This past week, Kristen at FiLife Blog conducted an electronic interview with yours truly. I dished about my hopes, fears, desires and best/worst financial products. With some creative research, you can probably figure out a bit more about our income … [Read more...] about Check out my interview at FiLife.com!
To show that the housing market isn't totally dead, as long as you price the house right, our neighbors sold their house for $900 less than their original asking price in just 12 days! They listed the house for sale almost two weeks ago, and I was … [Read more...] about The neighbors sold their house in 12 days!
I usually skip past people's net worth posts in my RSS reader, but something caught my eye as I scanned Mapgirl's net worth post today. Yes, we all took a beating the last few months, but many of us forget to look at the big picture. For instance, … [Read more...] about How is your net worth doing for the year? [Look at the big picture]
Apparently the Big Three U.S. automakers (Ford, GM and Chrysler) are finding out their business plan over the last few years wasn't much of a plan at all. By pushing cars, trucks and vans to millions of Americans who couldn't actually afford them, … [Read more...] about Did Detroit Oversell?
Knowing my dad reads my site, I can only picture him turning to my mom and saying "Your son hurt messed up his back again", with an emphasis on "your". Well, he'd be right that I screwed up my back less than a year after the last mishap (2 herniated … [Read more...] about Weekend Wrapup: Home Improvements and a Sprained Back
I'm going to take a different approach to Thanksgiving this year. Instead of trumpeting my own achievements that I'm thankful for, I'm going to illustrate why the little undisciplined punks running around today should be thankful for what they … [Read more...] about Being More Thankful than those Little Brats!
Ahh, the buying season is upon us. While the news is telling you how horrible the economy is and you should protect your savings, they're also telling you that you need to spend, spend, spend to keep the economy going. What's a consumer/saver to … [Read more...] about What I want, but won’t get, this holiday season
We bought our house back in 2004 near the peak of the market. It still went up another 20% according the the tax assessments and an appraisal I had done when I was looking into a refinance years ago. But as of this week, that's all officially … [Read more...] about And we’re officially stuck…
