Personal Finance Update! and Linky-Linky,too.

April 4, 2011

Yikes. What with family visiting and some or all of us running around at the Cincinnati Homeschool Convention and then all of us visiting the Creation Museum I’ve not only broken my cardinal rule of tracking my daily finances I also never got close enough to my computer long enough to even think about posting [...]

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You ever have one of those days when you feel like all you do is write checks?

March 24, 2011

You know, “checks”? Those paper things? Remember those?
Since we’re renting out our house now instead of selling it and thus continuing our status as homeowners, some checkups have been in order:
Chimney ~ check.

Inspection
Cleaning
Total: $118

Heat Pump ~ check.

Annual Maintenance Fee: $169.00
Leak Found. Leak repaired: $443.00
Drain Pan Treatment: $35.00
Pack of Filters: $84.00
Total: $731.00

Ooch.
That last one took my by surprise. Apparently [...]

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Losing Weight and Losing Debt. What can they learn from each other?

March 22, 2011

I ran into an acquaintance the other day I hadn’t seen in months upon months. When I saw her I inwardly gasped: she had lost so much weight!
We were both attending a 31 Gifts Party that was doubling as a fundraiser for our mutual friend who’s raising money to provide a service dog for their special needs daughter.
Got [...]

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Personal Finance Linky-Linky

March 9, 2011

I figured out why the links weren’t showing in the Personal Finance Updates post! I did everything the way I always have, but the default settings changed. Go figure. So I changed the settings. Wa-la!
If you didn’t link yours because it wasn’t working — go now! I got it all worked out, I pinky-promise.
And [...]

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Numbers are one thing, emotions are another.

March 9, 2011

Or maybe they’re all wrapped up in one? See, now I’ve gotten myself all confused again.
We swore we’d never be long-distance landlords again.
We’re considering renting out our house, something we swore we’d never do.
Some local friends/acquaintances are wanting to move out of the home they are in, for very personal reasons that are none of [...]

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Personal Finance Update… Don’t forget to link yours!

March 3, 2011

Debt Balances as of the End of January 2011:

First Mortgage:  $168,690.79
Credit Card Transfer #1: $22,920.00
Credit Card Transfer #2:  $3,930.03
Rental Property:  $105,719.25

Total Debt:  $301,250.07
This is a difference of -$2,592.63 in principle from the $303,842.70 owed in primary and rental mortgage debt* at the end of January.
*The credit card transfers used to be our second mortgage.
Breakdown of Regular [...]

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I’m so tired of trying to sell this house.

February 21, 2011

That showing scheduled for this morning? Yea. It’s actually tomorrow. My bad. Only it wasn’t. Because the Random Realtor did say Monday. Even Conner backed me up. When I called her (to ask why no one showed) and she said, oh so sweetly, “Oh, Jolyn, did I say Monday? If I did I am soooo [...]

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To change realtors, or not to change realtors. That is the question.

February 18, 2011

We recently took our house off the market, for at least a month.
It was a rather spur-of-the-moment decision. Or maybe “in-the-moment” would be a better description. Because we talked about taking it off over the holidays, and then putting it back on in the Spring. We discussed it and talked to people and ultimately decided not [...]

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Personal Finance Update

February 4, 2011

Whoops-a-daisy. Totally forgot to post this yesterday. So without further ado: OUR NUMBERS:
Debt Balances as of the End of January 2011:

First Mortgage:  $168,888.42
Credit Card Transfer #1: $23,160.00
Credit Card Transfer #2:  $5,753.23
Rental Property:  $106,041.05

Total Debt:  $303,842.70
This is a difference of -$1,514.30 in principle from the $305,357.00 owed in primary and rental mortgage debt* at the end of [...]

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How are your numbers looking?

February 2, 2011

Just a little inspiration for you to find out *just in case* you’re still planting your head in the sand. (You know who you are.)
Tomorrow I’ll be posting our own Financial Particulars and opening up the linky-linky for you all to share your own. Slowly but surely more of you are sharing your numbers and your [...]

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