Personal Finance (Not Investing) • From a Scale of 1 to 10, how will I do...
I’m currently renting and paying $2,150/month. Salary is in the low six figures with a potential 12% bonus. I save 10% of my salary in a 401K, and my employer matches an additional 5%. My net worth is...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • From where should I pull my money to...
My wife and I have found a house that we would like to buy and move into as our final house. It has everything we need and want (ie no need for upgrades or renovations) so we would like to move on it...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Episode 71: Matt Hougan discusses...
https://bogleheads.podbean.com/e/episod ... ick-ferri/ This is the clearest explanation of blockchain and its uses I've heard. "Episode 71: Matt Hougan discusses the basics of blockchain and...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • NVDA Windfall: How much to sell?
After seeing all the chatter about NVDA, I decided to check our investments. We bought this stock years ago for about $700. I was pretty shocked to see that it is now worth almost $300K! It is now a...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Early Retirement portfolio review
Our portfolio for BH review (questions below):Emergency funds-not part of retirement assets: 150K (Vanguard money market and ST T-Bills)Debt: ZeroTax Filing Status: Married Filing JointlyTax Rate: 22%...
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Personal Finance (Not Investing) • HDHP way more expensive (HSA eligible)
I am currently evaluating different health insurance plans for my family (myself + 2 dependents). Looking at my employer-sponsored plans, all plans are free for me but I pay full price for my...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Morningstar : Reverse mortgages-Wade...
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t ... 0660217081I found this pretty interesting. Reversing mortgages is an area I know little about other than people seem to be leery of them. They made some...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Newly "Retired" and have done poor job of...
I am 61 years old and recently separated from my company. Severance can run me to roughly 62 (Sept, 2025)My basic question is whether I should do a bond ladder ranging from 2029 to 2046 to provide a...
View ArticlePersonal Finance (Not Investing) • Best Auto liability insurance to consider
Hi all,I don't own a car and hence don't have auto insurance. So, whenever I rent car from rental company or even Zipcar, I end up getting liability insurance from them.Instead, I am exploring buying...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Internet security question
A good friend's schizophrenic son went off his meds a few days ago. He then posted a video on youtube saying lots of terrible stuff about his mother and giving her name, address and phone number. He...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Any value in adding gold or TIPS
Hi I’m a 40 year old moderately aggressive investor. Most of my assets are in low cost stock index funds in retirement accounts. I also have Roth and 529s for kids and a smaller brokerage account. As...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Best Place for New Car Batteries w/Installation
Any recommendations for: (1) battery type, and (2) where to have a new battery installed.l? This is for a Toyota Corolla.I’m not a DIYer on batteries, so I’ll leave it to the pros to install.I was...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Help me understand why Vanguard target date funds...
I think this is the 2nd or 3rd time I've seen this happen with this 401k - this time, a notice from Vanguard saying the Target Retirement Trust Plus will be replaced by the Target Retirement Trust...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Maui Vacation
Any of you been recently and have any recommendation for restaurants (formal and mom and pop style sit down) and any beaches near wailea with no waves or minimal for my 3 year old. thank...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Best Retirement Calculator
I know this question has probably been asked a ton, but I had trouble tracking anything down in the search.I have tried the popular ones (New Retirement and the Fire one), but am looking for a free...
View ArticlePersonal Consumer Issues • Hiring Journeyman Level vs Master Level...
Being a new home owner, there are some minor maintenance and changes I'd like to make.For plumbing, this include a1) adding shut-off valves to various intakes under the sink and a2) fixing a minor...
View ArticleInvesting - Theory, News & General • Help me retire in 5 years
Im married with kids under 8.only have 64k eidl loan and no other debtsown my home and cars .my vanguard personal account is @712k traditonal Ira is at 129k.'I can invest 135k to my personal for next...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • An initial plan for someone in their 40's
Trying to help a family member with a plan for retirement. The person is in their 40's. They have 403b, and a pretty good job. I don't know how much they have saved up. They are not that investment...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • My portfolio consolidation plan - thoughts?
Hi everyone,I was pretty lazy over the past 5 years and haven't been keeping up with the forums like I used to, but recently I'm reading daily again and am ready to consolidate and clean up our...
View ArticlePersonal Investments • Approaching retirement: should I take a 403b tax hit...
Appreciate Boglehead input.Single mom, 59, with 403b of 1.7mn after years of saving. Planning retirement at 65. Estimating that I will be close to 95% of my current income for retirement (low...
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