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    Lightweight Camper made in Quebec

    We recently ordered a teardrop camper from this small company in Quebec: Alto Travel trailers by Safari Condo With options, our trailer will have a dry weight of 2000lbs, and can be pulled by many 6 cylinder cars and suv's. Due to demand, they are now taking orders for delivery into 2017 : /...
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    HSA Confusion for First Timer

    Hello, my apologies if this question has been answered in the past. I couldn't find the answer to our situation: Wife 52 Husband 61 This is our first year we are eligible to contribute to an HSA and I would like to make a lump sum deposit in our accounts for the year. We have separate...
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    Another strike against Financial Advisors

    I thought some here might be interested in this article/podcast of an interview conducted by Todd Tresidder who writes about financial matters (and runs a business providing financial advice). The interview details how much education the typical investment planner/advisor receives, and how the...
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    New post on Retirement Cafe regarding ACA and OOP maximums

    I read about Dick Cotton's blog on this forum and subscribed to his blog a few weeks ago. He has a new post up today about his forays into purchasing health care insurance in NC and how he came to decide upon a policy. Though he is not applying on the exchange, I thought his reasoning on how...
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    Old Stock Certificates

    My father recently passed away, and among his assets we found 350 shares of Dyco Chemical and Coatings, a paint company located in St. Petersburg Florida that is still in existence. The shares were purchased in the late 1970's. After some poking around on the web, I found its symbol, DCOC...
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    ACA when one has no income and is living off of after tax cash reserves

    Hello, everyone. I have been an infrequent poster and ardent admirer of this site since 2006. My husband is getting ready to resign from his job in the medical field in January of 2014, so we will be looking to purchase health insurance from the federal exchange. He is 60 and I am 51. We are...
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    Turbo Tax Question

    I hope I am posting this in the correct forum. I have been preparing our taxes using TurboTax for the past twenty years. This year, for the first time, TurboTax included estimated quarterly tax vouchers for 2011 of $723 each. Our AGI in 2009 was 156K, and increased to 182K in 2010. We did not...
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    Help for a friend

    Long time lurker here, trying to help a recently divorced friend of mine. She has recieved a divorce settlement of ~650K and is 45 yo. She has rolled it all into Vanguard, but it has been sitting in a MM fund for about a month. She's asked me for advice on how to allocate the funds, and is in it...
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