Dave Ives
Our First Rental Property
Setting: It’s early 1993 and I’m a newly commissioned civilian. Still working at the Base (Wright-Patterson) as an engineer in virtually the same position I had while in the Air Force. I want to buy a house. But, housing prices seem high in Dayton, Ohio. We start to look at alternatives. We get a little […]
Flea Market Negotiating
Setting: I was looking around at a Flea Market in Dayton Ohio sometime in early 1993. Marieta loved going to these things and I was just tagging along as usual. But, I’m glad I went because I learned an extremely valuable lesson. One that has stayed with me over the years and has probably made […]
A Financial Planning Class I’ll Never Forget
Setting: It was early 1982. I reported to my first Air Force duty station. I’d been to six weeks of basic training at San Antonio Texas, then another six weeks of technical school at Shepard Air Force Base (AFB), in north Texas. I’d been trained as a medic. You know, the guys who run around […]
Sorry, You Don’t Even Qualify to Buy a Mobile Home!
We just arrived in Ohio from an overseas assignment and started looking for a place to live. It was June 1991. Marieta and I had been married for about seven months and we had a child on the way; baby due in November. We had met and married in Australia and now we were starting […]
House in Huber Heights. Let’s Buy One to Live In!
Setting: Circa 1993. We were living in Huber Heights, Ohio. I was working at Wright-Patterson, AFB in the propulsion laboratory as a engineer. I had just left my career in the Air Force in December 1992. I now worked for a small company based in Dayton, Ohio. This is the story about buying our first […]