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When Do You NEED a Financial Planner?
“In real life, events seem much less dramatic.” — Jessica Savitch Last week I wrote a post about how to pick a financial planner and a few people asked how you know when you NEED a financial planner. This is a good question. Recently, I spoke with Jennifer Hatch, President of Christopher Street Financial, a…
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WWYD: Amend or Ignore?
We’re getting closer and closer to the 2007 tax deadline. As I was doing my own tax return I got to thinking — what sort of change would I need to make to a prior year’s return that would warrant filing an amended return? In looking at the IRS FAQ It states: If you did…
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Are You Putting Yourself on Sale?
I’ve recently started reading (the audiobook version) Suze Orman’s Women & Money book. You can expect I will expound upon what I learn as well as my vast opinions in the coming weeks. Most recently I wrote the post “Don’t Put Yourself on Sale” over at my Coaching4Lesbians blog. In it I talk about the…
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GayRealEstate.com – Part 5
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 5: Buying a Home? Understand Private Mortgage Insurance We are so accustomed — or conditioned…
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Money Mondays: Benefits of Home Ownership
I was raised to believe adult life follows a specific course. You meet your love, get married, buy a house and raise kids… in that order. We’ll it hasn’t quite gone that way. I fell in love, we bought a house, then registered our domestic partnership (as close to marriage as we can get at…
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Where to Live: Gay Ghetto or Integrated Neighborhood
“A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.” — Aristotle In the March 27, 2007 issue, The Advocate named the Best Places for Gays and Lesbians to Live. Click over to read the article and get the skinny on these cities and some surprising small towns. The Top Ten Places are…
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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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There’s Money in the “Monthlies”
Gentlemen, if the functions of a woman’s body make you queasy, avert your eyes now. You have been warned! And ladies, if you would like to know how anti-gay and anti-women Proctor & Gamble (P&G) is milking you out of thousands of dollars in your lifetime, read on. While some of us may view our…
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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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Sleeping With Money: Don’t Let Romance Cloud Your Financial Vision
Way back in the day when I was young and in love for the first time I didn’t let money get in the way of impressing my girl or simply doing what I wanted. I was fresh out of college, in love and in the process of coming out to myself (and each other since…
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