My Personal Finance Blog

Update in brief…

My Personal Finance Blogger — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 19:18:46 +0000

I know I know, it’s been forever since I’ve posted anything… I’ve been completely consumed by various things including selling our old house, working on a project for a...

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Get a free gram of gold!

My Personal Finance Blogger — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:41:57 +0000

I’ve been interested in purchasing a small amount of physical gold for our portfolio and trying to find ways to do so cheaply. The spreads and commissions from many gold dealers is higher than...

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Will the Subprime mortgage industry’s woes bring down the rest of the economy?

My Personal Finance Blogger — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:32:54 +0000

I’m not normally the doom and gloom type but what I’ve been reading about subprime mortgage debt has me a bit concerned… I don’t know what will happen but one possibility is...

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An example of the need for emergency funds

My Personal Finance Blogger — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:04:30 +0000

Last Thursday night I was out watering the horses (which I do just about every day.) On my way out, I noticed that our well pump was running (before I turned the water on.) I decided to give it a...

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Expanding your credit lines - Step 1 - Clean up that credit!

My Personal Finance Blogger — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:18:46 +0000

I originally wrote this a few months ago but only just now finished it. Some of the details in the post may be a little out of date but they were accurate at the time. I’m now working on the...

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Prosper update - Still pulling out.

My Personal Finance Blogger — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 14:40:29 +0000

It has been a while since I posted that I was pulling out of Prosper. I still see no reason to continue investing in this vehicle.

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2nd Buyer backs out…and other updates

My Personal Finance Blogger — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:33:20 +0000

Our second buyer backed out at the last minute. Turns out they could not obtain financing. So, we’re back where we started…

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Update on the house sale

My Personal Finance Blogger — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 22:13:05 +0000

The international buyer fell through…not entirely surprising. We did end up with another offer on the house that we’ve accepted. They are using conventional financing and are...

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Update - selling the house

My Personal Finance Blogger — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:21:14 +0000

So we’ve gone through the negotiations and have agreed to sell our home in Detroit… The final sale price is quite a bit lower than we’d hoped for ($375K) but given the market...

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Got an offer on our house…

My Personal Finance Blogger — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 13:28:59 +0000

Writing from the road so this will also be short… We received an offer on our house in Detroit. It is well below our asking price (asking $465, offer is $350). We’ll try negotiating it...

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