Should I buy? Should I continue renting? If I lived in a city where there was a clear choice, this wouldn’t be such a dilemma. However, living in a suburb of Los Angeles makes it a distressing, hair-pulling decision.

West Coast Homes has created a park model pre-fab that’s anything but bland in design. Keeping with the traditional footprint of a mobile home (long and rectangular), their park model offers a cottage feel with the option to add a loft and deck turning a mobile home into a cozy cabin.

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Over the past couple of years, as my cats have become elderly felines, I’ve upgraded their food and litter. The food upgrade was really one of necessity – my cats just can’t digest less expensive foods filled with grains anymore.

Here I am in the second quarter of the year and so far, my goals are shaping up nicely (for the most part…but more on that below). This year, I decided to make my goals more management (aka smaller) and limit myself to shorter time lines, hence the quarter business.