This is a fantastic idea actually (renting hotel room)
Posted By: Thank you on 2006-03-30
In Reply to: To take the job or not - DK
It may be tax deductible. I actually like my home and it is affordable as I got it at a low price several years ago and put a big down payment on it. In other words, I doubt if I could repeat this. No small children. What I am thinking of is that I will probably have to work until I am 60 at least. The only other option would be to go back to school and get training in another skill but even that seems difficult. I have no idea what I could learn and work at other than nursing.
Thank you very much
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A nice sunny room just for me in our finished lower level. Love my cocoon room.
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I have never had my own room. I shared a room with my sister, went away to college sm
and had a roommate (whom I am still close to) for 4 years, moved back home and back to sharing a room with my sister while she went to a local college and then got married. In fact, after 17 years of marriage, this is the first time in my life that I have had my own dresser, not just the top two or bottom two drawers!
I could never live alone. Not for fear but for loneliness. I like my alone time but I love to have people around.
Renting
When I first started out I was renting a duplex and had a CPA do my taxes. It allows you to deduct the percentage of the sq footage that is used for your office, i.e if you have 10% in an office then it deducts 20% of your rent from your IC wages. Say you have 1000 sq foot home and your office is 10 x 10 or 100 sq feet. which is 10% of your total sq footage. If your rent is 700 per month it will take off $70 per month for your office or 840 per year. There is no property taxes thast can be deducted as you do not pay direct property taxes -- just in your rent.
Question on renting
Does anyone own a home that you rent out? Could you please give the pros and cons of renting out your home as we are thinking about doing this. Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Renting information for you...sm
1. Check with any agency that regulates residence rentals in your state to make sure you follow the current laws.
2. Check references on potential renters - it's well worth the $50 to have a person's background checked.
3. Spell out the rental terms explicitely. For example, if late fees kick in after day 5 of a missed payment put in writing what the late fees are. You may also want to put provisions in there (if allowed by your state) for things like yard maintenance (if the grass goes more than 2 weeks without being cut in the summer they pay an extra x $ for you to hire someone to do it), provisions about if the police are called out for problems that they are evicted, etc. Again - check with the state governing agency to make sure you don't violate any laws.
4. Some people choose to hire an overseeing agency to handle rental agreements, do the background check and collect the rent. Most of the ones around Atlanta charge 10% of the rental fee as their fee, so if you choose this avenue set the rental rate at a level to cover this.
5. Be sure to check with your homeowner's insurance regarding an umbrella policy to cover in the event a rentee gets hurt on your property. Also your current policy coverage would change.
6. When figuring out the rent rate, find out what comparable homes are renting for in the area and be sure to calculate enough to cover the mortgage, insurance, upgrades, and impact to your personal taxes (you have to report the income but can write off a percentage of any upgrades).
Good luck - being a landlord can work out very well as long as you do your homework first!
I don't know about renting short term,
I think you could rent it and then return it, but you would have to ask. A friend of my rented-to-buy a Dell PC from them and learned a lesson. She paid approx. 200 every two weeks for almost a year. You will pay 3-4 times what the product is actually worth.
tried one in hotel
tried one in hotel, it was ok, but not my favorite, maybe if more pillow top. My wife seemed to like it.
leasing is same as renting a house, never the best financial choice...sm
bottom line is somebody is making money off of you leasing. If they didn't make money off of you, they wouldn't lease. Same thing with renting. Renters always cover the mortgage and repairs on a home while the owner reaps the benefit of building equity. Now cars are a little different as they definitely depreciate while homes do not (usually!) but as I said, if they weren't making money doing it, they wouldn't do it. You can easily find a traded-in used vehicle with 50,000 or less at a dealership. Get one of the yearly reports from Consumer Reports and you can find which cars are the most reliable (for example, Buick LeSabres - those things run 4ever). Best financial move is to buy it from a private party with cash. I mean showing up with the whole offer in $100 bills. Few people can pass that up. If you can't get the money together to buy a car outright, you will for sure never get ahead driving someone else's car and paying them for the privilege of it. And you are just kidding yourself if you're driving around in a "new car" that you can't even afford to buy.
Question inside about Renting from Rent-A Center. sm
What was your expeience? Is it very expensive? I was thinking about renting a laptop computer to use for work on vacation for a couple of weeks and not ready to invest in purchasing a new laptop yet. Can you rent things for about a month or do they require longer?
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No, stayed at hotel right near it, though.
Most of the places in M. Beach offer a package deal such as the one you describe. We have stayed at Compass Cove and Caravelle and both offered family value packages that include the suite, buffet breakfast daily, and tickets to local attractions. We are going back to Compass Cove this year, in fact. Both Caravelle and Compass Cove also renovated over the last year. Have you checked sites like Travelocity? Sometimes they have customer reviews that can be very helpful. Are you taking children? If so, I would recommend Compass Cove or Caravelle, either one. However, Monterey looks like a very nice place from the outside, at least!
Hope you have fun! :) When are you planning to go? We usually go towards the end of August. Rates are even better then. ;)
NEED HOTEL IN ALLENTOWN PA
I am lookng for a modestly priced hotel in Allentow PA for October 7th and 8. I am going to J C Birney Stadium to hear College bands. Any suggestions.
Also check with the hotel -
to be sure that their internet service will allow you to connect to your VPN, if you use one. I have had a few occasions when travelling that I was unable to connect to my VPNs and was not able to work. It had something to do with the hotel's internet security settings not allowing it.
Depends on your hotel.
If you stay in a large chain (Hilton, Holiday Inns and such) and you are not in a rural area you will usually find high speed and you pay for the time you need - say $9.95 per day to use their connection. You just bring your PC or laptop, connect and voila! If it is dial up .. either change hotels or prepare for longer waits or perhaps not being able to work depending on your situation. The other writer is correct to mention calling your hotel to be sure. Actually some hotels have the service "free" now.
Onesuite in hotel
That is exactly what I'm doing when I travel. I use my Onesuite account and dial an 800 number from my room and save on ridiculous charges from hotels.
Now you can also use its voip feature if your hotel has a good internet connection and you have your laptop with you. Saves you the trouble of dialing the 800 number or worry about getting charge for that 800 call.
leasing in like renting - paying someone else for the privilige of driving their vehicle..sm
with the low mileage you put on vehicles, you would have an easy time selling outright to a third party. Crunch the numbers. figure out what you would pay for leasing, including deposit. Figure out what you could buy that same car for. If you hold it for 5 years, you can get an idea of how much cars depreciate by checking blue book prices on the current model and a 5 year model. Use that to figure what percent it would depreciate. Then add your leasing costs all together. Add your car payments all together. Then subtract from the car payment what your car would be worth in 5 years, because you'll get that back, ya know. IMHO leasing is done by people too lazy to figure out the numbers and by people that it's important to "look good" to the neighbors, regardless of what your bank account actually holds. Hope you don't mind my honesty. 
I've never had any problems with hotel.com
The best thing to do would be to call the customer care number 1-800-219-4606 CST. I do know that they always charge your card for the full amount of the stay, but if they didn't have the room, it should have all been refunded. I thought that when you book through a website like this each website booking company has a set number of rooms available in the hotel. If the hotel used one of the rooms set aside for hotels.com without the knowledge of hotels.com, then the hotel would be responsible for giving you an upgraded room. If there were no rooms available at all, then hotels.com should refund everything (not sure about the overage charge, though).
If you have ever worked as a hotel housekeeper, you'd know.
Let's see, here. People can't hit the toilet. People can't hit their mouths with their food. People do nasty, kinky things and leave it for the "maid" to deal with. People do illegal and immoral things, and also leave those for the "maid" to clean up. The hotels are hush hush about it so they don't lose clientele. The "guests" treat the housekeeper like a peon. You are only there to serve them in their superiority. Most of your coworkers don't speak English.
Glasses in hotel rooms. Uh Oh...
And people worry about the local water
This is a must read! Our health when traveling depends on what we know about hotel practices.
Not true. There are times that renting a home and leasing a car make more sense.
than outright purchase. Do your homework.
desk clerk at a low-budget hotel -
I called in sick with the flu, and that night the place was robbed at gunpoint. I had never been so happy to be sick!
Know of this - its fantastic
Have been using this for well over a year now and its been a really great help in finding words. I have this as my homepage now, instead of Google. It has all the features of Google, but just so much better. Guess its due to all those medical websites added to its database. If you use this, you'd notice that the first few search results pages almost always show up quality medical links. Normally, you don't have to go beyond a maximum of two search results pages to get what you are lookin for. Try it - you'd know what I'm talkin about :)
that's fantastic! congrats!!
how did you get so lucky to find a man that can actually voice his appreciation of you to you!!??? there aren't many out there like that.
what about the fantastic four, remember them?
I think there is a movie out about them, but my boyfriend and his brother liked the characters from childhood. For their basketball team, they had T-shirts made up; one was the torch, one was the rubber man, etc.
Since they brought it back and made a movie, it may be a bit overdone now, though.
Gee, are these four boys, four girls, ages - do they like scary or are they just small?
Fantastic Sams
Do you have a Fantastic Sams in your area. In my area they do a good job and they don't cost a fortune. But in all cases, be careful about who you let color your hair. You can also lookup the websites of the different hair color products on the Internet and some of them have a consultation area where you can talk to someone to get advice.
Ours is right at $3, but I get FANTASTIC gas mileage.
I feel for those of with you SUV's and minivans. Filling those up has got to be expensive.
Fantastic!!!! Good for you :-) nm
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OMG!!! That was totally fantastic! sm
Such great talent for a little boy.  
Just got back on a Timeshare trip - cost - 200 and included 3 nights hotel
and tickets to a bunch of free stuff! It was fun. Was it worth it? I am not sure! We got hounded pretty bad about 'buying a timeshare' but it was very affordable! Beautiful place too!
Aladdin is a nice hotel, nicer than Excalibur but comparable costs.
And it's in the middle of the Strip, so if you plan to do walking you have the Bellagio, Paris, etc. close by.
Who is this fantastic company? May want to apply.
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Fantastic and THANKS. Apprecitate the replies! nm
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Katharine is my top pick by far. Fantastic all around. nm
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Hey, Ghost, yes, I got these two years ago, they are fantastic,,,,,sm
They really block out any noise around your house, are comfortable, but best of all they produce crisp, clear, life-like sound for all those mumble-mouth dictators.....won't solve everything, but I have been doing this over 25 years, used Dictaphone, and many many other brands, Bose rocks, not to mention using them for music listening, absolutely awesome and worth the bucks, IMHO! 
I thought Transolutions was sooo fantastic, don't they have something to help you with that?
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I believe fantastic transcripts only hires locals - sm
But I am not sure. If that is the company out in Burbank/LA - I thought they only hire within 30 minutes of the area. I could be wrong.
Been working on a fantastic project at work...sm
Helping prepare for President Bush to come and give his Veterans Day speech from where I work. It's amazing to see how they put everything together in a few short days. We got word less than a week ago he was even coming, and now we are overrun with preparations and White House/Security staff. Hoping I can get a ticket for my 10 y/o daughter to come to see the speech. If you would have told me 15 months ago when I took this job that I'd be working on this now, I never would have believed you. I worked at home for 13 years, so this is all really huge switch for me.
Sounds fantastic. I wouldn't stres-sm
about it. The colors sound great--the menu sounds delicious. Either place you put the food would be fine. Have fun!
What a fantastic, cogent, and TRUTHFUL post.....sm
We at home have been reduced, in most part, to a pair of hands who are there to pound out high-quality work at all times, put out high-volume work to bring in the $$$ for the company/corporation, and because we are employed at home in order to save physicians, hospitals, and other health care systems $$$, we are where the buck stops, and it is a small buck at that. We are all a separate entity, working remotely, and as such it is easier for many MTSOs to offer the slimmest package they possibly can, and squeeze the most out of the workers. When will companies realize that a happy worker who feels valued and cared about is a more productive, loyal, and healthier asset to the company. I have worked in hospitals with unions, and to be honest, we would still be making half of what we now make were it not for union negotiations standing up for us, the dues are small compared to the guaranteed packages, and guaranteed raises built in to the contract for the next five years, as inflation eats up our paychecks. MTs study hard, must be experts at anatomy, epidemiology, grammar, semantics, translations for ESLs, understand clinical procedures during difficult procedures, edit, trouble-shoot when there is a problem with a file, be tech-savvy....I truly think, after almost 20 years, that MT as a profession has consistently been undervalued and undermined by offshoring. Sorry to rant, but all of these problems have hurt and affected most MTs for many, many years, and their families. Thanks!
Fantastic program .. I have hired MTEC
grads and have been really pleased with them. I would definitely suggest you choose that program. Wonderful education and caring staff.
I do, 20 bucks plus shipping. Pedal works fantastic, hardly used.
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Wedding websites are fantastic..that address can be shared on the save the date card.
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NO, THERE IS NOT ENOUGH ROOM
in the insane asylums for all us newbies !!!!!!
Seriously,I do turn the speed up one notch from the middle for one or two excellent dictators, but any more than that, and most dictators would sound like chipmunks!!
I have room -- do you?
Looking at all of those thousands of displaced, hardworking, honest people and families you have to know that their homes and jobs are simply gone. They will need to start over elsewhere.
Can someone create an information bank of those of us willing to offer housing availablity (such as an extra bedroom) on a short-term basis. Sort of a temporary arrangement for the family to have shelter and food while looking for a new job/home etc?
Is there an agency for this?
I'm a room mom too...I always sm
order from Oriental Trading Company. Tons of inexpensive crafts for all ages. Sometimes the teacher will take up a 50 cent or 1 dollar donation from each child to cover the cost, but generally I just pay for it myself and write it off as a donation.
Get a room
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I have my own room
used to be the third bedroom. Just recently budget decorated (yard sale finds, etc) it in a moderate retro look, black/gray computer, black accessories, peach wall and funky 1950s barkcloth curtains and bulletin boards (can't live without a place to tack up reminders, etc), black iron and oak bakers rack, painted a tall chest of drawers black to hold office supplies, black bookcase and two dark oak desks. Sounds kinda of dark with all the black, but it is realy quite light with the peach on the walls. Going for a more clean, streamlined look (Previously had country birdhouse decor). Even with my own office, I'm constantly fighting paperwork!! Ugh!
When I was room mom.....
I coordinated parties, helped out with field trips, that sort of thing. I had student names and their parents and telephone numbers so I could call around if I needed help with something (like a Christmas party). Also, to introduce yourself, send a note home with each child introducing yourself and letting them know if they have questions, they can call. I had parents call me just to find out my thoughts on different things going in the class. I loved being room mom. You get to know the kids. Also, let the teacher know that you are available to help her. Good luck!!
room mom
 Oh boy, does that bring home memories! I was not a success....the first thing you do is take a Valium an hour before you go! Seriously though, talk to your co-mom, then the teacher, ask her about the dos and don'ts of parties, etc. I think the thing that got me the worst was the little chairs I had to sit on! Lot of trouble getting down on one, then getting up!
The little ones (I'm talking kindergarten) are excited to be there, they get noisy, and there are a lot of them! Also, there are always one or two that cry at first, one might go somewhere and cover up with a blanket and stay there the entire time, sucking his/her thumb! Of course, somebody always wets their pants or worse in the beginning. I thought I would lose my mind, but I kept smiling!
Best of luck! Remember, your offspring will be so happy and proud that you are there, so hold the banner high!
room mom sm
In addition to coordinating parties, etc., the room moms at my daughter's school usually have some kind of a get together so that all the moms can get to know each other. Also, it gives the room mom a chance to go over things that will be happening in the class.
Last year, we had a little "party" at the room mom's house with snacks, etc. That was a great way to get to know the other moms. The teacher usually meets with the room mom before the get together at the beginning of the school year.
The room mom also asks for volunteers for any party, field trip, etc. We always have plenty of volunteers which makes the room mom's job a lot easier!
Hope that helps!
Too bad she's not in the same room with you
so you could ask her if there was something you could help her with so you could both get back to knocking out the reports.
got room in that bag for me too??? --nm
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