mileypie17

The entire lease payment can be written off?

If so, this is definitely something I need to look into.

What kind of quote did you get for an inground from doughboy?

I don't know any details. The owner of Pascale Manales relayed this info. He also mentioned how hard it is to get anything open on the lakefront due to the fact that you have to go through the city and then the state and then the core.

On a side note, I really hope they are better than Brisbis. I didn't run into any service issues while there, but the food just wasn't good. And judging by the half empty plates on everyone's table around us, it seemed others agreed.

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1) make sure you can afford your lifestyle

2) save for retirement (if you cant, rethink step 1)

3) save for kids college, with what is left over (if you cant, rethink step 1)

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I agree with this. I also, agree with the mindset that a lot of kids will blow college off if they think it is free. I had to pay for all of my out of state tuition and graduated in 3 1/2 years. I would say 90% of my friends that had tops either goofed off and turned it into 6 years or just failed out. For my kids, I was thinking of the idea that they take out their own loans and as long as they graduate, I will pay it off for them. If they don't, tough luck.

The annual fee is worth it my opinion. And if you really don't want to pay it, you could always cancel it after you cash in on your 40,000 bonus points. They also have a 1:1 point transfer to southwest rapid rewards. So that is about $850 in fares if you fly southwest.