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The Financial Samurai Podcast Episode 2: Is Paying Down Debt Considered Savings?

37 Comments / Debt, Podcast / By Financial Samurai

The Financial Samurai podcast episode 2: is paying down debt considered savings? A reader asked on my post, The Average Savings Rates By Income, whether I consider paying down debt part of my personal savings rate calculation. My immediate thought was yes, but I realized I haven’t been including debt pay down at all when I […]

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Life Hack: Use Yelp To Save You Stress, Time, And Money

29 Comments / Budgeting & Savings / By Financial Samurai

As a homeowner and landlord, I’ve hired a lot of people over the years to help fix things on my home and rental properties. I always get my hands dirty and try to fix things on my own first, but sometimes I don’t have enough expertise or time to do certain repairs. Craigslist used to

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How To Get An Apartment In A Hot Rental Market

35 Comments / Real Estate / By Financial Samurai

Hot rental markets are spreading all over the country. With the stock market and real estate market both on fire, the rental market is also heating up. More people are allowed to relocate to lower cost areas of the country thanks to the permanent trend of working from home. Meanwhile, the strong real estate market

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The Financial Samurai Podcast Episode 1: Genesis

89 Comments / Podcast / By Financial Samurai

Dear Readers, Welcome to The Financial Samurai Podcast! It is the best personal finance podcast today. I decided to start a podcast to try and connect with readers in a new way. I’ve been writing online since 2009 and I feel very comfortable whipping out any sort of writing fairly easily. I thought it would

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The Conquer Cancer Foundation: Funding The Hopes Of Many

20 Comments / Health & Fitness / By Financial Samurai

Recently I had the pleasure of participating in a Conquer Cancer Foundation event at the home of my friend, Dr. Thomas Roberts and his beautiful wife Susan. Tom used to be an attending staff oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School before joining Farallon, one of the first hedge

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How Much Is Optionality Worth To You?

43 Comments / Automobiles, Retirement / By Financial Samurai

When we first graduate, we have little-to-no options since we know nothing. We’re a cost center that does what we are told and likes it. We develop skills that provide us more options over time. We look for better opportunities or ask for raises with more skills. Sometimes we get complacent and just stick with a company

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Deciding On Leasing Or Purchasing A New Car: Saying Good-bye To Moose!

155 Comments / Automobiles / By Financial Samurai

Deciding on leasing or purchasing a new car is a big decision that can cost you money if you make the wrong one. As a car fanatic since the 1990s with dozens of cars under my belt since, let me provide some tips on how to choose. I have both leased and purchased cars over

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Free Uber Rides! Changing Lives By Disrupting The Rules

44 Comments / Automobiles, Career & Employment, Gig Economy / By Financial Samurai

Free Uber rides are great. Let me show you how to get free Uber rides in this post. For the past several years, I’ve seen Uber grow from a scrappy startup to an enormous success based right here in San Francisco. In the Fall of 2013, the company was “only” valued at $3.5 billion. As

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What Is A Good Short-Term Investment? A $280,000 Windfall Needs A New Home

52 Comments / Investments / By Financial Samurai

Are you wondering what is a good short-term investment? Let’s discuss with a guest post. Greetings fellow Financial Samurai. Bruce here. I recently dropped a note to Sam about a financial conundrum that I was working through as I appreciate the analytical approach on this blog. Sam suggested that I write it up and engage the

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Why Do Some People Consistently Spend More Than They Earn?

76 Comments / Budgeting & Savings / By Financial Samurai

As a personal finance blogger, it frustrates me that some people consistently spend more than they earn and then complain why they can’t build wealth. Uncontrolled debt can quickly spiral you into bankruptcy. Control your spending! Yet, this doesn’t scare people enough to stop their overspending habits. And it’s not just hoodlums that spend more

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