A couple weeks ago my wife called me on a late Friday afternoon to tell me the warning lights on the car dashboard were red. I don’t know much about cars, but I know that’s not good. Unfortunately, she wasn’t just down the street or a few minutes away where she could quickly drive to a local mechanic and meet me there. She was about two and a half hours away in a town called Valencia.
Personal finance can be like a rollercoaster. Money left over in the checking account one month, an onslaught of unexpected expenses the next month. 3 or 4 good months in a row followed by 1 or 2 not so good months. This is completely normal.
One of the most common personal finance questions I hear is how much should you have in your emergency account. So many of the “experts” give different answers. 3-6 months, $3,000-$5,000, 9 months, one-year minimum, two years. The answers are all over the place—it can be seriously confusing.
Over the weekend my wife and I took the kids camping to Anza Borrego State Park, about an hour and a half outside San Diego.
When people talk about money, they usually bring things up like budgeting, debt, retirement, interest rates, etc. Which are all important topics. Not too many
Leveraged debt. The very word strikes passion and controversy. There are two main camps: adamantly for it or against it. Very few people are in
I don’t know why, but the other day on the way to work I was thinking about this house that was listed in Pacific Beach
