a hackers guide to managing your money
Real estate investing is often seen as one of the most reliable ways of growing and accumulating wealth but investing in individual properties was never appealing. It takes a lot of time to research and vet individual properties. It requires a lot of domain expertise that I don’t have, like how to evaluate the various […]
I love “behind the scenes” of any business. It could be something as mundane as a laundromat, I eat that stuff up. One of my favorite “behind the scenes” episodes of any program was one titled 129 Cars on This American Life. In 2013, This American Life goes to a car dealership in Levittown, NY […]
By pure chance, we get television, internet, and wireless cell phone service through one company – Verizon. For TV and internet, we don’t have a choice. We live in a slightly remote area and the only cable line that runs to our house is from Verizon. I know this because due to construction in our […]
When you run your own business, there’s a surprising level of trust involved. You trust that the customers who enter your store don’t slip a few items into their pocket and walk out. You trust that the person paying you with a credit card didn’t steal it from someone. You trust that the agreements you […]
Just the other day, someone read my post about how we track our net worth and asked me a really simple question – how do I track our investments? The short answer is… well, I don’t. I check my investments once a month, when I update the spreadsheet, and then I don’t really look at […]
Have you ever heard of Kasasa? Until recently, I hadn’t. But I’ve heard of similar products out there. Kasasa is financial services company based in Austin, TX, and they offer white-label banking services to small community banks and credit unions. Founded in 2003, they were originally called BancVue (doing all the same stuff) and changed […]
When I got married nearly a decade ago, my groomsmen were scattered across the country. There was only one store that had locations in all of these places and that store was Men’s Wearhouse. I visited a local Men’s Wearhouse in Maryland and learned they were rotating out their existing tuxedo lineup and replacing them […]
I went to college in 1998, the literal Stone Ages of Banking when the best banks had marble facades, massive branches, and big minimum balance requirements. My bank of choices was PNC Bank, one of the largest in the western Pennsylvania region, and I chose it because they had ATMs in our student union. That […]
When I was a teenager, I lost my wallet for the first, and thankfully last, time. Fortunately for me, I didn’t have much in it except a few dollars and my high school identification card. Even that loss felt like a monumental pain in the butt but I can’t imagine what it would be like […]
I’m an independent shopper. If I need something, I like going into the store, getting it, paying for it, and leaving. Online shopping is perfect for me because I don’t have to drive anywhere, wait in line to pay, and then drive home. Which means one thing — I really do not like going into […]