Posted by Dan on Dec 20, 2008 in
Lucky Hit We are in difficult economic times right now and many people are looking for ways to make extra money. The Internet has an advantage. It doesn’t require gasoline or commute time. You may need special training or skills for most things, but there are exceptions. For example, taking online surveys for cash. If you have access to the Internet, if you have sufficient computer skills to send and receive e-mails, you have all you need to get paid for surveys online.
Now is a great time to get paid for surveys online because demand is up and so is the number of surveys. Actually the number of surveys being made is increasing Daily.
Since taking surveys is an activity that you can do at home, or anywhere that you can connect to the Internet, a paid survey at home can be an excellent, low cost, low-overhead, easy way to make some extra money. And it doesn’t take huge amounts of your time. You can fill out the questionnaires for online surveys anytime you feel like it, mornings, nights or weekends! And they only take a few minutes each.
Now I know that right now you are asking yourself, “How much money can I make by taking online surveys for cash?” The answer is, it really depends on how hard you work at it and on your demographic info. But, all that aside, most survey takers who work at it steadily report incomes of two to six hundred dollars a month, with many reporting incomes of $1,000 or more, sometimes much more!
For a free eBook on “How to Make Good Money With Paid Online Surveys”, click on any of the links above and click on “Newsletter” on the navigation menu on the left-hand side of the page. That and the website you will be on have all the details.
By – Cynthia Flowers
Posted by Dan on Dec 20, 2008 in
Lucky Hit To Donate real estate for worthy causes is getting pretty easy these days. The reasons to donate real estate are getting pretty compelling too. Your company may not be getting enough income from the business. Fair market value for your property might be far higher than the actual price you’d realize from the sale of your property. Actual sales price can be much less during those times in which there is a distressed market. People say we’re in such a time. Maybe you need to make the sale quickly. You won’t be able to do the deal in a timely way at fair market rates. I know. A buyers market is just a nice way to say they have a license to steal from you. But what can you do?
To donate property–whether that be your own house or your commercial property — can make sense.
A charitable gift of land, homes, even a fur can result in a significant tax deduction. The animal rights group PETA will not complain. If need be, you can donate the whole house–furniture and all – to charitable causes. But don’t donate your cat. Donate real estate. Take your pets with you.
The benefits of making a donation of your house can be better than selling. Why? Due to the quick liquidation of assets? Sure. You also get the opportunity to benefit charities and families with needs. Charity is excellent. Find your favorite non profit and make a noncash contribution. Last — but not least — charitable contributions can be used to give you fair market value deductions of your property on your taxes.
MatchingDonors, a 5013C non profit– is rapidly becoming the premier 5013C organization for donating real estate. They arrange for you to get a tax deduction at fair market value. Then they’ll move the property quickly anywhere in the United States –including Alaska and Hawaii
Organizations like MatchingDonors give you an assessment on your property at fair market value for tax purposes, sell the the property quickly and give a percent of the proceeds to the institutions of your choice. These can range from institutions devoted to education like Hillsborough College, or great non profits like Habitat For Humanity or Cancer Research or even PETA. Humanity is served and so are you.
There are several other organizations that do this including Donating Real Estate, Real Estate With Causes, and 1-800-CHARITY CARS.
Some local organizations in the state of California that facilitate this work are include the San Diego Charitable Real Estate Foundation, Real Estate Trust at Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Posted by Dan on Dec 20, 2008 in
Lucky Hit The recent rises in petrol and diesel prices at the gas station forecourts has been astonishing. Every day when I drove past my local supermarket, the price had gone up by another 1, 2 or 3p per litre. Although it has now fallen back from the highest price of 132.9 pence per litre (that is about $12 per gallon!), it still means that my husband and I do not drive as much as we used to. And the kids are unhappy because we cannot afford as many days out at weekends.
Now I have a friend called Mark who likes to mess around with cars. I know that he converted one of his cars to run on LPG (liquid petroleum gas)some time ago, so I asked him for his advice about how we could fuel our diesel estate car more economically. That is when he told me about biodiesel.
It seems that he has been making biodiesel at home for the best part of 10 years! And he can produce it for around 45p (90c) per gallon. No – that is not a misprint!
He told me that it is very easy to make biodiesel from vegetable oil – the same stuff that you use for cooking. He collects waste cooking oil from several of our local fish & chip shops, and fast-food restaurants every 2-3 weeks. Most of them give the waste vegetable oil to him for nothing (they are glad to get rid of it), and a couple even pay him to take it away!
It takes a few hours over a weekend to “brew” a batch of biodiesel (he usually makes about 200 litres/44 gallons at a time) and then he just puts it in his car. His car has not required and modifications to run on biodiesel and it does not cause any problems. The only thing you notice is that his exhaust smells like fish & chips!
He has now produced a detailed, step-by-step guide ‘How To Make Biodiesel At Home Easily & Cheaply‘ that is selling like hot cakes on the Internet.
My husband is going to have a go next weekend, so I will keep you posted to let you know how he gets on.
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