Warning this post might be considered too morbid for some people. I had an interesting conversation the other week with one of the financial planners in my office that got me thinking. There was a client who was in the midst of buying life insurance on a young child (about 5 years old), I had…
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Like one of my favorite bloggers out there, Bad Money Advice, I don’t really get all these “new” rules that are popping up everywhere. I don’t believe the “its different” today BS. I think most of the lists, at best, basically just rehash of old rules that I thought always existed (obviously, minus the past…
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A while ago I wrote a fun post about how Legend of Zelda could teach you about personal finance. Well this past Friday, I powered up the Wii and was reminded that I bought Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and couldn’t help but loading it up (mostly due to that SEGA Chant). It took less than…
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Written by
Evan on
August 11, 2009 in
Debt
It was a cold winter day in 2006. I was 6 months out of law school working at a firm where I usually stayed till about 7pm. I walked to my trusty, lovable Nissan 240sx. This car had so many miles the odometer literally stopped working (I am not kidding it was stuck on 160k). …
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Written by
Evan on
July 29, 2009 in
Debt
A buddy of mine is attempting to buy his first home, and learned a very valuable lesson that no one learns about until they attempt to buy their first house. It is a lesson that most people do not think until their mortgage broker tells them the bad news. I bet you are thinking, “Ugh another…
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On July 22, 2009, New York Attorney General Michael Cuomo filed papers to throw out 100,000 default judgments due to bad service. When I wrote a post way back in December about Default Judgments and How they Affect your Personal Finances I skipped over service of the papers to start a lawsuit. New York Service…
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