As a tenant, know your rights

May 31, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver If you’re considering renting an office, or possibly locating your business in a shopping mall, today’s story will be of special interest and we may be able to save you quite a bit of money on CAM...

Be careful of annuities

May 24, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “My parents are both over 60 and close to retirement. Before the real estate bubble burst, they sold farmland — which had been in the family over 50 years — for more than two million dollars. It was...

Observations on traffic court

May 17, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In today’s column, I want to share with you some of the experiences I’ve had when sitting as a pro tem judge in traffic court, here in Kern County over the past several years. If you’ve been...

Don’t let bank accounts become dormant

May 10, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Patti Davis is a longtime Hanford reader who almost had a real problem with Bank of America, caused by an incompetent bank representative. What nearly happened to Patti would have easily taken her months to...

How Swede it is

April 19, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I am a senior at UCLA and my boyfriend (Hans) is a Swedish graduate student who I love and want to marry. Last summer, we visited his hometown — Stockholm — and I just fell in love with Sweden. It is...

My husband is a wimp

April 12, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver When faced by crooked or irresponsible tenants, some landlords fall for one excuse after another, placing themselves and their own families in real financial danger. In short, they are incredibly weak people...

Before you change jobs

March 29, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I can’t tell you where I live or which television station I am currently employed at, because if I do it will probably result in my termination. After majoring in Radio and TV Communications, I got...

The case of the miserly husband

March 22, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I have made one of the worst mistakes of my life. I am 48, and lost my husband due to cancer four years ago. We had a great marriage and I care for our teenage sons. We are a farming family which has...