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Moving Tips for Your New Residency, Fellowship, or Job

April 16th, 2009

It’s getting close to July and that means that many of you will be moving to begin your new residency, fellowship, or real-life job – Congratulations!  With that next step, though, comes the process of moving all your earthly belongings on to your new residence.  Andrea and I are performing a pre-wedding move right now, [...]

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9 Ways for Medical Students to Begin Building Wealth

March 19th, 2009

Happy Match Day 2009!  Hopefully you got into your choice of programs and can now relax and enjoy your last couple months as a med student.   This post should help those of you who just matched and those of you who still have a couple years of school left to begin on your path towards [...]

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Rent vs. Buy for New Medical Residents and Fellows

March 4th, 2009

It’s getting close to match day where those fourth year medical students amongst us will have their next 3-4 years decided for them.  It was a crazy time for Andrea and I not knowing where she would end up for the next three years, but we got through it when she got her second choice [...]

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Free Annual Access to Your Financial History

February 23rd, 2009

How Corporations Make Financial Decisions About You
Since we live in a society where not everyone knows your name nor your reputation, trust is a hard thing to come by.  For example, when you apply for a loan, the bank doesn’t know you or your past financial history.  Similarly, insurance companies don’t know you personally and [...]

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The Best Available Checking Account

February 16th, 2009

Andrea and I both have mySmart Cash accounts from Fidelity.  After much research, this account seems to fit all of our needs very well.  Here are some of the benefits:

Links seemlessly with our Fidelity joint brokerage account that we use for our joint expenses
If one of us were to overdraft our checking accounts, funds pull [...]

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