September 2012

How to Get Your Free Credit Score (with no credit card)

September 22, 2012

Not too long ago, the only way to get your free credit score was to sign up for a seven or 30-day trial. You had to enter your credit card, and if you forgot to cancel the membership, they started charging your card. Today there are several ways to get your credit score for free [...]

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10 Surprising Steps Every Executor of a Will Should Take

September 19, 2012

My step-mother passed away last week. She was an incredible woman. She was a pilot, certified scuba diver, Harley-Davidson rider, and if that weren’t enough, a big game hunter. No joke. Cancer took her far too soon. And now I’m the executor of her will and trustee of her living trust. While I practice law, [...]

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The Best Way to Track Your Investments Online (and it’s Free!)

September 14, 2012

The internet has done wonders in the world of money management. With websites like Mint, Manilla, and now Power Wallet, tracking your finances for free online is a snap. But one thing that’s been missing is a robust tool to automatically track your investments. Sites like Mint do allow you to link your investment accounts. [...]

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Tax Deductions for Employees who Work from Home

September 12, 2012

Recently a reader named Lisa asked me about tax deductions for employees who work from home. Here is Lisa’s question: My husband will begin working from home 3 days per week beginning at the end of this mth and will need to travel to his company’s site the other 2 days. Can you please provide [...]

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5 Things I Did In My 20′s That Made Me Rich In My 40′s

September 10, 2012

My wife and I just sent our first child off to college, and we’ll send our second to college next year. Through all the things that go with this time of life, I’ve been very focused on teaching my children sound money management principles. And the process made me realize just how much the decisions [...]

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Dollar-Cost Averaging Versus Lump Sum Investing–Which is Best?

September 5, 2012

I‘ve always been suspicious of dollar-cost averaging. With DCA, rather than investing the cash you have all at once, you invest chunks of it over time. For example, you might invest $12,000 over the course of a year, $1,000 each month. In contrast, with lump sum investing, you’d put the full $12,000 to work right [...]

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