We all have to live somewhere. Some people live in apartments, some rent and some live in RV’s (Jacob at Early Retirement Extreme). If you’re interested in retiring early or simply making more (non-taxable!) income, one of the ways to do that is to buy a fixer-upper. Here’s my 4 step process for ...
Category Archives: investing
Sudden moves freak me out
Pretty much every day, I log into my banking/investing accounts and track my net worth. This morning when I logged on, I had to pinch myself because it had risen $3k seemingly overnight. It seems my stocks and funds took a sudden jump across the board (every single one of them). I had to re-add ...
Following (and leading) the PF investor bloggers
I ignored the "do not follow my advice" disclaimers given on the following site and the other PF bloggers he's linked to:http://www.milliondollarjourney.com/top-4-stock-picks-for-2010.htm Fortunately, I found that my investments that I made last year are already somewhat similar to theirs, if not the same. I'm happy with my pick of Encana ...
The basic retirement plan
Here's the big question for me right now:How to live on nothing coming in but investing income?I'm going to have a general rule of thumb. The first year, I will keep enough in cash that I don't have to draw on any of my investments. That will be around ...
To market, to market…
I hate looking at my stock accounts, even though I do it almost every day. I ran the numbers for November today, and my total income for the month from my "portfolio" was $2,960.54. Yay! That seems so strange to me since it didn't seem that it moved at all. I guess it doesn't when ...
Investing newbie – I have more money than brains sometimes
I'm an investing newbie. Unfortunately, I've had really good luck in the market without knowing much at all. I may be a finance person - but that means I know accounting and tax inside and out but my investing knowledge is woefully inadequate. People like me probably shouldn't even be in the market.
Freak like me?!?
I was going to buy my oldest son (the 21 y.o.) a netbook for Christmas - given that he's in University, I thought it would come in handy.But my great plans got punted last weekend when he requested that I give him the equivalent amount of what the computer would cost so ...