Cable competition

Great news! My town if finally getting a second cable provider. Currently, Comcast is the only game in town. However, Verizon and the town just signed a contract to allow their entry sometime later this year. The upshot of this is big savings for everybody. Towns with more than one cable provider generally have rates up to 20 % lower than single provider towns. I plan on taking full advantage of this as my cable bill (tv, Internet, and digital phone) is huge. I pay over $200 a month and hope to trim at least $40 off of this. I will look at Verizon's rates and then go to Comcast and see what they plan to do to retain this customer. Either way it is a win for the pocket book. Any savings that I get from this I plan to earmark for the kids 529 plans. The good old capitalist system at work.

How to get rich

Money magazine had an article last month profiling people who became rich through their own business'. The take away seems to be that the road to riches in this country comes through starting your own business. The problem with this is that for every success story there are many more failures. Still, the appeal of working for yourself is a great lure. These people all seem to have an original or at least novel idea and a sound business plan before they started. As I struggle to make my real estate business a money maker these stories provide me with incentive to keep working. http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0706/gallery.success_stories.moneymag/index.html