Forum: FIRE and Money
12-04-2020, 02:27 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 6,395
Calif. Population
In 2019 Calif. lost 653,000 people and gained 480,000 people with a net loss of 173,000. A piddling number in a population of about 40 million residents.
I have compared many other states and...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
11-25-2020, 10:37 PM
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Replies: 109
Views: 6,395
California
I live in California, which everyone thinks is so expensive. Well, check the numbers. We have proposition #13. I am paying very low taxes compared to the current valuation of my house (actually...
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Forum: COVID-19 | Containment Area
07-10-2020, 06:16 PM
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Replies: 64
Views: 4,208
Country House
I live near San Francisco and worked for years in entertainment industry. It was pretty intense at times so I sought out a get-away. Took awhile but I found a country property about 2.5 hours north...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
11-05-2019, 06:49 PM
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Replies: 60
Views: 6,626
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Forum: Other topics
08-02-2019, 05:21 PM
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Replies: 92
Views: 5,697
Diving into Movies
I quit a perfectly good job to work for a relatively new movie company. Turned out well because the movie was, "Star Wars".
The scariest part was, after 20yrs, I wrote a book about it. Tough to...
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Forum: Life after FIRE
07-01-2019, 09:58 PM
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Replies: 3,481
Views: 463,973
Matching Monitor Image to Printer Output
I have been struggling to make the images I see in Photoshop on my Samsung monitor closely match the photo prints from my Canon Pixma 100 printer.
I spent the last several days working with a...
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Forum: Life after FIRE
05-14-2019, 08:35 PM
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Replies: 3,481
Views: 463,973
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Forum: Other topics
01-04-2019, 06:19 PM
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Replies: 71
Views: 4,248
Old VHS
I wouldn't be too quick to throw out all those VHS tapes. When the rights to the music on some of these films ran out studios never sent them to DVD because re-reacquiring those rights was too...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
01-26-2013, 09:10 PM
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Replies: 47
Views: 7,091
ReFi
Closed a Penfed 30yr fixed about three weeks ago at 3.375. Took a long time start to finish, about 90 days from first inquiry.
The good: best rate I could find on a second home, all done through...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
01-25-2013, 08:02 PM
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Replies: 13
Views: 1,873
Penfed
Closed a Penfed 30yr fixed about three weeks ago at 3.375. Took a long time start to finish, about 90 days from first inquiry.
The good: best rate I could find on a second home, all done through...
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Forum: Life after FIRE
11-27-2012, 09:13 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,050
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Forum: Life after FIRE
11-27-2012, 08:00 PM
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Replies: 4
Views: 1,050
Collecting Electric Trains
One of my hobbies is collecting old electric trains. Most of these are either Lionel, American Flyer, or Ives from the 1920's and 1930's.
Recently I have started a web page with lots of photos....
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Forum: FIRE and Money
10-24-2012, 09:19 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 33,714
Thanks
Thanks to Wahoo.
Well I guess all those guys driving around with their tailgates down are losing mileage. This is what I thought from what I have read.
Warning, don't ever tell these guys about...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
10-24-2012, 08:10 PM
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Replies: 375
Views: 33,714
Tail gates
Here's one I hope someone can confirm or at least add info to. Some time ago I read an article by an automotive engineer who said that it actually reduces your gas mileage on a pick-up truck to drive...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
10-17-2012, 08:59 PM
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,872
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-15-2012, 02:48 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,273
Answer
"It is NOT owner occupied. Was this your situation as well? What interest ratehttps://images.intellitxt.com/ast/adTypes/mag-glass_10x10.gif (https://www.early-retirement.org/forums/#) were you able to...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-14-2012, 08:46 PM
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,273
Harp 2
Just completed a Refi using the Harp 2 program. It took four months but was successful. Saved about $300 a month on a rental property that is under water.
If you are wondering if this can be done,...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-18-2011, 08:53 PM
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Replies: 50
Views: 4,218
Capital
To call the greatest capitalist of our time a socialist, now that is funny.
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-18-2011, 10:33 AM
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Replies: 50
Views: 4,218
How they don't pay.
"Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as "carried interest", thereby getting a bargain 15 percent tax rate. Others own...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
04-17-2011, 10:35 PM
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Replies: 77
Views: 11,853
Statements
Based on FUEGO's statements I would think that a slightly closer look at his world would yield far more shady things than so far revealed.
The funny thing is, that the cops and the IRS are looking...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
04-17-2011, 09:45 PM
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Replies: 70
Views: 6,730
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Forum: Life after FIRE
10-21-2010, 08:36 PM
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Replies: 49
Views: 4,320
Twenty Somethings
Any one else ever get the 20-something, "condescending attitude"? I thought this went away after my friend Tom finally confronted his daughter's boyfriend with, "Son, do you know what I do for a...
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Forum: Life after FIRE
09-21-2010, 11:04 PM
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Replies: 46
Views: 4,535
Glass of Water
How many of you have a glass of water by your bed? Mine is there now, but wasn't there when I was in my thirties.
So. what's the deal?
Are we drying out or what?
boont
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-12-2010, 10:29 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,057
I guess the thing that bothers me is, how do I...
I guess the thing that bothers me is, how do I know, for sure, that the people that I am about to payoff, actually hold the loan.
They have produced no documents, they have no records, I don't...
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Forum: FIRE and Money
08-12-2010, 06:13 PM
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Replies: 21
Views: 3,057
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