Market Research - Your Salary

On Monday, I began to talk about how to negotiate a better salary for yourself.  It started with a look at your companies compensation philosophy in general and then a bit about considering your performance at work.  Today, I'm going to write about market data. Before you can conduct your search, you have to know your job title.  This is obvious right?  Well, maybe...

Salary Negotiations

Over the weekend I shared with you my good news, the raise and new position I recently achieved.  Today I thought I'd share a little bit about the compensation philosophy in general, and how to negotiate a salary increase for yourself.  I'm going to use Jordan as an example over the next few days as we look at this subject. A company's compensation philosophy is their plan for...

Jessie Got a Raise (and a new job!)

http://www.risesmart.com/blog I can’t believe it’s been two weeks and I haven’t told you my good news yet, I recently got a raise (technically two), and a new job! Every April, my company goes through a salary review process where every single employee has their performance reviewed, and a determination...

Savings Update

I'm very pleased to share that we have reached our 2013 goals for our Vehicle Maintenance, Vacation, Gifts, and Christmas Funds  Next week, we will hit our Emergency Fund target and then be able to focus all extra $$ towards our back yard project this year p.s. I think I forgot to tell you...

Conflicting Priorities

There are a lot of things that Jordan and I want to do, to have, over the next few years and while we want it all, we know we can't have it all - not at the same time anyways.  We're going to have to have a staggered approach. Here's what we want: A family, we'd really like to have...

Our Homes Value

Jordan and I got some great news this weekend! As part of our research for an investment property, we contacted our mortgage broker from our first home purchase.  She did some market research on our current property, and she sent us every sale, conditional sale  in our neighborhood over the last year as well as all active listings. We we went through the information (7 pages) we found...

Investment Properties

Source:  http://www.rohdeappraisal.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/015.jpg  I have some very (potential) exciting news to share with you. Jordan and I are thinking about investing in a second property. We are at a place in our lives where we want our money to start working for us, instead...

DIY: Diaper Cake

For my girlfriends recent baby shower, one of our gifts (aside from hosting the shower), was a homemade diaper cake!  For a grand total of $152.30 - we set the family up to have everything they would need at bath time including: Two towels Two teddy bears A Bathtub thermometer Bath Toys Baby...

DIY Baby Shower Favors

Basket of Favors! This past weekend I hosted my girlfriends baby shower.  Her and her husband are expecting twins!  A boy and a girl - the best of both worlds. One of the things I did was create a custom favor.  The theme was the alphabet, so I bought two puzzles and magnets and hot...

Networth Update: April 1, 2013

Another month has flown by! Here is our network as of April 1st.  To the left you will see the details and to the right, the updated bar graph. I've included a blurb about the mortgage and the escape below that I will include going forward as I get a lot of questions about those...