Listen to the book authors, newspaper and magazine columnists and many web sites, and you will hear that financial advisors or financial planners are nothing more than glorified snake oil salesmen out to separate you from your hard earned money.
To listen to some in the finance industry and their champions, financial advisors and financial [...]
Today, we got our first phone call. It was from someone who walked by our house and saw the sign. No idea of how serious they were or weren’t, but it is still nice to get our first call. Still no MLS listing. The guys at Iggyshouse are either dragging their [...]
Friday, and the frustrations begin. We have decided to use Iggyshouse.com (more on that next post) to list our house. The main reason? A free MLS listing. Just because you are hip and cool and willing to do all the leg work to sell your home yourself doesn’t mean that everyone [...]
I’m personally selling my home right now, and blogging about the process here. So, I started wondering where I could find the same kind of thing elsewhere, particularly those who had sold their house without a real estate agent too. I am most definitely not talking about the barely disguised lies from the [...]
Day One. We will be listing our house tomorrow (Thursday) in the afternoon. Apparently this is a good time to go on MLS because real estate brokers will be looking to setup their weekend showings. But, it is not too early so that it doesn’t come up as "new" in the minds of some [...]
As a professional in a service industry, I know that often times it can seem as though a professional doesn’t do anything that you couldn’t do yourself. Usually, that means that your professional is just very good at their job. However, that isn’t always the case.
There are plenty of financial planners and financial advisors [...]
I’ve noticed that there are places out there selling tax forms. You can get all the free tax forms you want at the IRS official web site www.irs.gov. Just click the Forms or Publication links and print anything you need.
If you have tax questions, believe it or not, I have had [...]
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