What you say...

I get an email of the comments people leave on the blog and I received this one today that I thought was such a good piece of quick thinking and paying attention to instincts that I'm putting it up exactly as I got it.Stand up and take a bow, dude!He was writing about klmfriends22@yahoo.comToday I was in Western union about to send the first condo payment to Nigeria when it didn't feel right...

Putting out the garbage...

This post really has nothing to do with rental scams ~ it's only that I have been rummaging through my mailboxes and cleaning out the trash.Are you like me and hate getting electronic crap mail as much as junk mail in your letterbox? I have some control over the paper mail delivered to us having placed a sticker on the mail box advising the carrier that they are not to leave 'general' junk mail.

Passing out kudos....

I think I've mentioned more than once that I have reason to be grateful for people who contribute/assist with gathering information for this site.There is one very special person, whom I call Intrepid Renter (remember Thor?), who has been an outstanding help to this blog for the last few months while I dealt with surgery, post-surgery and radiation treatments that left my brain cells tightly

Housekeeping...

If there's one thing that I've perfected as a skill, it's procrastination.Well, not all the time but it seems to be that way when it comes to writing ~ I had the same terrible habit when I was in university, often skinning my assignments in just in the nick of time to meet the deadlines. I had meant to make this post earlier this week but I shall have to succumb to the old saying, 'Better late

Some landlords are sooooo accommodating...

Ever since we crawled out of the ooze and figgered out the purpose of opposable thumbs, humans have cozied up to other critters on the planet either as a source of food and clothing, work or companionship ~ and the pet contingent tends to take their chosen species seriously.Nowadays it's hard to find a landlord who understands the human need for unrequited love provided by those creatures we

Laugh? I thought I'd die...

My roommate came downstairs late the other evening in search of a glass of milk and found me face down on my desk just howling with laughter, tears running down my face, incapable of coherent speech ~ the works!You see, I do try to educate myself about internet scams and that means looking at it from all angles so I find myself reading through blogs, websites, tons of ads, forums.... You get the

Oh, the places you can go!

You'll remember this picture from one of my previous posts (well, if you looked that far back you would...).It's back!!I've been generally just muddling around on the internet lately kinda poking hither and yon into things that interest me, including the world of cons and scams (there's lots of fascinating stuff out there but that's another story).And then I decided to wander back to the postings