Ask the expert: How to finance rental property
Anyone who has purchased rental property will probably tell you that the first one was the trickiest. It can be confusing trying to navigate the options…
Month: August 2021
Goodbye shiplap: Home interiors tap wallpaper
Goodbye, shiplap, hello wallpaper. And barn doors are headed back to the farm. Shiplap siding was a popular trend on interior walls for much of the past…
Should I sell my rentals in a hot market?
It has been a blazing hot real estate market lately, with a shortage of available houses for sale and new construction too pricey (think lumber prices,…
Trip alert: A unique oasis for lovers
Leave it to Dubai to surprise the world by building an Instagram-ready oasis in the middle of a desert. The city is already renowned for the tallest…
CC BY-SA 4.0 wikimedia The monkey pictured is the correct species but does not live on the Puerto Ri
Study: Monkeys handle crisis effectively A team of researchers studying rhesus macaques (monkeys) in Puerto Rico found that the primates made new social…
Ugly food: It is still good to eat
The word mindfulness is used a lot these days to remind us to think before we act, to pay attention to (and appreciate) the world around us and to slow…
Spam in your phone’s calendar?
Have you ever glanced at your phone’s calendar and seen a “reminder” to enter a sweepstakes or an invite to some event you’ve never heard of? Or…
A different kind of hygiene
During the first month of the pandemic lockdown, spam messages increased more than 20-fold. Scammers like to leverage a hot topic to spread misinformation…
A brave new world in searches?
A privacy-focused search engine called Brave Search launched in June, marking a potential competitor to the search engine behemoth Google. CNET said Brave…
Sad truth: Fake animal attack videos harm animals
Animal rescue videos are so popular and so lucrative that people are forcing animals into life-or-death situations just to make money. A monkey is saved…