by Sandi Martin | Apr 24, 2013 | Blog, Fee Only Financial Planning, Financial Planners
The point of this post: It makes sense to hire a professional for an essential job you can’t make time to do yourself. Do you take your car to a mechanic? You’re smart. Presumably you can read. Why are you paying someone else to do work that you could...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 19, 2013 | Blog, Fee Only Financial Planning, Financial Planners
“If you were to assume that many experts use their information to your detriment, you’d be right. Experts depend on the fact that you don’t have the information they do. Or that you are so befuddled by the complexity of their operation that you...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 18, 2013 | Accountability, Blog, Personal Financial Planning
The point of this post: being busy doesn’t excuse you from having to pay attention to your money. You know that feeling you get when your to do list is so long that you have to turn pages to see it all? When you’re overwhelmed by the sheer volume of work...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog, Inside the Bank, Relationships
The point of this post: treat the people you’re dealing with like people to reduce the chances of getting screwed by a faceless institution. Also because it’s the right thing to do. I’m going to warn you: all this talk about skepticism is going to...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 10, 2013 | Blog, Debt Management, Inside the Bank, Mortgages
The point of this post: do the work to understand how the mortgage lending system works so you can save the most money. If you want to get the very best interest rate (read: lowest bottom line price) on your mortgage, you need to know how to see yourself the way the...