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From the monthly archives:

March 2007

I finally filed my taxes, and it was so much faster this year compared to previous years because I did this online. The service I used was taxactonline.com, and I picked it mainly because of its low cost ($15.95 for both state and federal).
Instead of not really knowing what to do, which forms to [...]

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I read an article on bankrate.com which I thought was interesting (and potentially a real money saver for many of us) so I will give a little summary here of the main points said. You can read the link here:http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/auto/20070330_traffic_ticket_court_a2.asp
“Don’t immediately pay the fine”This is automatically saying that you are guilty.
“Never plead guilty or [...]

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Something I have always wondered is what happens to someone’s mortgage when the mortgage lending company goes out of business? Well, to answer my curiousity, I did a little research and figured I will share this with you.
The good news (and bad news to some) is that nothing really changes. The important thing is note [...]

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Speaking of tax season, there are a couple changes in the 2007 year that we need to be concerned here about 401k and retirement accounts.
Uncle Sam has really been good to us because he has increase two important limits that will help everyone potentially increase their retirement savings accounts by:
1) Higher contribution limit for 401k
2) [...]

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Since it is almost crunch time for filing out your taxes, I want to tell you something new about refunds that you might be able to take advantage of.
One of these that I want to talk about today is ways to get your refund back. Uncle Sam this year decided to expand our options for [...]

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Here’s a short speech I did on retirement planning. Hopefully I’m able to convince more of you to start saving early!
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Would you be working if you have enough money to retire? Wouldn?? it be nice to be having your morning cup of coffee on the beach instead of inside your cubicle? What can we do [...]

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As something related to the Feb sales numbers I posted for my neighborhood yesterday (Link). There was a report that came out that said new home sales dropped by 3.9% last month, which was the slowest pace in almost 7 years!
This was extra bad because the January numbers dropped 15.8%. Wow. I?? [...]

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As some of you might know, I’m starting to debate whether I should buy a house or not. I’m under a little bit of pressure from my soon to be wife to buy one, but she also agrees that the prices seem to be dropping down a little bit recently and will continue [...]

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I recently joined prosper.com and thought it might interest some of you. This site basically puts lenders and borrows together in an electronic way. I have put in a very small amount of money ($200) to try this out and see will put in more thoughts as time goes on but the idea is very [...]

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I came across this that might be of interest to some of you.
http://www.thepeacefulwarriormovie.com/freewarrior/
You can get free passes to Peaceful Warrior for a showing of the film during opening weekend only (March 30 - April 1)

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There has been quite a bit that has happened to me lately but now I’m starting to post on this website again. I realized that I would need to work harder at growing this blog if I really want this site to become something.

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