Mortgage Rates Climb Applications Fall
on Jun 4, 2009 in Mortgage Housing Internet Banking If you were thinking about refinancing your mortgage and been dragging your feet (or maybe your bank has been), refinancing may be less attractive than it was a week or two ago. The 30 year fixed rate was about 4.81% last week. This week it has jum...

Amazon Selling Flip Camcorder for $50!
on Jun 3, 2009 in Deals Digital Camera Gadgets If you have a gadget-loving father, new grad or someone else in your family Amazon has a really good deal right now on the Flip Camcorder. For those of you not familiar with the Flip series of gadgets they are stripped down, but very functional camc...

Using Web 2.0 to Find a Job
on May 24, 2009 in Hot Jobs Web 2.0 Jobs Quite a while back Mashable posted a list of their top 10 social websites to find a job. I have posted the list below. I admit while I'm familiar with the major sites on the list, many of them are new to me. If you are in the market, take a look.

Consolidate, Simply, Improve Your Finances
on May 22, 2009 in Discount Brokers Personal Finance Financial Planning stocks Save Money I have been helping a family member wrap her arms around her financial situation recently and thought I'd share my observations. Unlike the typical situation these days she has judicially salted away money every month for a very long time and theref...

Just How Bad is the Job Market for the Class of '09
on May 20, 2009 in New Grads Student Loans College Students Yeah, everyone knows job losses have been downright ugly for some time now. But, what about all those new college grads being churned out this year. Sure some positions may have a fairly positive outlook, but far less have a red-hot demand as in ye...

Asset Allocation Made Easy
on May 18, 2009 in Investing Personal Finance stocks Asset Allocation As a DIY investor without a broker, I have been looking around (for a while now) trying to find a tool that will help me allocate my investments in different asset classes and help me rebalance them occasionally. As I will probably elaborate on in a...

Hedge Fund Advisor Must House the Homeless to Build Mansion
on May 18, 2009The WSJ has a blog post that tells the story of a hedge fund advisor in England who was told he needed to house the homeless in exchange for the ability to rehab his home and add a pool. His total bill... $730,000. This sort of thing wouldn't fly i...

So Why Should We Bail Out Homeowners?
on May 17, 2009 in Home Buying Foreclosures I am going to take a second to pose the question that I have been thinking over the past few weeks with regard to the proposed bail out of homeowners who now owe more than their home is worth. I understand that it's politically popular to help out p...

Free Up Some Time with a Virtual Assistant
on May 17, 2009 in personal assistants Employment Save Money One of the great things about the internet is that it removes a lot of the barriers that people face every day. No pesky brick and mortar store fronts to eat up overhead expenses, telecommuting reduces the need for office space substantially, and em...

Guy Steals $20k in Stamps... To Pay Mortgage
on May 17, 2009 in Strange The title pretty much says it all. This is one of the stranger and dumber things I've heard in a long time. Apparently a guy in Michigan stole $20,000.00 in stamps and was selling them on eBay to pay his mortgage. The man was a 42 year old postal...