I have a good friend of mine Chaz, who has a heart of gold, and always puts his friends and family in front of himself. Just recently his parents put his grandmother into a home, and it killed him to see her go there. He helped her move in and visited her almost every other day, but the last time Chaz and I hung out he wasn’t as happy as he normally was after a visit. He said his grandma seemed a little depressed and almost anxious while he was there, and could tell something was up. So the next time he went, he asked some other families if their loved ones had been showing the same characteristics, and I guess everyone agreed in some fashion. He looked into more and apparently some of the workers were not only verbally abusing the residents, but in some instances not giving them their meals or necessary medication. Chaz never gets mad, but I swear his head could’ve exploded when he was explaining to me what was going on. He immediately went online to find a personal injury attorney, and soon enough he was filling out a form to get in touch with a local attorney. I asked him if knew what he was getting into, and he showed me this directory with a ton of articles and said he’d know by the time the attorney contacted him. The next day he gave me a call and said he had an attorney lined up to represent his grandma and maybe even a few more of the elderly tenants, and I hope those responsible for the mistreatment are brought to justice.

I was walking with my little cousin a month ago down his street on the west side of Chicago, and I didn’t realize it was such a rough neighborhood. Whenever I visit we usually just hang out inside the house or play in the yard, but it was a nice sunny day so we decided to walk to the store. There was were a few groups of guys hanging out in front of some houses, but they didn’t really bother me because I was with a 6 year-old kid. But as we came to an intersection, we were noticed by something completely different; a pair of Rottweiler’s. They were fenced in, but their snouts were bending the webbing and their deep, loud barks just ran through our bodies. Julio grabbed my arm and squeeze himself against me, but I told him it would be OK because they couldn’t get to us. On the way back we took the sidewalk across the street, but they were still pushing the fence in, and I thought to myself with two dogs that size that thing isn’t going to hold forever. Two weeks ago it didn’t.

My Aunt Tina gave me a call and told me a group of neighborhood kids were walking to the store unattended, and the Rottweiler’s busted through the corner of the webbing and bit one of the kids’ arms. I guess it held on and shook her around until some adults came over and beat it over the head with a wooden bat. I asked what the parents were going to do, and Tina said they’re a low level income family and probably couldn’t afford a lawyer. I told Tina that any attorney would take this case, and they get paid out of the settlement. I then told her about this personal injury attorney website that specializes in these types of cases, and if she needed more info to click into the directory called “Hot Topics” and there is almost 100 articles there. She thanked me and said she’d help them find a lawyer, and I hope she does, because no child deserves to suffer like that and somebody needs to be held responsible.

My lease at my condo is coming to an end in June, and I’ve been throwing money away for the last five years. Most of my friends own their own places, but I’ve always taken the easy route and just ended up paying somebody else rent and didn’t want to deal with the hassle of owning my own place. But my buddy that owns my current living space is selling it and buying a place with his fiancé in July, so I am faced with a dilemma: do I find another easy way out, or buck up and find a place to buy? I know the right thing to do is find my own place, and I still have eight months to find one, so I sat down with Conrad and asked him how he started. He gave me a few recommendations on real estate agents, and then he started getting into how difficult the loan process can be. He asked me how my credit was, and by my expression he told me unless I do something about it there’s no way I’ll get approved. He took out his laptop and showed me this website his sister went to and she cleaned up her credit to get her own place. It was a debt reduction website, and just by the home page I could tell they meant business. I needed to study up on just what I had to do, so when I went to their directory I was happily surprised to see over 70 articles on various aspects of debt, and after Conrad took off I spent over an hour reading up on how I can take care of my bad debt. I filled out the form and received a reply the next day, and thanks to Conrad’s advice and this awesome website we I will finally be able to call myself a homeowner as of next summer!