I read through an article on the daily mail website about the Escape Artist and the tone and comments really opened my eyes. Continue reading “The public just don’t get it”
This weekend sees the opening of the V&A Design Museum in Dundee. It’s an exciting time for the city and it marks the transformation of the city from a post industrial wasteland to a modern hip city that is on the up! Continue reading “V&A Dundee: Urban Regeneration in action”
The government has today announced a roll out of a scheme called Help to Save. Only open to those lucky enough to be in working tax credit or universal credit. Continue reading “New Government Ideas: Help to Save”
Just a very quick update:
So far AirBnB is going well. We’ve had a number of requests and had to decline people who wanted to stay. A family wanted to stay for a week! Which is a bit much. We have a pair of French students staying here and another student coming next week as well. The AirBnB website is not perfect but it’s easy to get your money out and easy to use once you are used to it.
We are not taking the piss with our prices and we are listed at around £30 a night at the moment. I don’t intend to run a hotel, so I think that we can up prices a bit to reduce demand but keep the net profit high. It seems like easy money. 🙂
It’s a funny feeling to have paying guests. My wife and I have both hosted/surfed with couchsurfing but this is a different relationship and more of a commercial relationship.
So far so good.
GFF
After a bit of humming and having, we have finally put our front room / spare bedroom on AirBnB to help our finances and to to generally make my 9 month pregnant wife’s life a bit more stressful Continue reading “AirBnB and Me (part 1)”
How should you fund Early Retirement? Save after-tax money now or put it in a pension to be accessed when you are 58+ with tax advantages? It’s a tough choice and one that I’m struggling with. Continue reading “FIRE vs. Pension”
August is over now and the expenses have been tallied up.
Another expensive month as we are preparing for the arrival of the Little Lady – kid number two. Continue reading “Month End Accounts: Spending August 2018”
