After time to think, there were some things I could have done to remedy the situation but at the time I was too startled to think of them.

We go for properties that are no less than 25%, so that just startled me that your number is so much lower than ours.

i've just completed day 2 of the $500.00 3-day class on stock and options trading offered by Wealth Intelligence Academy, which is closely associated with Kiyosaki's Rich Dad company, though the WIA instructors i've talked to are vague on the specific nature of the association. i've invested in the stock market for about ten years, and while i've heard that the likelihood of making yourself wealthy is much greater in trading, i've had a sufficiently hard time grasping anything i've read about what options are, let alone how to use them, that i haven't made any headway toward learning to trade. the Rich Dad/WIA class has done a lot to open my eyes to the nature and the uses of stock options - unlike Kiyosaki's books and so forth, the WIA curriculum is full of real nuts-and-bolts specifics about such things - so i've started doing some online research to determine whether i should go ahead with the companies' startlingly expensive "advanced courses." like some others, i have problems with the pressure and apparent underhanded tactics applied by the WIA people - most notably class instructor Scott Stewart - in trying to get me to proceed with the very costly training.

Insurance can be startlingly different between two houses on the same street.The good news is that tax information is (usually) publicly available (I use Zillow for that) and that there are lots of easy-to-find mortgage calculators out there for free.

That's what drives two-earner households into bankruptcy at an increased rate.The reason this conclusion in this book was so startling for me is that, coming from a definite politically liberal viewpoint, Warren follows the government's data on poverty and reaches exactly the same basic conclusions about how families should not spend their income that an extremely conservative popular personal finance author, Thomas Stanley, who studied the affluent relentlessly for decades to write The Millionaire Next Door and other titles, also did.

I don’t hang out with a lot of multi millionaires on a daily basis but I do personally know a few of them and in my dealings with these people I consider “ wealthy “ I have found a startling discovery that I never noticed until recently when we have conversations.

@Brie Schmidt It is startling the number of people we come across who really don't care.

There will be the people that it will startle away, and there will be people who might even find it interesting to live near a cemetery.

I'd be startled if this were legal.

Pretty startling since most deals are 5 year deals so that means there is no track record to vet them on.