Regular Accidental FIRE readers know I have a background in GIS and mapping and that I constantly scour the web for cool mapping tools. Being this is primarily a personal finance blog I have a special place in my dorky...
The U.S. housing market is on a tear and not looking back. Usually when unemployment rises and the economy slows, housing prices suffer. Not this time. Of course there’s nothing normal about the jump in unemployment from March and the...
Regular readers know I’m always on the hunt for great mapping tools that show various aspects of finance in a geographic way. I even have an entire page dedicated to geoarbitrage resources and tools to help you find a better...
It was September 2001 and I was living in a tiny 500 sq. ft. basement apartment of a big house in the suburbs of Washington D.C. My $40,000 a year salary placed me slightly below the median income in America,...
On Tuesday I posted about the state of housing in America. In today’s post I want to give you more resources and tools to help you understand regional and geographic trends in housing costs. After all, many of you are...
The Harvard University Joint Center for Housing Studies has released its 2019 report into the State of the Nation’s Housing. The report includes four awesome interactive maps illustrating key findings from the study. Since I’m a data nerd I dug...
“Final check on gear” the guide yelled. “One minute!” Our little aluminum jon boat was bobbing violently in the beautiful Caribbean waters. We were a few miles off the coast of Roatan Honduras, an island paradise famous for its scuba...
I was over my buddy Nathan’s house years ago, a massive modern “McMansion style” house in the suburbs of Baltimore. He and his wife Cindy had bought it the previous fall, and this was their first summer in the house. ...
I’ve written before about the affordability gap to housing in the U.S., breaking it down by state. Well things don’t seem to be getting easier for Americans in regards to buying an affordable home. Bloomberg has reported that Americans are...
One of the key rules for smart money management is to focus on the “big three”. What are the big three? For the vast majority of households the three biggest expenses are housing, transportation, and food. If you save the...
My first job out of college earned me $20,000 per year, which is about $35,000 in today’s dollars. Not exactly a high income start to my career, but I was just happy to land a job. When I got out...
One of the biggest decisions you can make financially is whether to buy a home or not. Additionally, where you live will have a huge effect on whether affordable housing is available and on how much you make in your...
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