Things worth knowing before you open the app.
Each Book keeps one kind of record. These are the guides written while building them: how the odds of a lottery are actually worked out, what a tenant should photograph on moving day, what a guest wants to find in a welcome book. They are free to read and none of them needs an app.
- How lottery odds are calculated, with Powerball worked out by handEvery odds figure printed on a lottery ticket comes from one piece of counting. Here is that counting, done in full for all nine Powerball prize tiers.
- Hot and cold lottery numbers: what a frequency chart can and cannot tell youSome numbers really have been drawn more often than others. Here is why that is expected, how to tell ordinary variation from a real fault, and why it does not help you pick.
- Getting a security deposit back: the record that decides itA deposit dispute is settled by whoever can show what the place looked like and when the keys went back. What to photograph, what to put in writing and what to do when the money does not arrive.
- What goes in a short-term rental welcome bookGuests ask the same dozen questions at every stay. A welcome book that answers them in the order they come up saves the host a phone call and the guest an anxious first hour.
- Planning a same-day turnover between two guestsCheckout at 11, check-in at 4. How to make five hours enough: the order to clean in, what to check before the cleaner leaves, and the supplies that cause most failed turnovers.
- How to judge a used-car asking price before you drive out to see itAge, mileage, history and condition explain most of what a used car is worth. How to weigh each one from a listing, and the questions that settle whether a low price is a bargain or a warning.
- Which rewards card to use where: categories, rotating bonuses and capsA wallet with three rewards cards has a best answer for every purchase, and it changes during the year. How the earning rules work and a simple way to stop leaving rewards behind.
- Reading several accounts as one portfolioA retirement plan, an old rollover, a brokerage account and a savings account are one pool of money split across four statements. How to add them up by what they hold, and what the total is for.
- How to download your complete Spotify listening history, and what is in the filesSpotify will send you every play it has on record, back to the day the account was opened. How to ask for it, how long it takes, and how to read the files that arrive.
- A household chore system that lasts longer than two weeksChore charts fail for the same few reasons. How to list the work honestly, divide it so it feels fair, and set it up so that nobody has to do the reminding.
- The HCBS Settings Rule: the rights it gives, in plain languagePeople who receive Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services have rights written into federal regulation: privacy, visitors, food, a schedule of one's own. What the rule says and when a right may be limited.
- What "encrypted" really means for a private journalAlmost every app says your data is encrypted. The word covers three very different promises. How to tell which one you are being given, and what each protects you from.