This is right up the street. If you got a rehab loan and gave them the $285K they paid in 2024 and put $75K into it you could get in at a good price point and have equity day one. Or you could keep making your landlord's mortgage payments for them.

This may be a hot take, but following many travels, I've determined that THIS is the Midwest. Dakotas are amazing, but are nothing like the Midwest. Missouri feels more like a Southern state than Midwest. Kentucky is more like Tennessee and Virginia than the Midwest.

I genuinely don’t understand why people don’t sell everything they have, move to Iowa, buy a beautiful old house for next to nothing, and start enjoying a simpler, better, and more affordable life.

Really seems to me that a solid hot tent a 4-door 4WD Tacoma cannot be beat for long-term travel in the USA. As I slowly make peace with possibly leaving NYS, we're getting more serious about taking a 1-2 year long scouting trip for a new place to settle. The Tacoma hot tent combo strikes me as the ideal platform for that purpose. A go-everywhere, do-it-all setup that doesn't require expensive, pain-in-the-rear-end RV's and such. Can sleep in the bed of the truck a night here or there to save on motels when we're underway, but the idea is to get to an area of interest and to stay in the tent a few weeks at a time. But we'd spring for a real fantastic tent; one with a wood stove, double-wall, ample furnishings. Solar shower on the truck, thick down bedding, the works. "Nortent" out of Norway seems to have some of the best offerings out there so far as tents go -- or possibly Springbar's "Skyliner" canvas wall tent. Solid, windproof, fireproof, and with the right stove you can keep them burning all night. We'd mostly be south for the winter of course. Route would involve Upper Peninsula Michigan, parts of ND, NE, and WY, northern NV, southern AZ and NM, West TX, and possibly even SE Alaska. From all my years of experience traveling, I cannot imagine a better setup for a trip of this type and duration. And I know people will say RV's and vans are better because you can sleep in them -- but honestly, if you're gonna be in the Western US, there's room to camp. Far as we're concerned, it's way nicer to sleep on the ground in a top-notch tent than in a hot metal box.

Actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, has died at the age of 72. “He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family,” his daughters, actresses Emily and Daisy Head, said in a statement telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…

As of today we are done owning microwaves.

The flag at Fort McHenry survived the rockets red glare and bombs bursting in air, but Casey hauled down his bunting in a fresh breeze

This is right up the street. If you got a rehab loan and gave them the $285K they paid in 2024 and put $75K into it you could get in at a good price point and have equity day one. Or you could keep making your landlord's mortgage payments for them.

You need to be maxing out your house with bunting this time of year. You need to be absolutely FESTOONING every threshold and fence and window. To do anything less is to hate freedom, America, and all things good. There is no middle ground. Become a bunting enjoyer.