Mortgage Accelerators

July 18, 2009 by · 2 Comments 

Ever considered why you should consider using a pay off mortgage accelerator for a debt free lifestyle? By using a mortgage accelerator, a homeowner can stay ahead because the debt in the mortgage will shrink much faster and the value of the home will not likely go down as fast as the equity build up. This type of program works without making additional payments toward the mortgage.

In recent times, mortgage accelerators have become very popular in different countries such as Australia, UK, Canada, and now in the US. By reducing the balance in your mortgage, you save money on the daily calculated interest that you’re charge by your lender. In other words, the way your mortgage is structure greatly favors banks because almost all of your initial monthly payments go toward paying the interest portion and very little towards the principal.

Many homeowner continually pay thousands of dollars in unnecessary interest charges every single year with the mindset that you can always write off the interest and get some of that money back at the end of the year-in a tax return. Why have my money sitting in a checking account earning zero percent interest or in a savings account earning 1% when debt is being accrued at 7%. There is no “safe” investing that is going to bring a higher return on your money than you will be paying in interest.

The better alternative is using other people’s money (the bank’s money) is one of the surest and fastest ways to become financially independent. The faster you pay off your mortgage, the sooner you will be able to save enough money and build your retirement nest. You can use the money you won’t have to pay to the bank in more useful ways: pay for your retirement pension, pay for your children college education, etc.

Using mortgage acceleration as a strategy for debt reduction/wealth building is the only way most people are ever going to be able to retire. They would not only increase their rate of wealth accumulation, they would lower the risk involved, and be very happy to reap the tax advantages provided by the mortgage interest.

Most millionaires will tell you they made their money by using the bank’s money to obtain greater wealth. By using a mortgage accelerator, a homeowner can stay ahead because the debt in the mortgage will shrink much faster and the value of the home will not likely go down as fast as the equity build up. The Pay Off Mortgage Accelerator will reveal the critical element of how fast you can pay off your mortgage, how to keep tens of thousands of dollars for yourself without paying extra or refinancing your current home loan.

One of the top contenders in this field is The Money Merge Account,a unique proprietary program designed to cancel thousands of dollars in interest you would of normally paid on your existing mortgage allowing you to pay off your home, free and clear, in as little as 8-11 years. The Money Merge Account is not a bi-weekly payment or debt roll-down system.

This program is offered by United First Financial or UFirst. The United First Financial program is focused on paying off the home faster and eliminating that debt all together. The MMA also allows you to figure in monthly withdrawals to any investment you would like so you would NOT miss any investment opportunity while you are accelerating your mortgage at the same time. The MMA empowers the consumer to take control of their money, for perhaps the first time in their lives.

In the months and years ahead we will begin to see banks offering similar products or forming relationships with companies that offer MMA’s. If you would like to help save other homeowners on their mortgage and would like learn how you can become an MMA consultant, please don’t hesitate to contact me at Johnny@StrategicMath.com

Short Review of Garmin 255W Portable GPS Navigator

May 21, 2009 by · 5 Comments 

Are you looking for a great car GPS system? You have found exactly what you need right here. The Garmin 255W is a great system with many features. It’s more than just a GPS unit; it will be your true friend.

Garmin has a high reputation for being a great navigation system. When you buy a Garmin, you know that you are not just buying junk. You are buying something good and something that is going to last for a long time to come. When you get a GPS system, you want something that will last a long time. This is why Garmin is your best choice.

The Garmin Nuvi 255w features a 4.3″ widescreen display for easy viewing. The screen has three dimensional views so you can view the screen very comfortably. This unit comes preloaded with plenty street maps for the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. This way you can be provided with custom details with your points of interest.

You can select base on shortest distance in miles or time to set up for your destination. Garmin Nuvi 255w will then give you step by step voice direction. If you dislike this voice feature, you can always turn it off. It does help when driving so you don’t ever have to take your eyes off the road. It also informs you what time you will get to your destination. When driving, you can create different Poi’s. This GPS navigation system can tell you where ATM’s, hotels, restaurants and many more items like this are on the way to your pre-selected destination. There are over 6 million different Poi’s preloaded in this unit.

Garmin Nuvi 255w has a lot of internal memory and as an added bonus offers you an SD card slot so you can add more memory if needed. You will need memory when you hook it up to your computer so you can update your system with different maps, and you can add different accessories to it, such as different driving icons.

If you like to go hiking or anything of that nature then you will still love this GPS system. It’s completely portable so you can carry it right along with you. With its lithium ion battery, it will last 4 hours without being recharged. It is definitely a highlight because most of the GPS units do not last that long.

For in depth information on Garmin Nuvi 255W 4.3-Inch Widescreen Portable GPS Navigator, reviews and best prices visit Garmin 225w review.

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Banff Alberta Hotels

February 20, 2009 by · 5 Comments 

If you are planning a trip to the Canadian Rockies you will find there is a large selection of Banff Hotels. In the Canadian Rockies there are several rustic back country lodges where one can get in touch with nature, being that many of these lodges don’t have running water or electricity. Young travelers will find plenty of hostels to choose from in Banff that are fine if you don’t mind shared bathroom facilities.

You will also find the standard roadside motels that are quite common along long stretches of highway in the US. Small bed and breakfasts can be found in the city as well as in the surrounding area. One can also find larger Banff Hotels that offer luxurious resort hotels with lots of first class conveniences. The historic mountain resorts will give visitors a taste of old Canada prior to modernization.

For travelers whose focus is on outdoor activities many of the larger resort hotels offer horseback riding lessons, tennis courts, swimming pools, hot tubs, golf courses, boat rentals, business centers, fine dining and guided hike tours within the national park. Most other resorts and hotels offer few amenities and prefer to remain without the modern conveniences in the hotel rooms.

It’s hardest to find a hotel in Banff AB between the months of June to September so make your hotel reservations well in advance. Banff is also a popular travel destination over the Christmas and New Years holiday season. During the winter ski season many hotels pack out with visitors who are eager to ski on the many slopes the surrounding mountain areas have to offer.

Is It Best To heat your crawl space or insulate it?

February 13, 2009 by · 7 Comments 

We’ve had a number of extremely frigid nights in the northeastern US and Canada the last few weeks. Those of us who have a crawl space vapor under our home won’t be surprised to feel cold floors underfoot and cold air on our ankles.

You might guess that placing a space heater under your living areas will cut the drafts and cold. But it turns out that properly sealing and insulating your crawl space will not only address your indoor problems with cold, drafty floors, it will also prevent problems such as mildew and rot in the crawl space itself, and will improve the health of your home overall.

First, let’s clear up a common error about the air flows in a crawl space. For many years, homeowners, builders, and building inspectors have believed that a crawl space needs to have exterior openings on opposite walls, so that air can flow from one vent to the other, drawing out any excess humidity from the enclosed crawl space. But the most recent research shows that vents in a crawl space create a very different effect, known as the stack effect.

Basically, with a good supply of outside air coming from your crawl space, all it takes is a few cracks or hair’s width openings between the crawl space and the upstairs, and a few drafts at the top of the house, such as old windows or cracks in the upstairs ceiling, and your house starts acting like a giant chimney stack. Hot air rises, so the warm, heated air inside your house works its way out the top openings, drawing cold outdoor air up from the crawl space.

As a result, the humidity and cold crawl space mold and dust from the crawl space get sucked into your home, increasing your heating costs and risking your well being. Ironically, the better you ventilate your crawl space, the more heat gets drawn out of your home through upstairs cracks. What You will need is vapor barrier crawl space.

Even in summer time, when there is no stack effect from a crawl space, ventilating both ends of the crawl space doesn’t actually do much to solve problems of airflow or dampness. There is no effect of rising heat to draw the air through the vents, if they are both at the same level. And this approach basically amounts to addressing the symptoms and not very well at that instead of curing the illness. The illness, in this case, is excessive moisture and air entering the crawl space, and excess transfer of heat during colder months between the crawl space and the outdoors.

You may find that your builder scoffs at the idea of insulating and sealing a crawl space. It defies conventional wisdom and it also breaks many municipal building codes that were developed from that conventional wisdom. But you’ll improve your indoor air quality, cut heat loss, and resolve any problems with humidity, mold, or rotting wood down below, if you set conventional wisdom aside and do what the research shows is most effective.

To properly seal and insulate your crawl space, begin by getting rid of any sharp objects such as old nails, broken glass, or sharp pebbles from the floor of the crawl space, so you don’t hurt your hands or knees as you work (why did you think it was called a crawl space, anyway?). Also, you’ll be installing a plastic vapor barrier on the floor and you don’t want any sharp objects to pierce through the liner and cut it as you are installing it.

Purchase a liner made specifically for the task – or buy a suitable, thick polyethylene plastic. You’ll need thicker than the 6 mil usually used for a vapor barrier – you need to go to 15 or 20 mil thickness if you want a liner that will last. The liner should be big enough to cover the entire floor as well as the walls – preferably without cutting extra pieces for the walls. The best way to figure out the size is to add twice the wall height to both the width and length of the floor, and then add 10% extra to account for slopes. So if you have walls two feet high around the crawl space and a 15 x 20 foot space, you’ll need a 21 x 29 foot liner. It’s better to waste a little extra liner than to find yourself having to cut and tape on small pieces when you find out you didn’t buy enough!

Seal any ventilation openings, and for crawl space windows, either replace them with energy efficient ones, or at least ensure that they are not cracked or drafty. You may want to cut out rectangular pieces of foam insulation to fill in the window areas, as this will add an extra level of insulation to windows as well as cut down on drafts. Also check that any doors to the outside are also well weatherstripped.

If part or all of the walls are wood framed, place batt insulation between the studs; for masonry walls, use foam board. Be sure that any large openings in the walls are patched first wherever you can see sunlight shining in from the outside.

Place the poly over the floor of the crawl space, and up the walls. Trim the excess folded triangular pieces off where the wall corners meet. Staple the vapor barrier to the studs, and seal all staple holes and any cuts or tears in the barrier with mastic tape.

Don’t skip part of this job. If you seal the vents without installing the liner, or you put in the liner without insulating, you will run into trouble later on. And do it all within a couple of weeks – don’t make this one of those home renovations that drags on for months or years. Just get it done!

Once you have well sealed and insulated your crawl space, you should find your home much more comfortable in winter. Your floors will be warmer and less drafty, and your home will be safe from the ill impacts of crawl space mold and mildew. In fact, so will the crawl space itself.

And remember the idea we started with, that a crawl space heater might cut the cold on your floors during this cold spell? Well, if you follow the advice above, you’ll have no need for such a heater. We sealed the crawl space beneath our kitchen extension a while back, and the room became so much more comfortable, we were able to remove the baseboard heaters that had been added to the kitchen extension when it was built.

Instant Article Wizard Pro – A powerful tool for creating articles fast.

January 21, 2009 by · 4 Comments 

The creators of Instant Article Wizard pro have developed a complex algorithm that extracts relevant pieces of research from a large variety of online indexes based on keywords you provide. That research is grouped and organized using this algorithm in a way that puts related research together. This makes writing your articles much, much faster and easier than trying to go out and do the research yourself.

IAW Pro currently supports searching Google, Yahoo, MSN Live, Google Blog Search, Articles, Google’s US Government index, Google Scholar, Google News and Google News Archives. Having multiple sources for gathering research makes it much easier to compile relevant, authoratative information to help you write top quality articles fast.

Instant Article Wizard Pro has a random factor in the algorithm that prevents the same research from being gathered for the same keywords each time they are run. That way an article you write on a set of keywords will be different, based on the research found, than another user who writes an article on the same set of keywords.

Even better, this means that you can create multiple unique articles on the same topic keywords. That gives you the ability to post to as many blogs as you want, submit to article directories as many times as you want and get as much content about a topic as you want. The benefit to you is more content, more pages indexed by the search engines and more backlinks to your sites.

Right now only the English language is supported, but results from Google, MSN Live, Yahoo and the News and News Archives indexes are all localized based on your selected country. The available countries are the USA, the UK, Australia and Canada.

For the best article marketing, you definitely want to pick up a copy of Instant Article Wizard Pro.

Tahitian Noni NatureBorn Available in Canada

January 12, 2009 by · 6 Comments 

Tahitian Noni NatureBorn™ has been launched in Canada. Canadians can now order the revolutionary vitamin and chelated mineral supplement online. It has never been easier to go natural when purchasing a vitamin and mineral supplement. Eating a healthy diet provides proper nutrition to your body so that you feel great, have enough energy to get through the day, and protect (or restore) your good health.

Vitamins and minerals are required to make our bodies work properly. Unfortunately we cannot get the required vitamins and minerals completely from the foods we purchase at the supermarkets. NatureBorn™ offers us a way to supplement a healthy diet with a natural bioavailable capsule.

We have a web page you can read that explains the benefits of the Tahitian Noni NatureBorn™ and the Income Escalator™ program that you can use to earn income on its promotion to others.

NatureBorn™ is made from whole food complexes and formulated to deliver 100% of the Daily Recommended of 17 vitamins and minerals.

The main benefits of this supplement is that it provides whole food nutrition, lowers  cholesterol, supports the immune system and is high in antioxidants while being naturally bioavailable. A lot of planning went into this product to provide the highest levels of nutrition in a capsule form.  The recommended does is two capsules a day at meal time.
NatureBorn is vegetarian and animal-free.

Take a small step today in restoring your diet to its optimum level by adding Tahitian Noni NatureBorn™ to your meals. For added benefit we recommend you add two ounces of TAHITIAN NONI® Juice. You will find that together NatureBorn™ and TAHITIAN NONI® Juice are complementary.
 

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