Archive for August, 2005

Coming up with Money for Down Payment

I have to put a down payment for my house but I don’t have all the cash available, so I’ll have to liquidate my long-term investments. I had set up a 5-year CD ladder of a thousand dollars each in the beginning of this year with ING DIRECT, but I’ll have to withdrawal early [...]

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Philadelphia Investment #2

I put down an offer for a house on Wednesday and I heard the seller accepted the offer. The asking price was $149,900. I placed a bid for $142,000. The seller tried to push back, but eventually accepted my bid. This is going to be my first house. The house [...]

Friday, August 26th, 2005

Fool Message Board

I see this URL in my site traffic. I’m curious what it says in the message board, but I can’t get in. Can anyone help?
http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=22887314

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Comment Spammers Out

I have been receiving a lot of comment spam lately. Every time I post I get a bunch of feedbacks immediately from anonymous. It looks like a bot. There must be a script out there that automatically generates a message on someone’s blog. Look at these messages:
This blog is awesome! I’ll [...]

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Quote of the Day

Wall Street is the only place that people ride to work in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway. - Warren Buffett

Thursday, August 18th, 2005

Philadelphia Investment

A few friends and I went to Philadelphia last Saturday to check out the houses. I want to buy a house to rent out and Philly is the only place I can afford. Houses range from 120K to 160K in good neighborhoods. The prices have gone up 30K since the last time [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Wealth Class

This is how I fair in the Class categories for Occupation, Education, Income, and Wealth.
Let me know yours.

It looks a lot higher than I expected. I’m surprised my bachelor’s degree puts me in the 91st percentile even though I feel almost everyone has one these days. Probably there’s a huge portion of a [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Social Class in the U.S.

This is a great site for all you financial fans.
Class Matters
Income by Education
Thanks to J. for the link.

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Sold Shares of PACT and Rebought

I had a sell order of 500 shares of PACT for $8.75 and it was executed on Monday. On Tuesday the stock price dropped to the 7’s and I rebought 500 shares at $7.75. I’m waiting for the price to go back up.

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005

Switching back to Netflix

I’m switching back my online rentals to Netflix after hearing that Blockbuster is going to charge the same price as Netflix. I think Netflix has a larger selection and a much more intuitive website. After I logged in Netflix, I clicked two buttons and I added two entire series of a TV show [...]

Wednesday, August 17th, 2005