Archive for the ‘Ask the Readers’ Category
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Ask the Readers: What’s Your Take on Paid Book Reviews?
I got a request a couple of weeks ago from a company to see if I wanted to review a business book. I get a lot of these as my email address seems to have gotten out on some public relations circles. Usually, the pitch goes something like: PR Person: Would you like a copy [...]
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Readers: Ask Jean Chatzky a Personal Finance Question
While I know you believe that I’m the best personal finance guru on the planet, I’m going to let you in on a secret… There are some people out there who are also pretty good at person finance. One of those people is Jean Chatzky. Here’s a brief list of some of places you might [...]
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Getting Answers To Your Financial Questions
Every so often, I get questions from readers. I’d love to get more (contact me) but sometimes the questions I do get deal with topics that are a little outside my level of expertise. When this happens, I often try to direct the person to place that I think can help them find an answer. [...]
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Best Credit Card for Foreign Travel? (Ask the Readers)
Last week, I mentioned how my wife and I are going on ambitious trip to Phuket (and Australia). It’s been a little while since I went outside the US. Last year, we went to Aruba, but I’m so familiar with saving money in Aruba, that I didn’t feel the need to conserve every last cent. [...]
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Angie’s List: Any Good?
Longtime readers know that while I live near San Francisco, my wife and I own rental properties in Boston. We didn’t set out to buy them as an income stream. She owned her place before she met me. I bought my place soon after we started dating. While neither one of us intended to move [...]
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Finovate Start-up: What Would You Ask Vestopia, SmartHippo and other companies?
This Tuesday, I’m heading to Finovate Start-up hosted by Jim Bruene of NetBanker fame. There are a ton of companies presenting there. Some of the highlights that I’m looking forward to are Buxfer, Loanio (are they ever going to launch), Mint, Prosper, SmartyPig, Wesabe, Zecco, Zopa. I’m disappointed that Geezeo isn’t going to be there. [...]
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Travel Computer Project: I Need Your Advice
I’m finding myself doing quite a bit more traveling that I have in the past. Since I spend a good deal of my time on the Internet, as a software engineer as well as writing this blog, I developed a bit of a dependency on it. It’s probably not a good thing in terms of [...]
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Tenant Troubles: Update
I want to thank those responding to my article on Friday. I had some tenant troubles, and you helped me out by giving your advice. In fact, it was the most advice I’ve ever gotten. Overwhelmingly you said what I thought was right – let my tenant break her lease without penalty. A few of [...]
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Tenant Troubles: What Would You Do?
I have a bit of a problem on my hands. I haven’t talked about it in some time, but I’m a landlord. I kind of fell into the position when my fiancee and I headed west to pursue great career opportunities. I was a little leery of becoming a landlord. The job doesn’t have a [...]
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Weekly Financial Review #16
There was a lot going on this week this week, so let’s get to it: Last week, I mentioned Energi Gal and I were going to have a Financial Day. The idea was that we were going to pour through our financials. Well we got through a portion of the financial planning. I was hoping [...]
