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Archive for May, 2006

Selecting A Financial Advisor

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Today's WSJ has a good piece on selecting a Financial Advisor. Since its a subscription site, here are the highlights.Looking for an adviser? You've got to keep these five pointers ... Read more..

Update on the Attorney Meeting

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

In a previous post updating my oil investing, I mentioned I was going to see an attorney.One of my partners [with whom I've deal a couple of smaller real estate ... Read more..

Vonage Saves Face Over IPO

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

In a bid to avoid trying to lose customers who bought into Vonage's IPO, Vonage has told its underwriters that it will cover the cost. If customers no longer want ... Read more..

Why Reputation Is Important

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Everyone always admires those people who do the right thing no matter what the consequences. Conversely, people despise those who lie, cheat and con their way to wealth. After a ... Read more..

Bouncing Check Bounces Back

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The tenant who's check bounced contacted me today. As I thought, they was out for the long weekend. He said there was enough money in the account and it shouldn't ... Read more..

Yet Another Oil Update

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

So far my investing has been going pretty good. [Apart from the small setback in the stock market crash of 2000.] I bought real estate in San Diego at the ... Read more..

Tenants Check Bounces

Sunday, May 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

I got a bounced check in the mail from my bank. The tenants in one of my Salt Lake City homes had their check bounce due to insufficient funds. I ... Read more..

How To Make Your Playboy Subscription Tax Deductible!

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 Posted in Taxes, personal finance | No Comments »

Ever wondered how you can deduct your Playboy magazine subscription on your taxes? Well neither did I, but read on anyway.Doug of The Strategic Investor has a great post on ... Read more..

Bloggers Make It Rich

Saturday, May 27th, 2006 Posted in Earn Money Online | No Comments »

Here's a really good article about bloggers who made it big. Most Bloggers make money from click-through advertisements, monthly flat-fee advertisements and occasionally from a big company and buys them out ... Read more..

Who’s Been Using Your Social Security Number?

Friday, May 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

I had a really nice house being built in St. George, Utah. Now that the house is finished, I need to refinance a construction loan into a regular loan otherwise ... Read more..

My Blog Has Doubled In Value

Friday, May 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

As previously mentioned, this blog used to be worth just under $7,000. Now I found that its value has doubled in the past 6 months to just over $14,000. ... Read more..

1031 Exchange Or Not?

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 5 Comments »

I'm selling a property I bought in Salt Lake City. It was the first property I bought there and I made a few mistakes on it. Not only didn't ... Read more..

Taxing The Rich

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 Posted in Paris Hilton | 4 Comments »

The Minor Thoughts Blog has a brief note on taxing the rich calledTaxing Paris Hilton.Not necessarily Hilton specific, but the concept is sound. If you do away will all forms ... Read more..

MasterCard IPO - Priceless!

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

After todays unsurprisingly poor performance by Vonage, the next IPO is MasterCard.Unlike Vonage, MasterCard is pretty profitable, and with a market cap of about $5 Billion [about twice that of ... Read more..

GM to Cap Gasoline Prices in Calif., Fla. at $1.99

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Since people aren't buying a lot of GM's gas guzzlers, GM's marketing team has hit on a novel way to entice customers in California and Florida to buy certain vehicles ... Read more..

Housing Sales Up While Inventory Builds Up

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Yahoo news reports Sales of new homes up 4.9 percent in April. While that makes a nice sounding title, the rest of the article is slightly incomplete. The links for ... Read more..

Do Good Places To Live In Make Good Places To Invest ?

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

According to this article Buffalo should be in the top 50 places to live.Buffalo goes head-to-head with most of the Top 50 and comes out ahead.Sperling can't speak for Kiplinger's, ... Read more..

Why you should pay your parking tickets

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sadly this isn't a post about how to get out of paying parking tickets. This is about why you should pay your parking tickets. Ask Yahoo has a pretty good ... Read more..

Blogger Quits Job!

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Jeffery Stain of SavingAdvice.com was able to quit his job of teaching and selling antiques on ebay through his blogging endevors. He's started about 20 different sites, all related to ... Read more..

Behavioral Congruence

Monday, May 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 3 Comments »

I just received No B.S. Wealth Attraction for Entrepreneurs on friday. I actually wanted to get No B.S. Sales Success but I made a mistake when ordering.As you can see, ... Read more..