Season 2 of Bravo’s hit series “Flipping Out” returned last night with everyone’s favorite obsessive-compulsive house-flipper, Jeff Lewis. He’s a character for sure, but you’ve got to respect his abilities!

As some of you know, I’ve been flipping houses (foreclosures, estate sales, short sales, etc) for the last 2-3 years. The real estate market took a REAL ugly turn earlier this year, and I got stuck with 2 properties still on the books. It’s not a big deal right now, I’m just renting them out until the market recovers.

But Jeff’s got millions of dollars tied up in his properties, so I was anxious to see how he handled the real estate downturn. He’s taken a similar approach to me - Working on other things to bring in money while weathering the real estate shit-storm.

In his case, that means working for someone else - Which should make for some great TV, as he’s a total control freak! Be sure to check it out, every Tuesday night at 10pm on Bravo!

Wishing all the fathers out there a Happy Fathers Day!

An enterprising company has taken the fractional jet ownership concept, and modified it for exotic cars! Extreme Car Share is an exotic car club exclusively providing fractional ownership of exotic and luxury cars to their members. Your membership represents a time share in a collection of exotic cars, gaining access to a rich variety of today’s top exotic and luxury vehicles that alternate on a monthly basis.

As one of their “lucky” members, you will have exclusive access to a different exotic car for five days every month on a rotating basis. Your dream car will arrive at your doorstep ready to go, freshly detailed and with a full tank of gas. After your drive date, to include Friday, Saturday and Sunday, they pick the car up and prep it for the next member.

Their collection of cars is rather limited right now, but as the company grows, I’m sure they’ll add more cars to the stable. They currently offer a Ferrari F430, a Rolls Royce Phantom, a Lamborghini Gallardo, and a Bentley Continental GT Convertible!

When I first heard about this concept, I was pretty psyched. I don’t put a lot of miles on my cars (a benefit of working from home), and exotics depreciate QUICKLY. A few years ago, I bought a Porsche 996TT for around $150K.. Over the next three years, I barely put on 15K miles. When it was time to sell the car, I was lucky walked away with $80K! That car cost me $23,333/yr to drive. That breaks down to almost $64/day. (And that’s not including insurance and maintenance!)

So begs the question - How much does the Extreme Car Share cost? They’ve got a number of different options. An annual membership costs $7950 + $1695/month. So you’re paying a grand total of $28,290. If you don’t need the full 7500 miles annually, you can step down to the 5000 mile plan, which saves you $6000, bringing the total down to $22,290.

The Full Term Membership program includes five full days of drive time, including a Friday, Saturday, & Sunday every month for a full year. This comes out to 60 drive days annually.

For those on a budget, they also offer a One Weekend Every Month Membership, which gives you the car for one weekend a month for 9 months. This plan only costs you a grand total of $16,005.

An interesting concept for sure, but it’s just not for me. I’m sure it’ll do well (especially in the land of idiots, Los Angeles), but after crunching the numbers, it just doesn’t make sense to me.

My Wii Fit finally arrived on Thursday, and it’s absolutely KILLED my productivity! Who knew that a little plastic board would be so addictive and fun? Kudos to Nintendo for completely changing the video game landscape - First with the Wii itself, and now with the Wii Fit.

The Wii Fit is supposed to help get you into shape, and I think it does that to an extent. The Fit focuses mainly on balance (and uses said balance to determine your Wii Age). Sure, they’ve got a Strength Training section, but not a replacement for free weights. They’ve got Cardio, but it’s not a replacement for a treadmill or elliptical. Where the Fit really shines is with their balance games, which are a ton of fun!

Will most people lose interest with it over time? Possibly.. But as more and more games come out that support the balance board (Wii Ski’s the only title at the moment, but more are on the way), I think we’ll see even more people jump on the Wii Fit bandwagon, causing shortages like the Wii shortages that still make it hard to find to this day!

From now on, I’m going to get my Fit work-out first thing in the morning, so I can get it out of the way, and focus on my tasks at hand for the day.

If you’re on the fence about a Wii Fit, just take the plunge.. Trust me!

We’re a FedEx shop. We ship thousands of packages with FedEx each month, and there’s never a problem.. They might cost a bit more than the competition, but it’s worth it for the piece of mind. Unfortunately, it seems like whenever I buy something and have it shipped via UPS, inevitably there’s an issue.

Last Friday, I ordered a Wii Fit from Amazon.com. They sent me the tracking number, and I was psyched. I knew that with a holiday weekend, it would take a bit longer than usual, but I expected to receive the Fit by Tuesday or Wednesday at the latest.

Unfortunately, it looks like they decided to sit on my package from the 24th until the 28th. Maybe they’ve abandoned their trucks because of rising fuel costs, and moved to these bad boys!

It’s frustrating, that’s for sure.. Fuel be damned - Get a fleet of these suckers, and let’s speed up the deliveries..

Here’s hoping the Fit shows up today!

Zinio has released an optimized iPhone magazine reader, which allows you to view full popular magazines for free!

On their regular website, Zinio.com charges $4.99 an issue to access major magazines like Car and Driver, Popular Mechanics, U.S. News & World Report, and PC Magazine. They also sport racier titles such as Playboy and Penthouse.

The iPhone version allows you to view the entire magazine - From start to finish - For FREE!

To access this site go to: www.zinio.com/iphone from your iPhone.

They offer tons of popular magazine titles:

US News
Playboy
Mens Health
MacWorld
Car and Driver
Penthouse
ELLE
Viv
PC Magazine
Kiplingers
Esquire
Technology Review
Popular Photography

…and more are constantly being updated

Enjoy!