With just over three weeks until our moving company packs our household belongings and ships them to our next duty station we’re rapidly approaching the D.I.Y. deadline. With several home improvement projects yet to be completed we’ve shifted into high-gear. The good news is that we’re making great progress. The most recent room to be [...]
With military orders in-hand we are moving to a new area. Faced with break-even equity at best on our home we’ve decided to put it on the rental market. Last month I shared some images of various D.I.Y. home projects that we were aiming to complete as quickly as possible. There’s a time crunch; we’re [...]
The Vanguard Group is off the movies. The investment major is running a series of advertisements in theatres. The ad spots resemble movie trailers and are in fact shown with the trailers before your feature film plays. They’re well made, funny, and seem to be appropriately targeted at the movie-going audience. Without access to the advertising agency brief [...]
Homeowners are presented with a never-ending dilemma on how to best allocate their next home improvement dollar. Generally we have two broad spending options: visible cosmetic changes, or invisible functional improvements. Most homes will require a healthy mix of both types of improvements. However your personal bias can easily lead to an imbalance and overspending in one category at [...]
Please enjoy this investment infographic produced by Financially Consumed. It’s divided in two main parts, investment risks, and diversification. The top section identifies the differences between the unsystematic risks we can reduce through building a diversified portfolio, and contrasts this against the systematic risks that diversification has no impact on. The main point of this slide is to show [...]
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