It is becoming increasingly difficult to plan for retirement these days. Bursting market bubbles, the possibility of hyper-inflation, increased healthcare costs, plummeting home values, and diminished retirement accounts are just a few of the factors that make the term ‘retirement planning’ seem like some sort of cruel joke. But while it may be impossible to […]

First I have to apologize for being dormant these past weeks, I am coming to the end of my Bachelor degree program and things are starting to really get time consuming if nothing else. So down to business. May was a bit depressing in some ways and joyous in others. The depressing part we pretty […]

I wanted to share some information that I received from Kara Robbins (her site is currently under construction and should be up in a day or so), a friend of mine in the Mortgage business. It is pretty good information on the current state of the market. I asked her for her sources and she […]

Yesterday I was reading a great article over at The Monevator. I have to give this guy some credit, I mean I have read a few of his articles but this one was a real eye opener. This was a concept I had toyed with a bit but I never thought of it in the […]

It would not be right to give all the credit for that intricate and complicated budget I posted in my last post to that notepad, there was a bit more that went into it and the tool I used was Mint.com Mint.com is, according to their site, a fresh look at finance. The site is […]