2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

August 6, 2011

Interest Charged on Principal for Entire Month when Prepaying Mortgage?

"If you prepay your [FHA] loan on other than the regular installment date, you may be assessed interest charges until the end of that month" This was on a document I had to sign as part of the application package...
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August 8, 2011

July 2011 Net Worth Update (-$5,162)

Assets Jun-11 Jul-11 Change % Cash & Savings $ 52,372.85 $ 47,851.18 $ (4,521.67) -8.63% Taxable Brokerage Accts $ 168,937.06 $ 163,383.13 $ (5,553.93) -3.29% Roth IRAs $ 78,182.70 $ 79,978.05 $ 1,795.35 2.30% Pre-tax Retirement Accts $ 280,705.84...
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August 15, 2011

Thoughts On Buying Another Property In This Environment

We recently put a contract on a property to serve as an expansion to our rental properties. We weren't looking to expand, but an opportunity popped up that was compelling enough for us to make an offer. As we have...
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August 24, 2011

Discovered an Underground Oil Tank During Home Inspection

For the rental property we had under contract, we opted to go ahead and hire our own home inspector despite the property seller making available a home inspection report written by their own home inspector. It turns out it was...
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August 27, 2011

Cash Flow Positive Rental Within 72 Hours

The nervousness of purchasing another piece of real estate in this climate quickly subsided after we closed on the property purchase on a Wednesday and then had a lease signed and started by Saturday. Closing was pretty routine as this...
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August 28, 2011

Hurricane Irene Dampens our Outer Banks Vacation

As luck would have it my parents rented a beach house on the Outer Banks this past week for our entire family. It was our first whole family vacation in at least 10 years. It was good to have the...
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August 31, 2011

Pieces of our Financial Freedom Plan Falling Into Place

One thing I have been pretty vague so far is how we are going to fund our financial freedom. Just because we have a goal to reach a net worth of $2million doesn't automatically mean we will be anywhere close...
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