What an interesting week last week, now back to the grind of things. Today we received a question from a reader who asks, “Is it too late to get an MBA?” Let us define what the reader considers too late, they consider their mid 40’s too late to obtain the advanced degree. What is his dilemma? Mark is a mid level manager who strives to take that next step but all of the upper echilon have advanced degrees. Some organizations only recruit talent for upper level positions if they have an advanced degree, his organization is one of those. Mark...
After nearly 3 days of inactivity on my part on my blog I am ready to hit the ground running. Wow those last 3 days have been hectic. I woke up Monday morning to find my site acting a little funny. I didn’t think anything of it so I went about the day. Monday night I get home and try to check the site to see some the statistics and how things are going. I get a redirect that takes me to Adfly. First thoughts are this could get expensive. I have only been blogging 2 weeks if this gets...
Well today I had my first experience with Malware. I was not able to post a regularly scheduled post as usual. I woke up this morning to check out the website to find a bunch of popups on the site once I logged in. Talk about shell shock and not having a clue what to do. Thankfully my fellow Yakeziers were there to the rescue with some valuable posts to help me though this debacle. I quickly got on the phone to my hosting company to see if they had any products that they offered for free to help me...
Wow a whole 2 weeks into personal finance blogging and I have to say I love doing it. It has been a great journey thus far. I am building some great friendships with the personal finance blogging community. I have found the Yakezie Network great and everyone is very willing to help out. I learned that with blogging or your spouse you have to give love to receive love. I am out there sharing the love as much as I can with my fellow bloggers. Here is it close to midnight preparing the post after a long day of blogging and...
Well I am not new to the rental property thing but I will tell you how it all started. It all started a few years ago about rental properties when we were looking to move out of our furnished apartment for rental because our landlord was driving us crazy. We were aggressively scouring Craigslist to find an apartment. Well we found an apartment, ground level which means no stairs! We decided to grab it as soon as we saw it; we definitely thought the rent was well below market value. Come to find out the gentleman was getting ready to put...
As I slowly reveal more about myself you will see that I have my hand in a lot of things. I am currently on the board of directors for a local non profit organization that works to promote awareness for endangered structures in the community. In particularly buildings that have historic significance, we are the voice for them so that they are not destroyed to make way for a new house or store or whatever. I was elected in November 2011 as a board member. Since then I have embarked on organizing their membership directory into a usable format in...
What would you suggest as the best course of action in this situation? If you have been following my blog for the great length of time that it has been around, ok since last week, you would know we recently became a two income household. Here is where the story starts: One income, two kids and a wife all on a salary of 100k minus 50k. I was earning close to 50k when we had our second child. We have 2 cars and a mortgage payment but to help offset some of this we have a rental unit in the...
Yesterday I was sitting there pondering the meaning of Valentine’s Day you know very well about me i am MBA student which always focus on MBA study, when it struck me that it must have been made up by retailers to make it through the slow winter months. Well at least here in the Northern part of the United States, it is bitterly cold and we tend to hibernate. I saw earlier today on the National Retail Foundation website that the average person celebrating Valentine’s Day is going to shell out a whopping $126.03. Men will spend about $168.74 compared...
Wow, what a first week, this is really exciting and I love waking up in the morning now to blog again!! A lot of great comments and plenty of feedback received via email. Thank you keep those suggestions coming. I really appreciate it. So, what did I do this week read many, many blogs because once you start reading you can’t stop. Here are a few that I found particularly interesting this week in no particular order: Check out Shaun over at Money Cactus and check out this well written article…it really gets you thinking about what really motivates you???...
I was reading CNN a few weeks back and stumbled across this article. I have to say that the first car I ever owned was my first car a 1990 Chevrolet Cavalier in gunmetal grey, probably my best car as well. My parents came off a lease that we had been driving and my parents bought me my first car. I was 17, it was a used car and had a little over 100,000 miles on it. Being used and having that many miles it had some wear, but that didn’t stop me from falling in love with her. I loved her...
