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...Find a tenant. For a fee, a real estate agent will help you find tenants, but plenty of Accidental Landlords advertise on rental web sites directly. Just be prepared for some heavy lifting, including ordering up credit checks and calling past landlords and employers. "Ninety-five percent of tenant problems can be eliminated in the screening process," says Nuzzolese. Reading up on federal, state and local fair-housing law is another must-do. It's illegal, for instance, to say you'd rather not rent to a family with kids. When figuring out how much to ask for in rent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Accidental Landlords: Renting What Won't Sell | 9/19/2009 | See Source »

...bragging to him that I got up 15 minutes early every morning to check the news during camp, and he started telling me about heating up milk and changing diapers before he came to practice—that’s the last time I bragged about getting up early,” captain Carl Ehrlich says...

Author: By Kate Leist, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: Balancing Football and Family | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...lacks the energy and inspiration that propelled “The Crying of Lot 49” to become a twentieth century classic. It might have turned a cheap noir pastiche in lesser hands, the work of a writer resting on his laurels or trying to pick up a check. But given the extent to which the detective genre informs novels like “V.,” “The Crying of Lot 49,” and “Gravity’s Rainbow,” and the somehow hypnotic quality of even...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pynchon's Noir "Inherently" Minor | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...think you already know everything you need to know, you are probably wrong. Pandemic influenza is notoriously complex - and it changes all the time. The best defense is wisdom. But because of the way our brains are wired, we tend to overestimate how well we understand the risks. Check your own IQ (influenza quotient) with our nifty Pandemic Pop Quiz. #mediaContainer {width:525px; border:1px solid #ccc; border-width:0px 0px 1px 0px ; padding:0px 0px 0px 0px; margin:15px 0; overflow:hidden;} You will need to install or upgrade your Flash Player to be able to view this Flash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The H1N1 Quiz | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...modest one at that. (His opponent, Democrat Rob Miller, also raked in $1 million in new donations thanks to the outburst.) Michael Moore makes far more than that with his capitalist-bashing movies. The new Senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, cashed in handsomely with his conservative-taunting books. Or check out Beck Inc. to see how loudmouthing can earn you a river of cash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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