2million's Personal Finance Blog

My Journey to Financial Freedom

November 14, 2005

If You use Wachovia, Watch Out!

Looking for Wachovia's routing number? Your not alone - it turns out there are several valid routing numbers for Wachovia a result of mergers and acquisitions. Over the weekend I ran into a problem trying to perform transactions with my...
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May 10, 2007

Wachovia $5.95 fee for Auto-Sync with Financial Software

A couple of months ago Wachovia sent out a small notice that they will begin charging clients with their "Free Checking" account a $5.95 monthly access fee for Direct Sync Access for financial software like MS Money & Quicken starting...
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May 17, 2007

Wachovia Personal Finance Software $5.95 Fee Can Be Waived

Wachovia's Web site allows account holders to email customer service requests. I decided to send a request to see if I could get the $5.95 fee for downloading personal financial software transactions removed from my account. I started with this...
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December 6, 2007

Wachovia Teller Transaction Service Fee

I checked my Wachovia checking account balance the other day and noticed I got hit with a $8 "Service Fee" charge at the end of the month that I had never seen before. The description for the Service Fee was...
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April 3, 2008

2007 Passive Income Review

Where are we at with our passive income? After all this is just as important as measuring our net worth, if we can't generate enough income to pay for our living expenses, that we won't be financially free no matter...
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March 2, 2009

2008 Passive Income Review

Where are we at with our passive income? After all this is just as important as measuring our net worth, if we can't generate enough income to pay for our living expenses, that we won't be financially free no matter...
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April 21, 2009

Managing Our Spending With Big Ticket Item List

My wife and I are slowly getting adjusted to our single income status. Given our life situation with a new house and baby on the way, there are plenty of wants and needs for us to go around. One way...
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May 25, 2009

Our Current Focus For Cash Flow

I had meant to post this a couple months ago, but figure it still has some relevance. I have been wrestling with where to put our monthly cash flow. Its smaller now than it was when we had 2 incomes,...
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