My biggest goal for 2012 will be the $30,000 challenge, presented by a group of bloggers interested in increasing their online income. I’m joining this challenge as motivation to help me take my sites to the next level. My goal is to push myself to really develop my business online – whether it is writing [...]
How I Fought Back Against Wells Fargo Fees
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I am an extremely frustrated Wells Fargo customer. Maybe since I’ve always been a capitalist at heart, I never really was bothered too much by bank fees, because most of the time they seemed, on some level, to make sense. However, earlier this month, I came across a fee at Wells Fargo that really made [...]
Saving to Invest: The Best Checking and Savings Accounts for Students
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Post provided by Thomas Samph of FindTheBest, an unbiased data-driven comparison engine designed to help you find the best of anything from a credit card to venture capital firms. In order to invest, you first have to save. Saving, however, is one of the most difficult things to do for a college student. After all, it’s not only huge loans [...]
All About Private Mortgage Insurance
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In recent years, consumers have grown overwhelmingly reluctant to purchase a new home, and for good reason. Although property values and mortgage rates are at all time lows, unemployment is at an all-time high. This is consistent throughout the United States, where families feel a greater level of anxiety each day about the consequences of [...]
What To Get A Blogger For Christmas
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Well, it’s almost Christmas, and I’m a procrastinator. Besides that, I’m hoping my wife is too, and that she will read this list and get me something from it! Here are some “essentials” that I would love to get for Christmas, and they would probably be great for the blogger in your life as well! [...]
How No Cost Refinances Work
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With interest rates so low, and going lower by the day, many people are thinking about refinancing their homes. One ploy that mortgage companies use to incentivize refinancing is the “No Cost” Refinance. Most people know that getting a mortgage involves costs: fees, escrow, appraisal, etc. When calculating your return on refinancing, most people look [...]
What is an Insurance Dividend?
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I was excited earlier this month when I received a “dividend” from my insurance company. I was always surprised by this, because I never understood why an insurance company would pay a dividend. I understood why stocks paid dividends – to return earnings to shareholders. Well, insurance companies do the same thing, but they are [...]
How Your Credit History Impacts Your Car Insurance
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Shopping for car insurance is already an activity that most of us would prefer to delegate to someone else, but when one finds out that their credit score might actually play a part in the rate they get, it can turn into quite the headache inducing experience. Most people assume that driving history, make and [...]
The Best Investment Advice I’ve Received
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My name is SFI, and I blog at Six Figure Investor. I want to share the best investment advice and other investing tips I received in my youth that was staring at me in plain view. It is my hope that the readers of The College Investor will find it useful and entertaining! Let’s go [...]
How America Does Personal Finance Better
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This week has been a controversial week here at The College Investor, so I thought I would wrap it up on a high note about some things America get’s right with personal finance. Even with all that could be done better, that are a lot of great things to be thankful for, as you don’t [...]
Congressional Leaders Promote Individual Financial Un-Accountability
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What ever happened to individuals taking care of themselves? What ever happened to leadership and accountability in America? It seems to have gone away… I’m a big proponent of personal accountability and leadership accountability. One of the things I live by is the 10 Steps of Accountability. It really defines what accountability is, and where [...]
Finding The Best Credit Card
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With the holiday’s coming up quickly, and so many changes in the credit card industry, it is essential to make sure that you are finding and using the best credit card possible. Recent financial reform in Washington has caused a lot of credit cards to change their perks, and so many people who thought they [...]
Everything To Know About Layaway
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Layaway is a favorite choice among consumers and it has started to make a comeback this holiday season. What’s even more interesting – customers couldn’t be more excited. After all, what’s not to love about a service that provides the convenience of a credit card without the expensive interest rates? Sure, you’ll have to wait [...]
The College Investor – Upgraded!
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Welcome to the newly remodeled The College Investor. Hopefully you’ve tolerated all the odd shapeshifting that has been occurring the past several days as we have been working out the kinks on a new back-end that should make the site faster and more reliable. My last theme was mired in scripts and other oddities that [...]
