meamemg

meamemg t1_j2fd52o wrote

Mortgage, taxes, and insurance are about $1400. So rent would give you $600 to $1000. That's best case assuming no vacancies, nothing breaks, and not factoring in the cost of you or your family's time to manage the place.

Or you could sell, and get $80-100k. Even in a CD or bank account that would get you $300-$400 a month in interest. If you invested, it would potentially earn you more.

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meamemg t1_j2fby7o wrote

  1. Won't generally care
  2. Usually they give you a check that you write and mail to the old credit card, but some can do it online now.
  3. Same as any new credit card: hard inquiry plus lowers average age of account. Also will increase your utilization while you have the credit card balance.
  4. Usually there is a fee for doing a balance transfer. How much is this ones? Also, you will still have to make minimum payments on the card even while at 0%APR
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meamemg t1_j2f4ggl wrote

Rule of thumb is 1x income in retirement accounts by 30 and 2x by 35.

You can’t contribute to a former employer 401k or an inherited IRA, so those aren’t options.

Inherited IRAs require distributions from them. You should check with the manager and make sure those are being handled.

Take a look at the article on “rollovers” in the wiki in the sidebar for what to do with the old 401k.

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meamemg t1_j29htok wrote

What was the weather this past couple months versus last year? If colder that could cause it.

Does your provider allow you to look and track usage by day/hour? Some do on the website. That could help identify the issue.

See https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/q8gadf/comment/hgpcfvr/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 who had a similar problem and some advice.

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meamemg t1_iyczx0z wrote

Yes. Your friend should be able to send a letter on fancy letter head that says pay up or else. Hopefully that gets their attention and resolves it. Anything beyond that you probably want to switch to a lawyer who specializes in this stuff.

Alternatively, you might be able to convince the insurance company to pay you directly and take it out of their next payment to Quest. The insurance companies contact with Quest should allow for that.

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meamemg t1_iuj6g3t wrote

I think it is important to talk about inflation currently/recently in a nuanced way. We've seen periods of high inflation before. What made the recent/current period different, is we had negative real interest rates. That is, bank rates didn't go up to match inflation. But like you said, it doesn't change too much of the standard advice.

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meamemg t1_iuih5z6 wrote

Between the premium difference and the HSA contribution (which you only get on the HDHP), you save $824 on the HDHP right out of the box. So until you have $1,824 (PPO deductible+$824 savings) the HDHP will be cheaper. And if you max out your HSA, that would be another probably $600-$1000+ in tax savings.

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