In case you haven’t heard, the House of Representatives voted yesterday to extend the homebuyer tax credit by three months, but only in a limited fashion.
More specifically, they’re looking to extend the deadline for closing on your new home if you went under contract before the April 30th deadline. If, on the other hand, you’re [...]
Archive for June 2010
Homebuyer Tax Credit Extension in the Works
Written by Nickel - One Comment
Published on June 30th, 2010 - One Comment
Filed under: Real Estate, Taxes
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Filed under: Real Estate, Taxes
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Why You Should Fire Your Financial Advisor
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This is a guest post from Financial Uproar. If you like what you see here, please consider subscribing to his RSS feed or following him on Twitter.
As a DIY investor, I have a strong dislike of financial advisors – perhaps too strong. As far as I’m concerned, there’s nothing that an advisor can do for [...]
Published on June 30th, 2010 - 22 Comments
Filed under: Planning, Saving & Investing
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Filed under: Planning, Saving & Investing
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Buying the Best New (or Used) Car for You
Written by Laura Martinez - 6 Comments
Buying a car definitely takes a good bit of time and effort. It’s a big purchase and, if you’re like us, you want to get the most bang for your buck. Both of our cars are still running pretty well, but we know that they won’t last forever, so we’ve been thinking ahead.
At some point [...]
Published on June 29th, 2010 - 6 Comments
Filed under: Automotive
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Filed under: Automotive
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How to Add Linked Accounts to ING Direct
Written by Nickel - 3 Comments
As I noted when I wrote about closing our HSBC Advance saving account, I’ve been trying to streamline our finances. As a part of this process, I’ve also decided to interlink our remaining accounts more effectively.
As has been the case for years, the “hub” of our online banking system is ING Direct, so today I [...]
Published on June 28th, 2010 - 3 Comments
Filed under: Banking, Online
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Filed under: Banking, Online
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Death and (No) Taxes: The 2010 Estate Tax Loophole
Written by Nickel - 19 Comments
In the United States, the estate tax is a tax imposed on the transfer of assets from a deceased individual to their heirs. It’s worth noting here that the estate tax does not generally apply to assets left to a spouse or a charitable organization, but it does apply to assets transferred to children, grandchildren, [...]
Citi Dividend Platinum Adopts Rotating Reward Categories
Written by Nickel - One Comment
Guess what? Since I’m such a “valued cardmember,” Citi recently wrote to say that they’ve decided to “enhance” the rewards program associated with my Citi Dividend Platinum Select Visa card. Unfortunately, the enhancements described in such missives almost always end up being changes for the worse.
While this card has previously offered as much as 5% [...]
Published on June 25th, 2010 - One Comment
Filed under: Credit Cards
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Filed under: Credit Cards
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Summer Travel Plans
Written by Nickel - 7 Comments
I don’t know about you guys, but we’re headed out of town for a glorious week of relaxation. In fact, by the time you read this, we’ll have nearly reached our destination.
As we do nearly every summer, we’re traveling by car, and we’ll wind up covering close to 3,000 miles by the time we get [...]
Published on June 25th, 2010 - 7 Comments
Filed under: Polls, Travel
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Pick and Process Your Own Fruit to Save Money
Written by Matt Jabs - 9 Comments
It’s that time of year again folks! It’s harvest season for pick your own strawberries here in Michigan, and blueberry season isn’t far behind. Wouldn’t you rather pick local, organically grown berries for a fraction of the cost of store bought berries from who-knows-where?
Good, me too. First, go to PickYourOwn.org to find local, organic fruit [...]
Published on June 24th, 2010 - 9 Comments
Filed under: Frugality
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Filed under: Frugality
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Credit Card Rental Car Insurance Policies
Written by Nickel - 11 Comments
I’ve written in the past about the hidden costs of renting a car, and Laura touched on one of these – rental car insurance – yesterday. Today I want to follow that up by taking a closer look at credit card rental car insurance policies.
Believe it or not, all major credit card issuers provide you [...]
Published on June 23rd, 2010 - 11 Comments
Filed under: Insurance, Travel
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Best and Worst Airlines for Redeeming Frequent Flyer Miles
Written by Nickel - 4 Comments
The most recent issue of Money Magazine highlighted an interesting study on the availability of reward flights on five major airlines. The study looked at 6160 web booking inquiries for 20 routes between a sample pair of cities.
In other words, it wasn’t exhaustive an exhaustive study, but it should still give a pretty accurate picture [...]
Published on June 22nd, 2010 - 4 Comments
Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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Filed under: Credit Cards, Travel
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