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Entries from June 2009

College savings 529 plans revisited

June 29th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Came across an article on Kiplinger today for Best 529 College-Savings Plans. While the best time to have hopped back into your childs 529 plan if you got out would of been at the bottom of the collapse try timing that and making sure you could survive without the money. Now would be the best […]

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Tags: College Savings · Finance · Goals

Alternatives to MS Money

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments

While I have tried MS Money in the past I always had issues with it and my banking institutions. I could connect to some but not others, so trying to get everything in one spot. Now it appears MS Money is going away according to Tom over at The Sun’s Financial Diary in his post […]

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Tags: Finance · Software

How FSA Plan Account Contributions Can Save You Thousands

June 23rd, 2009 · 1 Comment

Cruising other peoples blogs I came across this article on FSA or Flexible spending accounts. Darwin’s Finance posted the article “How FSA Plan Account Contributions Can Save You Thousands“. It is a fairly well written article and is fairly in depth. I prefer HSA’s or Health Savings Accounts which you can’t mix with an FSA. […]

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Tags: Finance · Insurance · medical

Small recovery hope in my portfolio

June 22nd, 2009 · 3 Comments

Well Realty Income(O), which engages in the acquisition and ownership of commercial retail real estate properties in the United States, announced a dividend increase to $0.142375 per share from $0.1420625 per share. This is its 6th increase in the past year, and while small shows great hope for me at least.  Tom A. Lewis, Chief Executive […]

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Tags: Finance · stocks

Wow its been awhile.

June 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

I haven’t written in a while. Took a minor hit from the market fall. I had just hit making over $50 a month off of dividends in December and then in January I made $23. I now am back up to about $45 a month off of stock dividends. 3 of my 6 Prosper loans […]

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Tags: Alternative Income · College Savings · Finance

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