Did you know that accessing your FICO score can be as simple as having a Costco Anywhere Visa Card from Citi credit card account? A few years ago, in 2016, Costco changed from only accepting American Express credit cards (in addition to cash and debit card payments) to having an exclusive deal with Visa. Soon…
As a parent, I often look for opportunities to convey to my kids some of the things I’ve learned from my own life experiences. Sometimes the perfect moment arises in the natural of the flow of a conversation, and I’m able to capitalize on a chance to illustrate and instruct in a way that is…
What if all people were honest? What if we could all trust that when a person gives his or her word to us, we didn’t have to worry about whether that person truly meant what was said? What if when we hired someone to do a job, when we conducted a transaction, when we loan…
Normally, when someone purchases a home in Utah, the transaction is initiated using a real estate purchase contract, or REPC. In the majority of home purchases, the home is already constructed and is usually being lived in. The standard REPC document is designed to facilitate the buyer’s offer to purchase, the seller’s acceptance, and several…
Recently at a music competition two of my kids were participating in, I was chatting with one of the organizers about my family’s busy Saturday going between sports activities (including two basketball games and a baseball practice for two of my boys) and music oriented items on our calendar, which involved a practice for an…
Wix is a popular, relatively new platform for creating a website and publishing content on the internet. If you’ve spent any time on YouTube recently, chances are you’ve seen the Wix ads showing you how easy it is to build a website using the Wix hosted website builder. While it’s true that Wix is simple,…
Several years ago I had a conversation with a relative of mine who was considering a new hobby for his young son after the boy decided that he didn’t like wrestling. Having learned to play the piano in my early adult years, I volunteered to give the kid a few piano lessons and give him…
The past decade has seen a mad rush “to the cloud”, as performance requirements (speed and availability) for apps, websites, and other technology have increased. For me, it seems like I’ve been looking for a solid place to host my websites for as long as I’ve been building them, as far back as 2000, when…
My excitement at buying an investment property ran into a snag one morning when I attempted to send over a wire to pay for the property. Chase bank places has a limit on how much can be wired from a personal account. As any investor knows, when closing day comes, having the funds available to…
Several years ago while I was building my first internet business (an online drop-shipping sporting goods store called RobbinsSports.com), I was always on the lookout for tips and advice about how to market my business. I soaked up everything I could about link building, content writing, and other aspects of how to get traffic from…