Home ownership and real estate can be a lot of work for the home owner. I love old houses, but as with any home things go wrong and you have to make repairs. I have made a lot of mistakes in dealing with contractors and here are some tips and tricks I have learned from [...]

One of my investment friend recommended this site to me and I must say it is very cool! Foliofn is a company that essentially allows you to create your own mutual fund. You can buy partial stocks–so if you wanted to owe a share of Google, but not lay out the hundreds of dollars required [...]

So lately (well the last two weeks) I have been fascinated with finance.  I have always found all things related to money interesting and of course being such a nerd I absolutely love numbers.  I have been considering revising the layout of my site into sections–I am just not sure which ones to choose. And [...]

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with my good friend who recently who joined a startup research team developing software that hedge funds then use to create models. Since most of the people I interact with on a regular basis don’t find talking economics to be riveting conversation, I have asked my friend to [...]

It sounds simple right? Spend less money then you can save more, but for most of us spending less is really difficult. It is a lot like dieting–we all want to lose weight, and we know eating less makes us thinner–but in practice it is very hard. As you can tell from reading my blog [...]

I wish I had an ebay account.   I think I may set one up.  Lately I am obsessed with selling stuff on craigslist.  When I moved (at the end of 2007) I had an excess of furniture.  We started listing things on craigslist and in the process came up with tons of other ideas of [...]

I like the idea of buying real estate because there are tax advantages, it is one of those investments that have emotional appeal, and it is a great way to build equity and earn income (albeit when it comes to second homes it is often better to invest the same money into the stock market). [...]

Over the weekend the NYT ran an article of The Debt Trap a series of video and articles about various people in America who have ended up victims of the credit crisis. It is shocking to hear the stories of these people and how they tried to get ahead and despite their best efforts they [...]

Get your free Will & Trust Kit from Suze Orman.  I just started mine but for those people who haven’t set up a will yet, this is an easy and free way to get your documentation all squared away should something (god forbid) happen. Click on Enter gift code (the orange box button) and type [...]

I have been thinking (always a dangerous past time) about my blog recently and I realized that most of my entries are very disjoint and random. I write about things that I find interesting and things that I think might be useful for someone else. Although I am not sure if all of my chaotic [...]