Life Insurance Book Review

Just after Christmas, here’s a timely site: Balance transfer credit cards. Here’s the dealio; rather than paying the exorbitant interest rates on your regular credit card, you sign up for a credit card with a low or 0% APR rate for a limited time. Then quite simply, you transfer your existing credit card balance to the new card that charges substantially less interest. Voila - you’re saving a ton of money on interest.  And for those that carry a balance on their credit cards you’ll know that that’s a substantial savings.

The site www.creditcardassist.com has a variety of credit card offers and offers reviews (I would assume those reviews are biased, but hopefully they’re informative). They’re showing offers from such companies as Chase, Visa, HSBC, MasterCard, Amex, and so on.  They’ve also broken their products down to show such things as how low the initial APR rate is, how long it’s offered for, annual fees on the card if any, the regular APR, and here’s a neat one - how good your credit rating has to be to get that card.

Here’s a very cool site I came across: Properties for sale in france.  Check it out if for no other reason than to see what’s for sale over there.

I had a browse through and one thing is very striking.  Properties overseas have one distinctive difference than most north american properties - you can get OLD houses.  Not a couple of years old, not a century home, but something that’s hundreds of years old. In fact you actually buy ruins in the countryside. Here’s the description of another one: “Situated in a small hamlet 5 minutes from Bédarieux (all amenities) a large winemakers stone barn to renovate into a house.”  Again, how cool is that?

I don’t know if they have a system similiar to the MLS here in north america, but this site is chock full of very interesting houses in france that are for sale.  Worth a browse just to see the neat houses that are available.