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    Home buying thread

    OK my fellow FoH financiers, I"d like some input to double check my own work. My wife and I are looking at buying our first home. We have enough cash in the bank to put 20% down -OR- to pay for my tuition in cash over the next 2.5 years. Which option is the most financially advantageous...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Cash is king. Classic working capital/liquidity crisis.
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    Salary Negotiation

    I just accepted my new position as well under almost the exact same situation. I asked for X+20, the came back with X+10, I countered with X+15, we settled at X+12.5. They gave some explanation about they have a matrix and bands for salary for each level etc and thats why they were hesitant to...
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    Salary Negotiation

    Here"s a question for the group: Should a prospective employerexpectyou to openly tell them how much money you make now? Is this a legitimate question or is it just a way for them to determine how much they think you will accept?
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    Salary Negotiation

    So all this derailing aside.... I am expecting an offer letter today or tomorrow. They asked me what I am currently making, to which I honestly replied. I immediately commented that given the level, location and requirements of this new position I would be expecting a fair bit more (about 20k...
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    Home buying thread

    That is a pretty easy to use tool with a fair amount of customization. I am going to have to agree with your assessment on the topic though. One of the variables with the most sensitivity in that tool is the annual return on investments. It is assuming that a) you actually can earn that on...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Something I can"t seem to wrap my head around is how to you buy a piece of property (using debt) and end up taking in enough profit to actually make a living? The payment on a ~300k at 6 - 6.5% mortgage is in the neighborhood of $2200 a month and where I live you can only fetch about 1700 a...
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    Adventures with lyrical - buying a business

    Very cool indeed. I am young (23) and on track to go to B-School sometime in the next couple of years. I always have had my eye on starting my own business but my roadblocks have always been 1) Financial and 2) Risk. The risk manifests itself in terms of "is my idea good enough to actually...