Well, it’s been two weeks since the last update and in the last fourteen days about 305 homes in San Mateo County were listed on Redfin. This time 59 homes qualified as home sellers in trouble. This is nearly 20% of all the new listings in San Mateo! Quite a few of these homes are marked as lender owned. Here are some highlights.
Entries from November 2007 ↓
San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble #6 — 11/05/07 to 11/18/07 — Nearly 20% of New Listings In Trouble
November 19th, 2007 — Silicon Valley, Foreclosures, Wealth, Value, Housing, Mortgage, United States, Personal Finance, Investing, Real Estate, San Mateo, Global Economy, Money
Weekend Blog Carnival Roundup!
November 17th, 2007 — Roundups, Carnival of Money Stories, Carnival of Personal Finance, Personal Finance, Money, Saving, Uncategorized
This week there were some great carnivals as usual. First there is the All Women Blogging Carnival at Red Sultana where my article about selling eggs was included. Being the nerd I am I really liked this article about bird migration.
Next there is The Carnival of Personal Finance #126. In this carnival I wrote about speed interviewing. A couple articles I would like to highlight is Scrabble and Personal Finance: 8 Lessons from Tiles at Blueprint for Financial Propsperity and Soup Parrish’s Ground Rules for his retirement at age 24. I really love Scrabble and I love how Jim put together his experiences in a game into lessons for personal finance. Soup Parrish is a friend of mine and he is trying an interesting experiment in retiring on $75,000 in San Francisco. I would like to see how he does. I have told him that realistically he can’t retire on $75,000 here in the Bay Area, but he has a set of rules that lets him generate other income too. Check out his blog at The Retirement Hobo.
Finally, there is the Carnival of Money Stories at Being Frugal. I like Lynnae’s blog a lot and this week my article about Asian parents has been included. I also really liked this story about gifts for children by Betsy Teutsch. It’s pretty true that kids don’t like presents like stocks and bonds because they can’t really play with it.
That’s all for this week!
California Dreamin’ — Incentive Stock Options and the Silicon Valley Workerbee
November 16th, 2007 — Careers, Silicon Valley, Wealth, Entrepreneurship, United States, Global Economy, Investing, Personal Finance, San Mateo, Money
If I had a nickel for everytime I heard the phrase “if we go IPO…”, I could probably buy a nice video game. I have been working in private companies since I graduated college and everywhere I go engineers are dreaming of their companies going IPO and becoming the next Google. I am sorry to be a party pooper but the fact is that very few companies become public, and even if they do it’s very unlikely that rank and file workerbees like me would become fabulously rich. These are the lessons I have learned about stock options and I would like to list the reasons why most people don’t become rich off them.
8 Holiday Shopping Tips from The Baglady
November 15th, 2007 — Spending, United States, Saving, Life, Money
More than one person has asked me if I have any holiday shopping tips and so I decided to write an article here since a lot of my friends read this blog anyway. Hopefully these tips will help you save money and cut down your stress.
My First Holiday with a Huge Family
November 13th, 2007 — Relationships, Marriage, Love, Personal Finance, Saving, Money
I come from a fairly small family. Each of my parents has one sister and each family has an only child. So basically I have a total of four uncles and aunts and two first cousins and only one aunt’s family is here in the Bay Area. The holidays usually involves a dinner or two with my aunt’s family and a few other family friends. Now that I am married I suddenly gained at least two dozen or so fairly immediate family members here in the Bay Area. It is kind of interesting and fun to me, but I hear from many people with huge families that the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year. I suppose it makes sense because the more people there are in a family there is more likely to be disagreements. Also, having a big family may be a financial burden if you are supposed to throw a feast and bring everyone gifts.
