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Current Bank & Broker Promotion Bonuses
If you are looking for a little incentive to open a bank or brokerage account, there are a few promotions currently running which will give you as much as $50 bonus for a single new account. Check them out. Maybe there’s something you need
TradeKing $50 bonus for a new account: Open an account [...]
PineCone Research Sign Up Link Is Back
Just got an email from PineCone Research with a new sign up link.
To become a PineCone Research panel member and get paid for completing online surveys, use this latest registration link to sign up. And, like always, you have to act quickly before the line expires. If you are not familiar with PineCone Research, check [...]
Invest Directly with Lending Club
I have been quite active in investing with Lending Club since February. However, for months, I can only buy loans on the secondary market because of Lending Club’s residence restriction which prohibits residents of New Jersey from lending directly. Though I was able to buy some notes at discount early on, most of the notes [...]
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 [...]
College Advantage $25 Referral Bonus Is Back
If you missed CollegeAdvantage’s bonus offer early this year, you can get it now.
Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 Savings Plan, which was named by Morningstar one of the best college savings plans in April, is running the promotion program again. If you are interested in opening a 529 account with CollegeAdvantage and receiving the bonus (and make [...]
Lending Club $2500 Giveaway
Are you using Lending Club? If not, then here’s your chance to win $2,500.
The popular peer-to-peer lending site is going to have its 25,000th investor some time this month. To celebrate this milestone, Lending Club announced yesterday that the 25,000th registered investor will receive a total of $2,500 cash from LC!
I started investing with Lending [...]
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 [...]
What Is FHA Loan?
The process of selling our house is moving forward. This morning, our attorney told that the attorney review has completed and now the house is officially under contract. The buyer will do the home inspection this weekend. After that we will move to Virginia and leave the house and all other matters to our agent, [...]
Surprise! Ally Bank Increases Savings Account Rate
Well, this really comes as a surprise because I have already gotten used to Ally Bank’s endless adjustments of the rates of their banking products. I was so pissed by the bank’s weekly rate reduction (yes, a rate change here or there every week) that I left Ally Bank only a couple of weeks after [...]
“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 [...]
Zecco Bonus Code for 20 Free Trades
Popular online discount broker Zecco Trading is running a promotion which offers 20 commission free stock trades, a $90 value, to all new brokerage customers who sign up by Sunday, September 13, 2009!
Zecco is one of the brokers which I have an account with and I have written about it quite frequently here (read my [...]
