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And, We’re Back

So, a plugin took down the Finance Gourmet blog this morning. Needless to say it will be deleted never to return. I didn’t know that it could take down a whole site like that. I had a blank screen. No error, no nothing. I ended up doing the upgrade to [...]

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Sell Your Own Home - Day 10 to 12

Middle of the week. Three total showings. Nothing new to report from the selling your own home without a realtor battlefront.

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SEC Thinks Prospectuses Are Too Big!

Comment on the SEC announcement that it thinks prospectuses are too big.

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Selling Your Own Home - Day 8

Sunday and two showings. Not too shabby. Overall, 7 showings for our first weekend on the market. We’ll take it. So far, no one seems shocked at the price which is good. We had to set our price in a bit of a vaccum since no one has sold [...]

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Selling Our Own Home - Day 7

Day 7 of the series on Selling Your Own Home. Today we look at how to set showings for you house and what real estate agents will expect from you when you do.

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Money Psychology

I’ve decided to do a new series here at Finance Gourmet on the psychology of money.  Virtually all the emails I get and questions I’m being asked from both online and in person lately have to do more with psychology than they do with raw numbers and math.  I already have about eleven topics [...]

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Bear Stearns Goes Belly Up

The official headline is J.P. Morgan buys Bear Stearns for $2 a share. The real headline is that for the first time since the savings and loan crisis in the 1980s, a major US bank has gone belly up.

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