Looking for some other ideas about where to put money to place short term ($1,000 for one year, the other $1,000 for 2 yrs), basically this is money on top of my emergency fund that I'm saving for big ticket costs for either car/house.

I had a landlord once give me movie tickets after an inconvenient repair.

The expense ratio given by the seller was grossly underestimated as some of the above posters suspected...the expense ratio for the 5 years hovered around 60% including the large ticket items below...good prediction Joel and Jeff!

I hate it when I get an invite to a Webinar hoping to learn something new, and sometimes I get lucky, then I get hit by a ticket price in order to continue learning.

Usually those cases involve big ticket items.

If they lose their meal ticket, you will still get a nice property and the tax payers will have less dependents to take care of.

For some horrible reason I have decided this next year will be trying to fix up all the big ticket items that have been put off which is mainly roofs.   

At less than $2200 a year in cash flow, a new roof or similar big-ticket item could wipe out a few years' cash on cash return.

If I had gotten a ticket in TX for driving w/o a license, I would just have to show a valid license in court and it would be dismissed with minor court fees (20 bucks or so) 2 also doesn't make sense to me.

Any place for discount tickets?