Recent content by CoolChange

Personal Advocate/Manager This is my major concern, serious decline in my [already slowly diminishing?] faculties with no one to take over day to day household management. I am still seeking a reasonable solution and keep reading these threads hoping someone will share something that I have...

Personally, I use two closed end funds, PHYS and PSLV, for my precious metal holdings at this time. I bought both when precious metal prices were in the dumpster; and, on top of that, their prices were at a decent discount to NAV when I bought.

The thing that I immediately noticed is that the price of this issue seemed to take much longer to recover than many other prefereds during last year's route. Personally, I'd have to spend quite some time digging into this issue and the underlying company before pulling the trigger.

Any chance there is still a plug in there garbage disposal where the dishwasher drain hose is connected? Garbage disposals generally come with that connection blocked for cases when they are being installed in kitchens that do not have dishwashers. This should be removed before attaching the...

Silver I hold silver via PSLV and am attributing it's current price spike primarily to the Reddit crowd (just my gut, no insider knowledge). So, I am probably going to put in some sell orders and take the capitol gains hit to get some of those chips off the table, at least for a while. Note...

It sounds like I got a real bargain the last time I had a CPA review my taxes. I had completed all of the paperwork but was not sure that I had handled some incentive stock options and local taxes correctly. This tax review cost me $85; she only found one deduction that I had taken which was...

Puts for Income Months.in.Wyoming, Congratulations on your 2020 returns, impressive! Thank you for reviving this thread and sharing your pricing strategy. I am just now coming back to my plans for doing something similar since I have accumulated cash in my IRA's (called preferreds...

Do we know yet if this special open enrollment period is going to work just like like regular open enrollment, allowing those with an ACA policy in place to re-shop for 2021 coverage?

Your numbers tell me that you are working because you enjoy something about that work. Some things that I personally miss that you might as well. 1) Working with smart people that you like. 2) Working on hard problems with those people. 3) Something between sense of purpose and just a socially...

Just reiterating some of the best advice from above: Talk to a good local employment lawyer as soon as you are able about your viable avenues at this point. They should be able to give you good advice and be willing to work with you on contingency if you have a strong enough case. Start...

My portfolio goal in RE is to beat inflation, after living expenses, each year. So far, I have easily done this. If I can keep this streak alive, the longer I live, the better my finances will look. Of course, by traditional measures, this also indicates that I waited entirely too long to...

I generally use https://www.kayak.com/trips for anything with complicated itineraries subject to change.

I have similar feelings about flying under the radar but really starting to want a Model 3 or Y. Although, I may wait to see if the Aptera takes off; even though I see no chance of flying under the radar with something like that.

Splp-a I have decided to hold my nose and [hopefully] keep collecting the dividend on this one until it matures, unless I see some kind of huge pop where it starts trading at or above par for some reason. It's not exactly a sleep easy holding; but, the risk/reward until maturity seems...

I have loved living alone in the past, for many of the reasons mentioned above as well as for one that I didn't see, the simple contentment, maybe even joy at times, that I find in solitude. Sojourner's safety and W2R's cost comments are the only real downsides that come to mind. Both would...