If this is your first time visiting, check out the story behind this blog. Otherwise, please join the others by subscribing to my RSS feed or get updates via email so you don’t miss any personal finance articles!I finally filed my taxes, and it was so much faster this year compared to previous years [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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?? [...]

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 [...]