Quotes of the Day

As a homeowner, through creative living arrangements like living in your home's basement and renting out the upstairs, or sharing your condo with roommates, you can pay down your mortgage even sooner. [2017] - Sean Cooper

Walking before eating can offset the detrimental effects of high-fat meals, lowering by 25% the levels of blood triglycerides (a type of fat related to how much sugar you eat, above-normal levels can lead to heart disease). Wait at least an hour after eating, and don't exercise too close to bedtime, as you may then take longer to fall asleep. [2021] - Gerald Lemole

Whatever your body weight status, knowing your risk of diabetes can help promote its prevention. Many thin people of Asian ancestry are prone due to their genetic markup. Getting your polygenic risk score shouldn't be expensive or difficult. The data can be derived from a gene chip (array) used by companies like 23andMe or AncestryDNA or low-pass genome sequencing. Either method detects the several hundred letter variants among the 3 billion letters of the human genome, and a formula is used to calculate the score, with weighting of specific variants by their importance, and critical attention to the person's ancestry. [2025] - Eric Topol

Women don't respect guys who pay for them but at the same time are turned off by guys who are cheap. [2005] - Neil Strauss

It's very hard to live off the cash flow from buy-and-hold property unless you have the mortgages paid off. Most real estate investors create their "cash today" using one of the following five strategies: 1. Wholesaling or assignments; 2. Flipping; 3. Becoming a realtor; 4. Creating a property management business; 5. Adding a strategy like rent-to-own that will increase your cash flow on a monthly basis. [2013] - Julie Broad