Author: Nina
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AfterEllen.com Readers — Please Start Here
Welcome AfterEllen.com readers! If this is your first visit to Queercents, then here are a few highlights to introduce you to the site. Queercents is a personal finance blog which means we like to talk about money… to be more precise, we write by serving up daily tips, anecdotes, and epiphanies about spending, saving, earning,…
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Ten Money Questions for Erin Hamilton
All my friends know that I’m like a gay man when it comes to dance music and my love of the remix! So when I was serendipitously introduced to Erin Hamilton I jumped at the chance to interview her. Erin was a fixture on many circuit party stages of the late 90’s and it’s likely…
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The Financial Power of Social Networks
Here’s a guest post from our friends at Family Pride, the national non-profit organization helping to secure family equality for all loving families. Jennifer Chrisler, Executive Director shares these words… We all know the value of a dollar. But few people think about the power of a dollar. Or, say, the power of 500 million…
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How to Pick a Financial Planner
“Never completely trust any trusted advisor.” — Allan S. Roth A few years back Jeanine started using my financial planner. Our advisor is a SmithBarney Certified Financial Planner that I met during a gay business seminar while living in Atlanta ten years ago. She’s not gay, but gay-friendly which is important to me and I’ve…
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GayRealEstate.com – Part 4
GayRealEstate.com is the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. Queercents asked Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of GayRealEstate.com to write a series of articles for the gay and lesbian community. Here is Part 4: Tips for Buying a Condo: Special Issues to Keep in Mind When buying a…
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Asking for a Raise: Who Earns What
“It’s not your salary that makes you rich, it is your spending habits.” — Charles A. Jaffe I’ve written in the past about The Great Divide in Compensation and Equal Pay for Equal Work. The net of both posts: do you want to make big money? Then go work on Wall Street or at a…
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Ten Money Questions for Gay Millionaires Club Founder
Can you fall in love with a rich person just as easily as a poor one? It was this question that led me to Jill Kimmel-Hankoff several months ago when I posted about her Gay Millionaires Club. Jill is the Founder & COO and she has some thought provoking things to say about money, relationships…
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Can Zillow Make Me Move?
“To stand still is to lose, to move is to gain, to change is to grow.” — Gene E. Megiveron Jeanine has been a faithful Zillow user since it launched over a year ago. Every couple of months she checks our Zestimate (their take on our home market value) and is quick to report its…
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WWYD: The Price of a Mistreated Life
In this week’s What Would You Do series, we ask how you would compensate a person for a life incorrectly spent in prison. Recently on NPR, Kathy Lohr interviewed two men who had been wrongly imprisoned for much of their adult lives. She writes, “Calvin Johnson was falsely convicted of rape and received a life…
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GayRealEstate.com – Part 3
GayRealEstate.com is the largest company in the nation representing the rights of queer home buyers and sellers. Queercents asked Jeff Hammerberg, the founder of GayRealEstate.com to write a series of articles for the gay and lesbian community. Here is Part 3: Condo Ownership: An increasingly good investment if you buy smart. For decades — if…
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