This is the most basic budget question.  My wife and I use Mint.com to track our finances and we just finished sitting down and looking at our spending for the year.  This gives a really good place to start for a budg...

Economic Update(Happy Martin Luther King Day)

Predictions for 2021? As 2020 has shown us, the world can throw so many curveballs at you that predictions can be about as useful as new year’s resolutions. In that s...

Economic Update(Monday, February 22, 2021)
The minutes from the Federal Open Market Committee’s Jan. 26-27 meeting, released last week (after their customary three-week delay), show that members of the Committee ...

I went to a meeting two nights ago and heard a pitch for startup money. The basics of it were if you have a credit score of 680 or higher you can get up to $150,000 for a 10% flat fee up front and 0% interest for the ...

Economic Update
(Monday, June 14, 2021)
For a period of time between 2018 and the beginning of 2020, the “Real House Price Index” (which calculates inflation in the Housing Sector) was falling, because Americans’ bu...

So, I have a big beautiful newly renovated flat in a good location that I listed a little over a week ago. I have good pictures, a nice video (uncommon for my area), am priced below the competition, and have my listin...

I went to look at a potential flip this afternoon. The house is in great shape other than the fact that the whole house is covered in a layer of mold! At first when I step in, I thought it was just dirty, so the fl...

I am attempting to lay out my financial path to semi-retirement (i.e. leaving my current w2 for something less time consuming/more enjoyable) within 10 years or less.I can identify my family's spending now and what I ...

Hello BP Community! A group of investors and myself are looking to diversify into the short term rental market. Our focus is an STR out in the ski resort areas of Colorado. In particular, we’d like to focus our attent...