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October 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
I feel that the last few days of October kind of ruined the whole month for investors. Even though the Dow closed above the physiologically important, but symbolic 10,000 mark for the first time in a year in October, the stock market sold off in the second half of the month. Major indices closed October [...]
Now We Really Sold Our House
It’s official. The house in New Jersey where we called home for more than five years is no longer our property.
Four months after we put the house on the market, the sale of the house was officially closed today. Though we haven’t got the money yet, all the paperwork are signed and the keys of [...]
September 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
Another solid month is in the books.
September didn’t turn out to be the month of market sell-off as I heard from some predictions when the month began. To the contrary, September was a good month for stock investors with all major indices finishing the month in positive territories: The Dow gained 2.2% for the month, [...]
How We Saved Money when Moving
Early last month, we moved from New Jersey to Virginia due to job changes. It was by far the longest relocation we had and a very stressful event because we basically had to deal with everything ourselves, from searching a new place in VA to the eventual 250-mile move. When all was done, we found [...]
Hello Virginia!
How was your Labor Day long weekend? Did you enjoy the last holiday of the summer?
For us, the past three days were probably the busiest and crazies days in a long time (and that’s why I didn’t post anything since Saturday).
Ever since we decided to move to Virginia because of my wife’s job change, we [...]
August 2009 Score Card — Part I: Net Worth
Another good month is in the books. Though the August performance isn’t as good as July, it’s still good enough to push our net worth to another all-time high, which is pretty exciting. The gain in August is the sixth in a row since March. Comparing to the returns of the stock market last month [...]
“When It Rains, It Pours”
I think this describes the best how we feel right now, but it’s all good.
Our agent says “Things are heating up!” and they really are.
This time last week, we were worried that we may have to leave our house on the market, hoping either to sell it if we are lucky or rent it out [...]
We Sold Our House!
That’s the good news . The bad news is the final price, after all the costs and cashback (no including the upgrade we did), is likely to be lower than the price we paid 5 years ago when we bought the house . But in this environment, we are still happy [...]
July 2009 Score Card — Part II: Investment Portfolio
I should have done this last month for the mid-year checkup, but didn’t get time to record all the data and I had to delay the update to this month.
In the past, I have reviewed our investments, mainly taxable stock and mutual fund investment. The reason I skipped retirement investments before is that some of [...]
House and Rent Update
Our house has been on the market for nearly two months already and we still don’t have a buyer. Things were looking pretty good when we received an offer in the third week. However, it failed to go through as we were not able to reach an agreement with the potential buyer, even though we [...]
