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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Correct they continue paying interest throughout the period. I got it to Fido and sold it and flipped to a 5.2% money market in one day
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Good luck! Mine came in around week 27. I did call and though they promised nothing when I got a live person it did show up about 5 days later!
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    Moving to Fidelity and going with a simple portfolio.

    Check out Paul Merriman’s 4 fund combo strategy - mix of small and large cap, value and blend. Does well over time and requires no thought or monitoring. I have my Roth assets and youngen’s IRA’s that we help them manage to compliment their company 401ks
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Finally, Lesson Learned And finally Treasury Direct has delivered, almost 29 weeks to transfer the note to our brokerage. I sold it and dropped the proceeds into a Money Market making 1% more than the note until we close in the house. Lesson learned - if you are buying Treasury Notes or...
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Thanks I got this email myself then a second one saying basically, we’re busy, we’ll get to it. Will try calling starting tomorrow to see if that helps at all.
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Thanks agreed we are looking at 3/1 ARMs to bridge us, might even pay to leave the T-Note to maturity if we go the ARM route versus selling it
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Thanks - these are treasury notes and unfortunately they aren’t like the bonds.
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    Treasury Direct Delays

    Has anyone had any experience getting Bills/Notes transferred from Treasury Direct to your brokerage? We purchased a two year treasury Note when we sold our home and then our plans changed and we started building a new home. Now, we need to sell that treasury note before maturity but Treasury...
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    Bought a new iMac today.

    You'll be happy if you switched because the Windows models were always breaking. My wife is a bookkeeper and generally has to replace her Windows Laptops every 2-3 years bc that's just all the gas they have in the tank or sometihing or other stops working and its not worth fixing. I went to...
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    Many many Passwords

    I use Keepass files and Keepass client on MAC and PC, Strongbox client on iPhone and sync the keepass file to all devices through Dropbox. Haven't had any issues and not relying on a company to store my passwords and hope they don't get hacked. The keypads file itself is well encrypted and has a...
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    Generating income off $500k portfolio for non-retiree.

    You can do a combo USHY/SPHY and get ~6% or app 3000-3500 a month very consistent and stable. Think of it as an annuity where you don't have to give away your $500k principal. Funds stay pretty consistent between $34-35 and $21-23 so your not likely to lose much if any principal and should net...
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