Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
1) I can’t invest in Lending Club because DC lenders are not allowed. Don’t ask me how another DC PF blogger does it. I assume they began their account while living outside the District.
2) Because I moved recently, they can’t even verify my identity to be a borrower so I can make some blog fodder [...]
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I need a clue into Ben Bernanke’s brain or be a fly on the wall of an FOMC meeting.
In Virginia, I have to pay out simple interest on a security deposit if my tenant stays more than 13 months in my rental unit. The renter I have selected wants to stay for two years, though [...]
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I don’t know about you, but I left college with about $20-25K in loans. It’s been so long I forgot the exact amount. But I do remember that my freshman year of college cost about $19K for tuition and another $7K for room and board (19-meal plan).
I just ran across a NYTimes article and in [...]
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I ran the numbers on my credit card debt. It’s crazy low. Between balance transfer special offers and low rates on my HELOC (where I have some transferred), I don’t have ‘toxic debt’. I’m in a hurry to pay it off because I really just want to get rid of it, but all things being [...]
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The press release is here.
Attorney General Peter J. Nickles announced today that the District has filed suit against CashPoint, a money lender that issues consumer loans by securing a motor vehicle title. CashPoint is operated under the Virginia based corporation, Dominion Management Services, Inc.
The District’s suit alleges that in making loans to DC consumers, [...]
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Rich Slick at Get Rich Slick asks what happened to all the Prosper blogs. My reply:
Prosper.com is paying out better than my high yield savings account, but I don’t have much invested there and it has yet to break even now that one loan is seriously delinquent.
In further detail, you can see my stats on [...]
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Well, I was feeling lucky last week, but now BRKB is sliding with the rest of the market and I am officially in the red with all of my retirement accounts. This means everything is shrinking in value, and not that I’m actually in debt. Which I am. But not against those accounts. I don’t [...]
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I have a very small CD holding at ING Direct. I’m slightly cheesed off that it renewed about a week before they raised their CD rates. It’s a small thing to be annoyed about. I mean, the interest lost is probably only a dollar over the term of the CD, but every penny counts when [...]
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I just got a bank statement in the mail and I realized I have six more years to pay off about $30K on my HELOC. It’s a long story, but that’s not the original balance. It’s much more. One day when I’m in true confessions mode, I might post about it, but not now.
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Wow. The economy must be doing some funky things because my credit card interest rates are going DOWN. Meanwhile, my limits are going UP.
I reported that I have 11.99% APR debt right now, but the statement came in the mail recently and it’s actually at 11.24% APR. I’m thinking I can call them up and [...]
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