Attractive one story home with 4 bedrooms, 2 baths, listed at $519,000

Amazing property located in Moorpark on 42.4 acres. Home is approx 5,400 square feet, 18 acres of young avocados in their 6th & 7th year of full production.

According to a new survey conducted by Self Magazine and Today.com, 46 percent of people lied to or kept secrets from their spouse or partner about money.

The detailed online survey, questioning over 23,000 individuals, found that 37 percent of men and 56 percent of women were guilty of lying about purchases, money withdrawn from joint accounts, or secret credit card debt. 

Love notwithstanding, financial compatibility is a key marker for a successful long-term relationship. Financial trust is a benchmark for most relationships, where couples combine accounts to pay for living expenses. Even though more than 50 percent of people admitted lying to their partner, more than 60 percent of those surveyed believe that financial cheating is as lethal as actual cheating in a relationship. Study author Sara Wells says, “More than two-thirds of people think being honest about money is as important to the health of the relationship.”

The gates have opened, but the flood hasn’t started. Bottlenecked foreclosures, locked up in the aftermath of the robo-signing scandal, are slowly trickling down the mainline. The past six months, at least since the release of 2011 numbers of foreclosed home sales, saw a lot of predictions of the housing market becoming paralyzed as foreclosures unfroze. 

According to new data released by LPS Applied Analytics, some of those early predictions were, in fact, incorrect. Foreclosure inventory remains near the historic highs seen at the end of 2010. Also in the report, even though first-time foreclosure starts in March hit a five-month high, newly started foreclosures were still down 31.1 percent from the same time last year—signs of an improving market. Mortgage delinquencies continue to decline, reaching the lowest level since 2008. Another positive turn, the number of homeowners who recently (within the past 6 months) defaulted on mortgage payments is down by 6.7 percent. 

Another analysis by CoreLogic found that foreclosure inventory is at it’s lowest since 2009, and that there were 69,000 completed foreclosures in March 2012, compared to 85,000 last year. Forty-nine percent of foreclosures completed this year occurred across five states: California, Florida, Michigan, Arizona, and Texas. These numbers are promising signs for Arizona and California, states that endured some of the worst market turmoil.

Bad bosses come in all shapes and forms and are, unfortunately, common in the workplace. There’s the micromanager who hovers over every task and project; the yeller who motivates employees with fear and reprimand; and the irresponsible boss who blames employees for his mistakes. If you take orders from a bad boss, follow these 9 simple ways to improve the relationship between you and your boss.

1. Put on your emotional armor. Detach yourself from the situation and don’t take your manager’s crude remarks personally. If your boss is a jerk, he’s probably a jerk to everyone else. It’s easier to ignore your boss’s insults and misdeeds if you can numb your emotions. 

2. Analyze your own behavior. If you’re having a problem with a boss, first assess your own performance. Whether you take the high road or resort to passive aggression (or even backstabbing), you need to be mindful of your actions towards your boss. Once you know where you stand, you can improve your behavior or better understand where their animosity stems from. It’s possible your boss’s behavior has impacted your work performance. If this is the case, find positive reinforcement elsewhere and focus on your tasks, so there can be no room for reprimand.

3. Get out of the gutter. Just because your boss makes inappropriate comments, does not give you authority to do so. It’s not smart to play his game of nastiness, especially because that’s probably just what he wants. Don’t stoop to low levels of conduct. Instead, take a step back and say, “I’m looking forward to this conversation at another time, but not in this way.”