As for the credit card, I just started using the AMEX Blue card which is 2% back on everything.

2 negatives here....1) not keeping your rents close to market where they should be anyway, 2) doing business in a Blue state/County where they're more likely to do crap like this....

Tim suggested in a another thread, to send all those in favor of universal health care to the blue counties.

Ultimately I want to do this to allow my brother to quit his blue collar job and do this with me full time.

It would definitely be a higher blue collar/white collar area.

Real estate is hyper local, there may be net migration out of chicago when count the south and west side but if look at blue line corridor, west loop, lakeview, rogers park, etc. its on fire and growing rapidly.

Re-painted in red, white and blue.4.

For my family of 6 I now pay Blue Cross $1300/month for personal choice.

I even painted "haint blue" around the windows and doors to keep evil spirits out, after returning from a trip to Savanah GA and the Gullah low country of South Carolina.

The bath has a nice "retro" look with a blue-and-white tile floor, white 4 x 4 standard wall tiles and light blue bullnose trim along the top.