Are you asking yourself whether you should buy a home in a rising interest rate environment? The Fed went through 11 rate hikes since 2022, and interest rates rose tremendously. As a result, affordability is down. Rising interest rates is usually a headwind for the real estate market. It makes makes mortgage borrowing costs higher. […]
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Recently, I discovered that finding work is expensive. Fortunately there are tax-deductible job hunting expenses that make it less painful. Thanks to 33% of you voting that I should go back to work full-time, I decided to rev up the rusty job search engine after 3.5 years of inactivity. And boy, what a waste of time
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Listing a house? This post will discuss what very home seller should do before listing their property to get the best price possible as quickly as possible. For a guy who likes to thoroughly analyze things, I made a mistake when selling my house that could have cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars. Before
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If you want to reduce emotional stress, you need to start seeing life through a different perspective. Perfect happiness is an illusion. You would think life is a piece of cake being a stay at home and work from home dad with a stay at home spouse. But I recently went through two weeks of intense
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There’s nothing more maddening for a manager than getting a last minute e-mail from a subordinate “calling” in sick on a Friday. At least have the balls to call in and fake a pathetic sick voice! Sending in an e-mail last minute to say you are sick after partying it up all night is like
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Here are the key points from the now passed Trump administration’s tax plan for 2018 and beyond. This is the Republican tax plan. After reviewing the key points, I share my thoughts on how to win under this possibly new tax environment. The audio version is at the end of the post. Republican Tax Plan Highlights *
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Look around you. Chances are HIGH all your bosses look the same, talk the same, and act the same. If you so happen not to look like your boss, then you might be limited in your upward mobility. We all know people tend to favor those who are more similar to themselves. My dentist is a
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There’s a fear of screwing up our kids as FIRE parents (financially independent retired early parents). If kids grow up in a nice home, drive a nice car, and don’t see their parents working, it becomes easier for kids to take money, life, and work for granted. As a parent, the last thing you want
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There’s an idyllic notion about startup riches that once you’ve sold your company for multi-millions of dollars you’re filthy rich and never have to work again. I admittedly have this automatic mindset whenever I meet someone who said they sold their company to one of the tech giants. Even if they are still living in
A while back, Twitter laid off a bunch of employee and offered a severance package. This post reviews whether Twitter’s severance package was any good. It will help you determine whether your severance package or future severance package offer in the tech space are any good. The return of Jack Dorsey as Twitter CEO led
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