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Oakland, California Average Rent Data.
Cool interactive site for apartment rent data through out United States. This link is for Oakland, CA.
Mint.com
Excellent online financial management tool, allowing the user to aggregate all accounts (checking, savings, credit card, loans, paypal, etc.) into one interface. Mint can track your expenses, establish budgets, and send you automatic alerts about your accounts. Incredible service for free!
Roth IRA early withdrawals and penalties
Thorough, example-filled review of withdrawing from a Roth IRA early.
How to Get Started with Investing?
Useful list of online resources and books to get started investing.
ING DIRECT USA - Frequently Asked Questions
Solid information on the high-interest checking accounts with no ATM fees from ING Direct.
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ING DIRECT,
P.O. Box 60, St. Cloud, MN 56302-0060
Personal Financial Management
Advice on a variety of ways to save and make money. A number of other sites do a much better job at this than a list of bookmarks so they are noted first, followed by some fantastic online account tools. Tips for cheap transportation, whether to rent or own your home, and finding affordable (men...
Get Rich Slowly
An excellent blog providing ideas, tips, and resources for keeping costs down and savings up.
The Motley Fool isn't Fooling Me
Despite the typos, a well-done piece on how the once excellent Motley Fool has started to suck.
CarBuyingTips.com
"New car buying guide, avoiding dealer scams, new cars, used car buying"
Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership ∞ Get Rich Slowly
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Insurance, property tax (less tax savings), and maintenance, add up to $517 every month that is being “thrown away.”
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Even worse is the amount spent on mortgage interest.
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Data-only iPhone plan for $20/month
Very clever! And if you use VOIP for calls, then you don't ever have to pay for the minutes either.
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I ran into a few $ costing issues playing around with this, first was just to see what it would cost on the Go Plan to load a Safari page. Big mistake - I hadn't read Erica's previous post about this topic, so just to load www.apple.com, it took a $5.40 hit on the card's balance. Now there's not even enough on the original SIM balance to sign up for the $19.95 data without reloading.
Other "gotchya" dings: Further playing with the GoPhone, I used the iPhone's Settings/Phone/AT&T menu to have AT&T send me my balance and my minutes. These are supposedly "no charge" services, but they are not on the GoPhone's Pay As You Go plan. I got dinged another $0.15 for each of the two messages sent. And here's the real hoot - one of the two messages was a message saying "this feature is not supported on GoPhone plans"! LOL. -
My advice to anyone wanting to try this - make sure you use one of the third party Settings apps like Boss Prefs to disable EDGE before you even put in the SIM card. No sense in wasting any money on phantom data checks before signing up for the plan.
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