I’m serious; if you’ve got the time and a big truck let’s fire it up. I absolutely hate the fact that they think I want a phonebook. Did they ever ask me? No. Did I ever ask them to give me one? No. Well this is an open letter […]

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The week had some good posts that saw some good traffic including demystifying the subprime crisis, dumping the National Income tax for a National Sale tax, and the “selling” of annuities trap. The sites that really got me inspired this week are:
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I’ve actually had this quote listed in my “to write” column for quite sometime but hadn’t yet thought how to structure the post but I think it is VERY relevant to the theme on this site…
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I haven’t really been paying attention to the student loan dilemma since the fed dropped the interest rates again, but not being in the educational sector doesn’t mean it’s not going to have impact on our economy nonetheless…
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So in buying my new house a year and 1/2 ago, I wasn’t aware of property taxes. And after paying them in my closing costs for the first part of the year last year, I neglected the 2nd half of the payment ending last year, and only realized it when I got the late […]

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So I was listening to Jesse Ventura talk this morning on the Adam Carolla show, he mentioned that he’s all in favor of abolishing the current tax implementation and introducing a standard “National Sales Tax”. At first I thought it sounded like a pretty bad idea, but then I got to thinking, and googling; which […]

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Dan Crittenden is an experienced and top producing Mortgage Banker/ Mortgage Broker specializing in real estate financing and home mortgage loans throughout the State of Washington and the United States.
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So it’s the half year “weeklies” post - a milestone to be set for sure. I’ve had some good response out of these “weekly roundups” and I thought I’d take a moment to answer a quick question as to why I do it that “Jeff” sent in.
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So I had a “financial advisor” from Hartford mutual back in my “younger days” (Dec2007) that sold me a Life Insurance policy and then proceeded to tell me the next thing I needed on my ordered list of investments was a deferred annuity. She said it was very stable and something I really should […]

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