You know that sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach, when you decide to remodel your kitchen …
… and you think it’ll cost $5,000 ….
… and it ends up costing triple your estimate?
Yeah.
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Tag: investing
We Bought a Third Rental House!
I can’t believe I’m saying this: Dear Readers, I’d like to introduce you to Rental House #3.
“But Paula, didn’t you just buy a house? A couple months ago?”
Yep, it feels fast to me, too.
Check out the pics, and meet me below the photos to hear the details.
(If you’re reading by […]
Why Dollar-Cost Averaging Stinks
Conventional wisdom says that you should invest in the market in small bites.
This is called “dollar-cost averaging.”
Dollar-cost averaging is the philosophy of wading slowly into the market over time, rather than diving in.
If you have a large sum of money — through a bonus, commission, gift, sale of a house or car, etc. […]
You Are Not Entitled to Retirement (and That’s Great News)
Retirement is such a part of our cultural fabric that it’s viewed as a basic human right.
It’s the final chapter in the American Dream: a home, a family, a secure retirement.
But it hasn’t always been this way.
For much of American history, people worked until they were too sick to work anymore. […]
