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Boxkicker, I'm Navy too, and still investing. I have about 7 years to go before retirement. I decided to check my TSP account after you mention that you were almost even... And it turns out that I am about where you are. In fact, this may be my only investment account where I'm almost even...

Congrats to the both of you! I'm 35 now, and was about were you both where 10 years ago. I started out 26K in debt at 21, and did it alone through saving. It does become an addiction, and it does get easier! My parents say that I don't enjoy life enough... I enjoy it just fine, but...

Hmmm..... Haven't heard from OMA since he retired. He must be out somewhere on a beach soaking in the rays. Good for him!

Hi everyone, I've had an interesting experience over the last year, and wanted to share it with everyone. About a year ago, I signed up to a credit monitoring site that provides a monthly credit report/scores. I'm buying a house soon and wanted to make sure that nothing negative appears on...

I'd stop blaming the reporting and start blaming the inadequacies of those writing the laws... All of them, I'm being bi-partisan. Yes, the media can be misleading, but not nearly as misleading and corrupt as those politicians in Washington. Afterall, we have the ability to seek out the truth...

Frugality: We are in complete agreement then. I should have stated so in my original original post. However, if a bailout were to occur, Washington should have legislated it much, much, much better. Sadly, poorly written laws with tons of loop holes are now the norm. With TARP, there are no...

One: Take the post in context... I was talking about drastic changes. Anything would be better than what happened with TARP... I think that its already proven a failure only a couple month later... And I'm not saying it was a failure because the economy hasn't turned around, but because there is...

It's a dam shame... The worst part is (1) the gov't is going to do this sort of thing over and over again only to realize (to late) the monumental mistakes of bailing out companies that should be let to die, and (2) responsible taxpayers are going to be paying for this and no one in Washington...

All, Grep, Thanks for the insight. I think that I'll sit down (again) tonight to dicsuss my wife. After reading the posts above, and other areas on the forum, we may decide to divvy the money up, and choose multiple investment avenues (buy a home to live in, and subsequently rent and invest...

JjIMOh, Grep, It may not have been clear, but I won't be dumping my stock portfolio. In fact, I'll still be contributing as before. My question was more about diversifying into real estate, not whether stocks were still viable. Understandably, when you loose half over what you've been...

deepc, I'll have to look further into how the military pension works. It sounds as though there are alot of cost that eat into it. These costs may also impact my life insurance precepts... I may need more than what a previously thought. As for the investments, I'm still going to...

Hi everyone, This may be slightly different from your average post; but please don’t criticize us… We’ve saved hard to be in this situation (no inherited money, and started loaded in college debt); and even so, I’m loosing sleep over where to go from here. I need some advice from people who...