WKYC in Cleveland reports on a new service for landlords which allows them to snitch on bad tenants. The site is called DoNotRentTo and the service also allows prospective landlords to find bad apples before renting to them. Landlords can add people to the list for free, but searching the list for the innocent renter will run you $30 bucks a year.

According to WKYC, tenants who have been badmouthed unjustly can contact the company to dispute the claim. The problem with this logic is that most tenants will not know they are in the database until they have already lost out on an apartment, that is, unless they fork over the money for a subscription.

I am all for warning potential landlords about crappy renters, you can't rent without running into at least one bad tenant during the course of your business, so any tool is helpful. Unfortunately this database won't keep you from renting to the frat boys from hell, who are out on their own for the first time. Despite this downside the service looks to provide useful background information so that landlords can make an informed decision. The available information includes, anecdotes, damages, drug use, sexual offenders, and more.

To me, the best Daily Deal is a free Daily Deal -- That's why I most recently wrote about Wal-Mart's free samples.

Standing in line at a RedBox DVD rental kiosk on Thursday night, a wonderful lady told me that when I went to pay for the DVD, I should enter the promotional code "SHOP" to get the DVD for free. Sure enough, it worked.

Curious about this, I got on Google and found insideredbox.com, which has loads of codes for each state. My suggestion: write down a few in case the first one doesn't work, and you should be able to get your DVD for free. Of course, if you keep it more than a day, you'll have to pay $1extra.

But if you have the discipline, you should be able to get free DVD rentals for as long as Redbox runs these promotions.

Now that's a daily deal.

In my last post, I wrote about the hassles of refinancing. It's been a while since I've updated everyone, and I apologize for that, but I've just been dwelling on what to do.

The wife and I sat down and talked about everything. About how we got into the position we are in and how to get out of it. Basically what it came down to is that we jumped into the "home-owners" market too quick. We got sucked in by the allure of owning our own home. We didn't realize all the side effects of owning a home; the maintenance, the upgrades, and most importantly, actually paying for it.

I received a lot of very helpful comments. My short Walletpop career has been jammed with more information than I have read in the past few months. The help and the tips I have received have been great, and have steered me in the right direction.