vicky30pa questioned:
I have a 5500 gallon simple set pool that I just place up this past month.. and money is starting to get tight for me. I was wondering if anyone has had any success with using dollar store household chlorine bleach in there pool of similar size and what it cost them. I used it in my kids pools in the past ..and yes a pool professional recomended it. Please don’t just say it will be too expensive.. I want people to answer whom have really done this to save money.

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1. Build Your Investment Like a Tank

Landlords should highly consider making a safe, quality, and strong living environment that can withstand everyday tenant abuse. Using the right materials will save time, money, and constant maintenance.

Smoke Detectors:

Not only is it required in many states and cities to install multiple smoke detectors throughout a home, but it is a very vital property protective measure as well. Solving this problem is simple, and we suggest using the First Alert 10 Year Lithium Power Cell Smoke Detector. You no longer have to worry about expensive battery replacement, as this smoke alarm has a tamper-proof design and includes a 10-yr lithium power cell. This product also comes with a mute button and allows your tenant to temporarily silence the alarm.

Paint:
Walls often encounter a fare share of wear and tear, especially if your tenant has children. To avoid nicks, scuffs, and in between tenant re-painting, we strongly recommend using a neutral color and a high quality washable paint that highlights the products durability. Eggshell is a superior end as it often contains a hint of glossy shine, shadowing small wall defects.

Carpeting:

Choosing the right color, stain protected and durable carpeting for your rental property will save you time and money in replacement costs. Installing the right pattern design is also a key suggestion, as sculpted multi-colored designs tend to hide dirt easily. This type of carpeting has a much longer life span than the inexpensive solid-colored alternative. Invest in nylon carpeting as it’s considered the most versatile fiber available and is resistant to dirt, grime, and therefore simpler to clean. Another replacement saving tip is to use thick carpet padding, ultimately insulating heat, reducing noise, and extending the life of your carpet. Our quick fix option suggests providing your tenants with a new welcome mat for those dirty shoes.

2. Place Your Prospective Tenants Under the Microscope

Avoiding the nightmare of placing a tenant that can’t pay their rent is a landlords dream. No matter how nervous you are to rent an apartment or house, make sure your future tenant thoroughly fills out a detailed rental application. Rental applications should question credit, rental and employment history as well as other key items such as providing previous rental history and references. We also recommend visiting your prospective tenant’s current residence, providing the landlord with helpful choice making insight. Landlords must use caution when selecting a tenant.

3. Successful Landlords Use Written Rental Agreements

The most vital property/tenant-proofing suggestion we offer is using a state specific written rental agreement. This contract should contain specific rules and regulations governed by your state. ezLandlordForms.com offers a top of the line customizable, state specific lease that will save you time, money, and the possible hassles involved with using a poor lease. This user friendly website tailors leases based on current state specific laws. The rental agreement you use is the foundation of your relationship with your tenant, and most importantly your properties safe guard.

4. Invest in Your Investment

Visiting your rental property from time to time is key and verifying your investment is in excellent hands brings peace of mind to a landlord. If possible we suggest landlords schedule occasional maintenance visits. You may want to include these scheduled appointments within the lease.

5. Expect the Unexpected

Hopefully, rent will come in on time and your tenants will be respectful. Unfortunately there is always that chance that situations will arise and you will be faced with the choice to evict a tenant. Be prepared! Keep the rental application, a copy of the lease, accurate bookkeeping of rents received and all notices in a single file. Learn the landlord/tenant laws for your area and keep the courthouse phone number and address handy. We also highly suggest pre-selecting a local attorney who is well versed in landlord/tenant law. Ideally, you will never have to go this route, but better to be prepared.

Pleased Renting!

By: Kevin Kiene

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There has been a lot of buzz going on about being able to convert your car on water, get best gas mileage and reduce the pollution.

This is a new system made by a savvy car owner and inventor who got fed up with paying the jacked up gas prices.

Researchers claim that our car’s engine are very poorly designed and allow us to use only 20% of the gas we pay for. The 80% of it is wasted on heat and pollution as unburned gas. If you take a gallon of gas at 3$ – only 60 cents is used by your car and 2, 40$ is wasted! Just imagine yourself paying 40 CENTS per gallon!

When people hear the phrase “Convert Your Car to run on water” they quickly back up thinking it might be very hard to do. Conversion itself is simple and could be done by you, at your home. You simply add some cables and such to your engine – everything is bolt-on. If you ever choose to take it off – it is completely untraceable.

There is not only the gas mileage increase but other benefits to it. When you use water as fuel, you make your engine run smoother and quieter; it also cleans itself and produces less heat and less pollution.

FOX recently broadcasted a video report about a car using this exact system. The fuel economy increase might go up to 75% when using this system. More and more people around the world seek an simple way save on gas, many of them do it by buying unattractive prototype cars but some choose to keep the car they like and convert the car to run on water.

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An American questioned:
If companies realy wanted to save money the would take a hard look at this question before it started destroying the economy any more than they already have by laying off the people that buy thier products.

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Tips on saving money weekly can be done easily. There are many ways to save; buy doing some of the following item.

Staying away from the rent to own places will save you money weekly and a lot when the item is paid for. If you are in a business, the computer goes out and has to be in the shop for a week, and you just can’t be without it; going to rent to own is possibly going to save your business. Let them know ahead of time it is only temporary so rent a used one not one that is new. You’d be saving money on a weekly basis because your business could lose money during that week.

Saving money at what time you visit the grocery store by going weekly instead of two or three times a week. Don’t go grocery shopping when you’re hungry because every thing will look excellent and you’ll end up buying things you don’t need.

Recycle your plastic grocery bags by using them to line your wastebasket. Why buy used liners each week for the wastebasket when you can use grocery bags that you got free when you did the shopping.

Watch the sales when shopping. Save on a weekly basis by stocking up on items that are needed when they are on sale this will save you weekly as well as monthly.

Driving into town once or twice, a week instead of three or four times will save you money. Making a list of things that need to be done; and do more than one thing while you’re in town. Go to the doctor, grocery store or pay bills all on the same day instead of making three trips you’re only making one. You’ll be saving money for gas, the wear on the car as well as time.

Laundry can be very expensive when making a trip to the laundry mat each week. Check out the used appliance stores in your area, buy a washer, and dry even if you have to pay $50.00 a month for 6 months. You’ll be saving by not spending $25.00 to $30.00 a week depending on the size of your family versus $50.00 a month. Having your own washer and dryer can save you gasoline, time, and money when you only have enough cloth to fill half a washer or dryer.

Saving money at home on a weekly basis at what time, you are doing the laundry by doing a full load at a time instead of one or two items. You’ll save here on laundry soap, fabric softener and energy doing a full load of cloths instead on a half a load.

Recycling your used fabric sheets after drying your cloths is a way to save money weekly. Place them into a baggie and use those to dust with saving you the expense of buy furniture polish every week or two. They can also be used to clean soap scum from the shower doors too.

If you have, access to a dishwasher saves by using it once a day or three times a week. Don’t run the dishwasher with just a few items make sure it is full. Dishwashers use less water too versus doing dishes by hand two or three times a day. Doing one full load once a day will save you on dish soap and water:

Save money on a weekly basis by drinking water instead of pop. Don’t buy your water get a water purifier to attach to the kitchen fasuet or a pitcher to run your drinking through. This will save you money not having to buy your water and is better for your health.

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Going to Australia for a vacation is certainly an brilliant choice, as it will surely be an fascinating trip. But, just getting a tourist visa will likely get take a excellent chunk off you wallet. This means only one thing, you will have less money to spend during your actual vacation.

But that doesn’t mean that you won’t be able to delight in your stay in the country. In fact, even with a small budget, you will certainly be able to make the most out of your Australian vacation. All you need is a small bit of money management to make the most out of your budget, here are some tips that you can use during your trip.

First of all, there are the transportation cost. One way to cut down your spending is to ditch the car rental altogether. After all, you will be staying in the country in at most a month. You can just take the public transportation, when traveling. You will find soon enough that the fare is really way smaller than the price that you will need to pay for fuel for the same trip. This will also give you an opportunity to go sight seeing at your own leisure. For small distances, it would be better you just take a walk, this will also be a excellent exercise.

Another thing that you can do is to really map out your route when traveling. This will lower the cost since you will be able to use the simplest way to go to a place. With a road map in hand (essential for any tourist) and a few tips locals, you will surely get to where you want to go.

Another thing you need to worry about is accommodations. But luckily, you will be able to find affordable accommodations in any city in Australia. If you are going in a vacation package, then this will be no problem, since everything is already paid for. In case you are not on a package, here’s a useful tip: hotel rates are much cheaper in the suburbs than in the major hotels in the city. And these don’t have an inferior service either. Another useful tip is to choose a hotel that is near restaurants and malls for simpler access.

During your stay in the hotel, you can still cut down costs by not calling up too many room services. Even if you are on a package, additional services are likely to incur extra charges. If you are really that hungry, you can simply get out of the hotel and eat at a nearby food joint, which is likely to e priced lower than room service.

And of course, what is a vacation without sightseeing. Depending on the city that you are in, you can either ride a tour bus for free or for a minimal fee. Also, instead of going for the high class (and high priced) places frequently visited by other tourists, you can explore Australia more by really looking for cheaper tourist destinations. And you will find that this is really very fun.

By following these tips, you will certainly save a lot on your travel money. You then be able to buy more souvenirs for people back home.

By: Chester Cool

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MalDeeh questioned:
I use lots of money without even thinking. So what are some simple, simple, possible ways to save money? I am male and 13 by the way.

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Believe it or not, there are a number of records management techniques capable of saving your company money. Every company produces a seemingly endless supply of documents. Not only do these records take up valuable office space, they also require proper care, protection, and management. Furthermore, failing to ensure the protection of documents can lead to even larger costs – fraud, theft, and even legal distress. Let us take a look at three common records management services, and the ways they can help your business cut costs.

Savings with Off-site document storage.

Storing documents yourself can be costly. For small firms, this usually amounts to a stack of boxes in the office containing all sorts of records. These files take up valuable real estate. Instead, consider storing your records in a secure, off-site records storage facility. The task of storing large amounts of documents yourself can be daunting, and expensive. Document storage facilities offer simple solutions, and are often much cheaper than managing your own storage space. Many facilities are equipped to handle your other valuables as well.

Loss prevention through Certified Destruction

For many businesses, the majority of the paperwork made is meant only for small-term use. Bills, invoices, and company memos can all be described as having small document life cycles. While they only need to be retained for a few days, these documents often contain sensitive financial and other information. Should these documents ever fall into the incorrect hands, the consequences could be disastrous. With certified record destruction, your records management firm will typically provide your office secure bins to dispose of sensitive papers. Simply fill them up, then call your records management firm to have them replaced. This way, your papers are guaranteed to be ruined. While certified destruction does have some up-front costs, these costs are outweighed by the long-term benefits of minimizing loss due to fraud and theft.

Reduce storage and administrative expenses with document scanning

Scanning documents can save your company money in two ways. First, scanning documents greatly reduces their physical size, allowing your company to save on storage space. Electronic files can last forever, and document scanning is an brilliant option for archival records. The savings from document scanning can amount to quite a bit for records with a long document life cycle. More importantly, scanned documents are much simpler to manage, which saves your company money by reducing administrative costs. Searching for a file on a computer, after all, takes just a few seconds, compared to the minutes or hours necessary to track down a paper file in storage. Remember, “time is money”; accessibility saves time.

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Today’s frugal living tip doesn’t deal with one particular method of saving money. Instead I want to introduce a strategy you can use to help control your overall spending habits.

It’s a simple concept really. The first step is to get yourself a pocket-sized notepad and pencil, and, beginning today, record every penny you spend and where you spent it. Whether it is your mortgage payment, or a quarter dropped in a gumball machine, write it down! Though admittedly somewhat tedious, if you give this strategy a try, I reckon you will find the small inconvenience will be heavily outweighed by what you learn about just where your money goes. At the end of the day, transfer the data you’ve gathered to a spreadsheet to allow for simpler record keeping over a long period of time.

The benefits of this record keeping are myriad:

First and foremost it acts as an impulse check. That chocolate bar that costs “just a dollar” will seem less necessary when you are forced to pull out your pencil and paper and record the buy.

Secondly, it can act as a pie chart for your spending habits. If you want to know how much of your money is going to wants and how much to needs you only have to look back through your spreadsheet and see just how much money you’ve been allotting to each category.

Thirdly, and this is where I find this technique most valuable, it allows you to compete against yourself by providing you with a month by month history of your overall dollar spending. What do I mean by compete against yourself? Well, let’s say at the end of this month you tally up all the buys you made and bills you paid. Your total spending for the month is $3430. Considering you have a mortgage payment in there, and a car payment, along with all your other utility bills etc. that’s not too terrible, right? But can you do better? This is where the competition comes in. Suddenly, with the numbers there in front of you, you’ll have a concrete target that you can shoot for when it comes to lowering your spending. That chocolate bar that was “just a dollar” and was an inconvenience to write down, now has a double impulse check applied to it. Now, every dollar you spend brings you closer to that limit that you promised yourself you weren’t going to exceed. You’ll find yourself really scrutinizing every buy, and you’ll find that the line between wants and needs is now a much more clearly defined gap.

This self competition doesn’t just need to apply on a month to month basis. Because of certain seasonal costs that are beyond your control, it is going to be pretty hard to spend the same or less each month than the one before. For instance, most people will find it pretty challenging to spend less in December than they did in November (unless you do your Christmas shopping earlier than I do). Because of this monthly spending difference, sometimes a fairer comparison will be to take your spending from the previous December and try to undercut that target. Even if you can only match it, you will have at least cut your spending by the equivalent of inflation. Whether you compete against yourself on a monthly or yearly basis is up to you. Just remember that these seasonal inequities exist, and don’t give up on the program just because you fail to meet your goal in a given month.

This competition also has the added benefit of making us more creative in our saving practices. Want to beat last August’s $2915? Take the insurance of the car, and bike to work that month. Not only will you save a month’s cost of auto insurance, you’ll also save gas. With that $150 head start beating your target should be simple. What can you come up with in September to continue that trend. By forcing yourself to reckon outside the box, you’ll be amazed at what wacky thoughts you can come up with to save a few dollars.

Want to place a leash on your spending habits? This is a fantastic way to do it. Grab yourself a notepad and get started today. If you don’t already have a notepad, you don’t have to record the buy of one. That’s your one and only freebie Have fun with it, and be creative. You’ll find that you’re spending more than you reckon, but with this simple valuable tool you’ll soon be saving more than you ever thought you could.

By: Dennis Lindsay

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Gerald Munar questioned:
Though I’m still young, i wanted to start saving money for me and my family’s future. I wanted to save it to some financial institution that I can trust or a Bank that offers high interest rate.