It may be tempting to hang on to your home while the real estate market recovers, but chances are, the market will then be flooded with eager homeowners who want to sell. You can still sell your home despite the current marketing conditions: all it takes is a little creativity, some clever strategies – [...]
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Sat, August 30 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, Real Estate » No Comments
Recently Newsweek canducted a poll of the nations best high schools. Many of Boise’s high schools did very well this year. In the past, Boise High and Timberline have ranked well. This year Borah is added to the list of top high schools in the nation.
The poll ranked the top 1,300 schools in the nationally [...]
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Thu, August 28 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, News » No Comments
Had an interesting day today… Met Congressman Simpson and I guess I hoped for something positive but I am very disappointed. Sure he supports much of the agriculture and the interests of many US farmers but what about everything else? Actually, it isnt’ all his fault but he freely admits that Congress is reacting to [...]
Tags: foreclosure crisis, politics, social security
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Tue, August 26 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, Ramblings » No Comments
Minding my own business publishing my next edition of In My Opinion, which happens to be Home Maintenance Tips for Late Summer, I find myself in the middle of what appears to be an awesome amount of smoke. What is going on you might ask… Well it appears that there is a significant brush fire [...]
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Mon, August 25 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, News, Outdoors, Real Estate » No Comments
Okay… I guess it is a good thing the fair only comes once a year. I definitely better blog about it so I am better informed next year. Even though the entertainment is getting better over the years I had forgotten just how expensive it is. The $7 to get in I can handle but [...]
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Sun, August 24 2008 » Activities, Boise, Idaho Blog » No Comments
Ever since I can remember the Western Idaho Fair comes to town and is held at the fairgrounds in Garden City. What the fair lacks in exciting rides it makes up for in good, wholesome, fried food. It is easy to want to go from food vendor to food vendor sampling what is [...]
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Thu, August 21 2008 » Activities, Boise, Idaho Blog » No Comments
I tend to try and stay out of controversy as much as I can, life is interesting enough without adding more, but every now and then I come across something that really gets to me. This time it has to do with the California courts taking on gay medical rights. We are not [...]
Tags: aids, gay rights, hiv, spiritual beliefs
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Wed, August 20 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, News, Ramblings » No Comments
In My Opinion has justed released the 8/15 edition which is a great resource for first-time homebuyers looking to avoid making the same mistakes millions of others have made recently which have lead to the subprime fallout and a record numbers of foreclosures throughout the US. Read more on the Worst Mortgage Mistakes and How [...]
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Sun, August 17 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, Real Estate » No Comments
Reading through “Best Life” Magazine the above headline caught my attention. Being a single father I am faced with not only providing for my child but trying to figure out what a 3 year old girl requires while providing her a safe environment to thrive. So looking at the best cities to raise a family, [...]
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Fri, August 15 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, Ramblings » No Comments
I have been working in the sugar industry for the past 4-years and I have seen sugar take quite a beating. In competition with artificial sweeteners and high-fructose corn syrup sugar sometimes gets a bad wrap. However, things appear to be looking better for sugar even though this coming year may bring a shortage but [...]
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Wed, August 13 2008 » Boise, Idaho Blog, Ramblings » No Comments