Tony Brewer

Today making a move is still a major chore, all the decisions that have to be made and then all of the wrapping and packing and cleaning that is involved, these all can be very traumatic for all concerned. An exciting time indeed, but still a whole heck of lot of work to make it all happen.

At least now finding Movers are a bit easier, thanks to the Internet. You can look up Moving Companies and see what they are all about and what they have to offer. Much better than using the old paper version of your local yellow pages and calling around getting Moving Quotes and seeing what type of specific Moving Services that they have to offer you. Imagine how difficult it would have been back in the day organize International Movers without a computer!

The World Wide Web has brought the world right to our finger tips and I don’t know what we will do without it these days. I know most people don’t even use their local white and yellow pages anymore. I can only hope that when they receive them that they have the sense to recycle them and not just throw them in the trash that will ultimately end up in an already over flowing landfill.

Guest Post By My Niece Jennifer McDaniel

I just heard that my apartment complex is finally going to cough up the money to have some nice new florence mailboxes installed that will replace one of the world’s worst excuse of cluster mailboxes that we tenants have been having to deal with all this time. Mailboxes are supposed to be a safe and secure way to receive your mail, but our current mail boxes have been lacking in that area, big time.

It seems that a group of neighborhood heathens have nothing better to do, at the first of the month, then to break into our mailboxes in search of what ever they can get their hands on. So it’s high time that some action is being taken in order to protect privacy and word is that these auth florence mailboxes are top notch.

Residential Mailboxes are also a target for a lot of recent identity thefts. Times are a lot different from the time that mailboxes just got beaten or blown up for kicks by rowdy kids. Now it’s all about the money, not so much as the money that it takes to replace the damaged mail box.

I really gets me uptight when I go to visit my kid sister at the apartment complex that she is currently living at for a variety of reasons. Their landlord is one of the well known slumlords of that particular area and he prays on people that don’t know their rights as a renter. There are so many violations that are so obvious, like the Cluster Mailboxes that are in dire need of replacing. These sorry looking Apartment Mailboxes have seen better days many many moons ago, it is such an eye soar to see how broken they are and it concerns me that these people are being prime targets for identity theft since their personal mail is not being kept safe and secure for them. So many times I’ve entered the building only to find a good amount of mail scattered all over the floor and the steps. It just makes me sick to my stomach.

There are plenty of affordable Commercial Mailboxes that could be purchased and used to replace these sorry excuses for mailboxes. It may take a visit from me at some point to the rental office, but my sis is freaking out since they are no longer on a yearly lease, right now it is month to month and she doesn’t want to make any waves that could cause her to be evicted.

Did you know that anyone can go to Freeforeclosureblog.com and find all kinds interesting and free information on Real Estate Owned Foreclosures or REO Foreclosures as they are referred to these days. There are so many losing their homes due to foreclosures and many other people taking advantage of the low prices that these lost homes are selling for and buying them up and turning them over for major profits. Sites like this one helps folks with Free Foreclosures and all that goes along with this process.

So with that said if you are looking for Free REO foreclosures or know someone who is looking, I would certainly recommend taking a look at what this site has to offer, for free mind you. It doesn’t look like the economy is going to turn around any time soon and now is the time to buy. I hate the fact that people are profiting from other people’s loses in these extremely hard times, but I guess that has become “The American Way” chasing that all mighty $$$.

I like listening to my aunt tell me stories about her life.  She’s only in her mid-fifties, but she has some good stories to tell nonetheless.  Like the time that she and a group of friends decided to “TP” a neighbor’s house and unbeknownst to them all her parents watched the whole thing!

One of her stories has to do with moving 800 miles on her own.  She used to work for a company that allowed transfers from state to state.  She was single and had a pet dog.  She had determined that she wanted to move from Virginia to Maine because she had gone on a skiing vacation with her boy friend and decided she liked Maine enough to move there in search of being able to ski more often.  Her boyfriend had relatives in Maine and thought he would be fun to move there with her.  So she put in a transfer request.

A week before the transfer request was granted her boyfriend broke up with her!  But she went to Maine without him, not knowing a single soul.  Fortunately she had been given the name of the Maine Senator’s field representative to call and ask for help with the move.  That woman was so nice; she invited my aunt to stay with her while she found a place to live! So my aunt recruited her brother (my uncle) to help with a a U-Haul and they drove from Virginia to Maine. They met up with the field representative and spent the night. The next morning the field representative took them to her office and then sent one of her assistants to take her looking for apartments for rent. It was a real challenge; especially since no one wanted to rent to a single girl with a dog!

But believe it or not, by the end of the day they had found the perfect place! The next day she moved in and paid for an airplane ticket for her brother to fly back home. My aunt stayed in Maine for 29 years after that, but that is a another story!