Archive for November, 2005

Milestone #1 - Search Engines Ranking

Growing Money now appears as the first link when “growing money” is searched. This is a milestone for Growing Money.
Rank #1 on the following search engines:

Google
Yahoo
MSN
AOL
Excite
Netscape

Being the first link on Google has accomplished my goal. The book, “Growing Money”, has always been on the top search results of keywords, “growing money,” but the Growing [...]

Thursday, November 17th, 2005

Roth IRAs Often Beat 401(k)s

Great article:
http://biz.yahoo.com/fool/051115/113206213802.html
Motley Fool
Roth IRAs Often Beat 401(k)s
Tuesday November 15, 8:42 am ET
By Selena Maranjian
Let’s face it. Retirement issues can be confusing — so much so that we often try to avoid thinking about them or doing anything about them. (That’s why your friends at the Fool have launched an inexpensive monthly [...]

Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Philadelphia Investment Update #8 - Received Money from Tenants

I received a check from my agent this weekend. She forwarded me the money my tenants owed me.
Here’s the breakdown:
$555 Rent for November (pro-rated)
$925 One month security deposit
$300 Pet deposit
-$60 Bonus to my agent
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$1720 Check amount
Regarding the bonus, there is a funny story to it. I paid my agent $600 to help [...]

Monday, November 14th, 2005

CKCM to the Nth Power

CKCM has been strongly bullish in the past two weeks. I think the stock was highly undervalued so I bought it at the low points a few times. The last trade was a buy at the low 16’s (point A on Chart), and I sold my last batch of shares at $19 (point [...]

Friday, November 4th, 2005

Quote of the Day

Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.
- Stephen Swid

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005