On Our Lending Club Anniversary We’ve Recieved 12% Interest
I heard about Lending Club from a good friend who had been investing there for about six months. His returns had been nice so I decided to give it a shot. Katy and I invested $2500 and I’ve been astounded at the interest rate I’ve received. May 4th marked the one year anniversary of opening my account so I thought I should write about how it is going. We’ve received 11.94% interest on our investments. That’s pretty epic! The S&P...
At Least 20 of My Favorite Internet Marketing Resources
Each of the following is something awesome that I felt compelled to save over the last three years. Most of them are marketing related, some are about web design, and some are just generally interesting in some way. Hope you enjoy! SERP Snippet Optimizer – If you’re doing SEO you need to write good titles and descriptions. This tool lets you see what they’ll look like. Google Analytics Advanced Segmentation Guide – this guide from...
Buying Your First House – A Guide Based on our Recent Adventure
Buying a house was daunting since I didn’t really know anything about it, so I’ll try to communicate some of the process here, in my longest blog post ever. Between getting pre-approval, to selecting an agent, visiting houses, choosing a lender, and getting through escrow, there’s a lot to learn. Before You Do Anything Figure out what kind of house you want, make lists, draw on a map where you’re willing to live, figure out how much...
Before and After: Basement
We got the kitchen floor resurfaced...
Our New House!
We just got a house. We started talking about it at the end of summer, just lightly planning. We got serious in November, and started interviewing a few real estate agents. In the end we picked some that were referred by Erika, who bought a house in the last couple of years. Check out our review of James and Jennifer. We were pretty happy. We visited the place on December 22nd, which for you right-brain artistic types is the three...
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