs growth and losses historically - how it always bottoms out before job losses, and what tends to happens to jobs after steep plunges in the leading index at the end of an expansionary phase.

(Wish I had done more LIBOR indexed interest only loans myself - the only one that I kept is now at 3.25%).

Update for tonight 9pm, 4 days up:Sell House Weatherford Bing: Page 1 #2 Yahoo: Page 1 #2 Google: P8 #10Sell House Granbury Bing: Page 1 #8 Yahoo: P1 #9 Google: P13 #2We Buy Houses Weatherford Bing: Page 1 #6 Yahoo: P1 #7 Google: P2 #4We Buy Houses Granbury Bing: Page 1 #2 Yahoo: P1 #2 Google: P1 #9Slowly climbing in Google, and now indexed with Yahoo Search and Bing Search.

We are mostly focusing on the importance of saving, having a high savings rate, and funding your own retirement at an early age (FIRE), but also discuss debt, stock investing (index), insurance (always a losing bet), and a few other items that kind of fall into the personal finance realm.

Until 6 months ago, I've only invested in index funds but after seeing the power of REI, I decided to get educated and jump in.