Probably didn’t have someone do it, but he has always been surrounded by knuckleheads who might take it on themselves.

I know a guy who was at the game where Pedro Martinez spiked Don Zimmer’s basketball sized head into the turf. Never shuts up about it. 

When that goal was scored I thought the portal to hell had come open. 

The home inspection is worth it only if you get someone you have confidence in. If you are asking your agent for a recommendation or even the seller (never do this), it’s kind of a crap shoot. The inspector should allow you to accompany them and show you everything they are looking for. If your inspector is someone…

Soundwave was the best transformer. The voice for Soundwave in the 1980s cartoons was brilliant. 

And you knew enough to add the town tax bill! Good on you. We get three tax bills each year: Town, Village, and School. Good luck to the next owner getting that number right. 

This is too true. I spent $350 this weekend on new mulch and getting the driveway resealed. I spent most of my day off shoveling mulch and prepping the driveway. At the end of it, the house looked no different and it added no value. This, and all the stuff you mentioned, is just to keep the house functioning like a…

And it’s really hard to find out what your taxes will be. Public records can show what the previous owners have been paying each year, but it might not be the same for you!

Yes, you are correct in the big picture. I was speaking in terms of this one particular property and note. 

That’s what I clicked for. I want my click back.

I’m not understanding this logic. If you are underwater on your mortgage, but expect the market to recover before you go to sell, then it doesn’t matter. You can wait it out as long as you are able to continue making the payments.

So it’s been only six months? Let it ride longer. If you are getting into $600K properties and hedging that with $90K in the stock market, you should be thinking long-term. Unless you have another 3-4 similar sized investments in other vehicles out there, in which case don’t read this and just continue to do whatever…

It’s BS lingo invented by real estate agents to get you back in the market rather than staying put in a perfectly good house. They don’t make money unless you are buying up and turning over those properties.

It’s the requisite 2 Cents comment: “Well, I have no job and live in my parents’ basement so I don’t know why you would make me click on this article about retirement savings. It has no value to me. Every article should be about how I am victimized by my student loans and there is nothing I can do to improve my…

Hmmm. That means your wife is also bad at tic-tac-toe. 

You are mixing up the rate of return with the contribution percentage. The 1% in the title is not the rate of return. It means if you make $50K, your contribution should be 1%, or $500, in year one, 2% or $1000 in year two, 3% or $1500 in year three,.... and so on (assuming you started at zero and have no increases in…

Eh - behavior on social media is no different than just plain behavior. It really can’t be separated out from the person you are dating, and if you could make that distinction, why would you?

My company just implemented this policy. The auto increases occur every year in 1% increments until you reach the company match. 

There are uncomfortable similarities, but the comparison ignores just how bad things really were in Germany after Versailles. The reparations enforced on the Weimar government drove extreme economic pain for the typical citizen that we don’t have in the U.S. right now. There are no armies occupying Simi Valley like…

I still think he was going for a generic firefighter, like writing about Tommy Atkins’ exploits at Ypres or Jack Tar fighting against the French at Trafalgar. It was ‘Sean O’Brien.’