Posted in Finance, Real Estate on Jul 7th, 2009
M and I are on the hunt again for a place to live. As a first step, I decided to get pre-approved for a mortgage with a lender. In case you aren’t familiar with the term, getting pre-approved is like going through a dry run of getting an actual loan for a mortgage. The bank/lending [...]
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Posted in Tips on Jul 2nd, 2009
I have a new post up at Wisebread today about how to find cheap wine that you’ll actually enjoy. There are lots of tips out there about which wines to buy and what years are “good.” But what it all should come down to is what you think tastes good. Forget about what the “experts” [...]
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Posted in Finance on Jul 2nd, 2009
On Monday I posted an interview I did with “Chris,” a married guy in his late thirties with three young girls that lives in a suburb of Detroit. Today I’m talking to someone closer to my own age and my own place in life. Jim is a lawyer in his mid thirties that just had [...]
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