Personal Finance and Investing

Most people have a frequent flier account of some sort, even if they haven’t given it much thought lately. Others have made collecting points and miles not just their hobby, but their passion. While the rest of us sit in awe of extreme couponers when they save a few hundred dollars off of their groceries, these extreme mileage hackers regularly earn tens of thousands of dollars worth of travel. They fly around the world in first and business class, stay in suites at luxury resorts, and barely pay a fraction of what these services would normally cost.

I recently attended a weekend seminar where many of the top mileage collectors in the world gathered to tell their stories and share their techniques. O

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Whew.

Its been a whirlwind of a past year or so (moved, got married, tons of other crazy stuff), but its time I got back to writing about my life, cause its still pretty darn interesting.

Which isnt good.

I really want a boring life sometimes. I mean its great that I love my work and business, and I absolutely adore being married, but its been too much change the past 18 months. My business has been up and down, and back down again, but with potential to be back up again soon (hopefully).

Ive been able to keep paying down my mom debt slowly (I send her $1,000 every month).

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To find the best credit cards you need to compare many offers. This can be a confusing task. The average person is inundated with so many credit card options, but the selection of the best out of it can be facilitated.

Consider that the credit limit is not the most important factor. Read more…

There is no time like the new year to take the initiative on resolving tax problems. Dennis and Ramona came to Blue Tax with a balance of $31,000 for the State. They did not believe they owed this money. Blue Tax needed to figure out why Dennis and Ramona were being told they owed so much money to the State.

Blue Tax set an immediate goal to find out why these taxpayers owed so much money to the State and to resolve their account, quickly and efficiently. After a few initial calls to the state, Blue Tax found out that the reason behind the huge outstanding balance was due to filing issues. Read more…