Tag Archives: work-from-home jobs

Expenses to Consider when Working at Home

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In my blog yesterday, I talked about the expenses to consider when working outside of the home. Many people are able to rattle off a list of expenses that people incur while working in an office, but some people don’t realize there are also (sometimes considerable) expenses when working at home. Here are a few I have come up with: Expenses when Working at Home: ~ Higher utility bills because you are home all day long. Many times, people will be able to turn their heat or AC down during the day while they’re gone. If you work at home, … Continue reading →

Laptops and Courthouse Research

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I have been getting quite a few responses lately regarding the courthouse research opportunity, which is fantastic–I love to receive feedback and encourage any questions or ideas to be sent to me at Hava L {at} Families dot com. One question that I have forgotten to answer and I realized that once I went through my e-mails, is the question of whether you need a laptop. The short answer is no, you technically don’t need a laptop. But, as in the case of taking children with you to the courthouse, there is the technically correct answer, and then there is … Continue reading →

Reason #176 I Love Working at Home

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Reason #176 I love working at home? I don’t actually have to be at home to do it. As I sit and type this, I am at my parent’s house, three hours from home. My in-laws are on their way to a conference, and they offered to let me tag along for the ride, in order to visit my parents. It wasn’t out of their way (my parents only live two minutes off the freeway, so it was easy to drop me off and keep going) but it was still awfully nice of my in-laws to make the offer. They … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Four

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Are there any other research opportunities at Sunlark, other than the standard pulling of mortgages/deeds of trusts? Lark: We do collect all new mortgages except commercial. This includes refinances, home equity loans, and 2nd mortgages, as well as new purchases. In addition to mortgages/deeds of trust, we collect several other types of court data. This includes tax liens, civil cases, probate files, and several others that I prefer not to elaborate publicly … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Three

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: What requirements are there to work for Sunlark? Do you require high-speed Internet? Lark: While we look at such factors as typing speed and accuracy, equipment owned such as a laptop computer, and related experience, the only hard and fast requirements are the ability to work independently and the follow-through to do whatever you commit to. People who can manage their own time and aren’t afraid to try something new without someone … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Sunlark Research, Part Two

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This is a continuation of an interview I had with Lark of Sunlark Research. If you missed the beginning of the interview, please check it out here. Me: Do you use a custom-built program for the ICs to input the records into, or do you use Excel sheets? Why? Lark: We use both. At present, some of our clients have their own systems for data entry. For our others, we are using spreadsheets for now. Our intent is to eventually develop our own data entry software for those clients that don’t already have their own. In most cases, a data … Continue reading →

Courthouse Research Companies: Wolfgang Research

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There are three major courthouse research companies out there, that do the kind of work I have been talking about lately. There are many, many companies out there that do other types of research (criminal background checks, liens on properties, and genealogy research, just to name a few) and although I’m sure those types of research are very profitable, I don’t personally have any experience with them, and wouldn’t know how to tell y’all how to become that type of researcher. The research I did, and the research I talked about in my previous blogs, is very simple and does … Continue reading →

Dove-Tailing Jobs Together: Research and Mystery Shopping

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This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher that I started quite some time ago and through different random happenings, was not able to finish until now. If you haven’t heard of courthouse research before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! In this blog, I talked about how courthouse research is not a full-time job, except in rare cases. In this blog, I talked about it may still be worth your time to do it anyway. There are some ways to make each trip more profitable; … Continue reading →

Why Do Companies Pay People to Collect this Information?

This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! I found this job by Googling a phrase that I saw a poster on a work-at-home forum talk about in passing–Sunlark Research and something called courthouse research. What is Sunlark Research? I had no clue, so I hit Google to find out more. I found their website, and read about it some. Looked interesting, and the money sounded good, so I decided to apply. … Continue reading →

How Much Does A Courthouse Researcher Make?

This is a mini-series on becoming a courthouse researcher. If you haven’t heard of that job before, or if you missed the first part of this series, make sure to start reading here. Otherwise, read on! The first day as a courthouse researcher, I made a whopping $4 an hour. The second day, that hourly wage crept up to $7 an hour. That made me feel pretty good, because that meant I was making over minimum wage. I went back later that week, and my hourly wage went up again, this time to roughly $9 an hour. That made me … Continue reading →