There are great wineries, fresh fruit is bountiful, and beautiful lakes.

I think my first note was for $10,000@10% Then I bought some raw land at a tax deed sale for $6500.

Having multiple properties with your name on it make you super easy low hanging fruit for lawyers.

We do not carry balances on high interest cards (we may do that on zero interest cards for short time periods to smooth out cash flow (like when we bought new appliances for our house) if we have the savings to pay off the balance).We're not rolling in it Scrooge McDuck style by any means, but we are at a place now in our 40's where we are beginning to enjoy the fruits of our labor and sacrifices made in our 30's.

Raw land of course has a value.   

The teachers union and education in general often get some pretty raw deals from the legislature here.Now to real estate.  

If you're interested, the raw Case Shiller data is published monthly.I believe this data is not inflation adjusted.

I bought it in 2013 as just raw land for a little over $305k.

A lot depends on what the raw numbers are and how long his money is in use.

"Let her enjoy new appliances" isn't a satisfactory answer, either, since it's important to me that she not feel like she's getting a raw deal.Let me know your thoughts!