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You can freeze your account and put a Medallion Signature Guarantee requirement for distributions. Just make sure you have access to an institution that can grant those when you need it.

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I have a question about Trump's Healthcare Executive Order and how the IRS is obliging with it. http://www.sfchronicle.com/business/networth/article/Quiet-IRS-change-could-undermine-Obamacare-10932798.php If I understand this correctly, if a taxpayer files his/her taxes without filling out line 61 (...

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I will be rolling over a 401k from Fidelity to Vanguard and was wondering if anybody had any experience with this. When I contact Fidelity, they say that they will only send a check directly to me, and will not do a custodian to custodian transfer to Vanguard. Has anyone found any way around this, o...

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I believe that your foreign insurance must meet the minimum essential coverage guidelines. You can call the healthcare.gov people and see if they can tell you if your insurance qualifies. As to getting around it, will you be out of the US for more than 330 days? If so you can apply for a waiver. Do ...

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While it would be possible to re characterize the Roth conversion to undo the conversion and put the money back into TIRA. I do not think you can recharacterize the Traditional IRA contribution that you have already recharacterized from Roth IRA contribution. I don't see much downside to keeping th...

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So I have a bit of a messy situation. At the beginning of the year I thought I would be below the MAGI limits for a Roth IRA and so contributed $5500 to one. I found out earlier in the year that I would be above the MAGI limits and so ended up recharacterizing this Roth IRA to a Traditional one and ...

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Medjet seemed pretty expensive, I got a quote for $816 on their website. Adding on a Blue Cross Worldwide plan (which if I understand correctly seems to also require US insurance), can bump up the the total pretty high. I would be curious to hear what sort of costs you are getting. If are relativel...

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Read Calif FTB Pub 1031 on residency status. Basically, if you 1) are transferred out of state for work, and 2) stay out 546 days except for visits of less than 45 days per year, you are non-resident. We have properties in CA, driver's licenses, and are registered voters there (absentee ballot). Ha...

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Move to Seattle Take your vacation Come back & move back to CA Wouldn't this work? I am not quite sure and so would like more responses on this, but I have a feeling it would look something more like this: 1) Move to Income Free State 2) Change everything to be new State Based based (Change and...

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Medjet seemed pretty expensive, I got a quote for $816 on their website. Adding on a Blue Cross Worldwide plan (which if I understand correctly seems to also require US insurance), can bump up the the total pretty high. I would be curious to hear what sort of costs you are getting. If are relativel...

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Many of the travel insurance products sold are not worth it, in my opinion. They make a great deal of money for travel agents and other travel providers. These include baggage insurance, trip interruption, trip delay, trip cancellation, auto CDW, Medevac (except for Medjet, discussed below), and ge...

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CFM300 wrote: Can you completely severe ties with California for 2017? Perhaps you could switch everything over to a relative's address?

I do have family in income tax-free states, but I plan to reside back in California in 2018. It doesn't sound like it'll be an easy task.

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So for the 2017 calendar year, I will be outside of the US for the entire year, but I will be traveling around and won't exactly be a resident in any one area. Is there a way for me to obtain the "U.S. citizen residing overseas" designation, and if so how? What are the restrictions on suc...

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Why do you need any kind of "US citizen residing overseas" designation? If you're not resident in a state, you don't pay state taxes. Just don't file. Or file a part-year tax return, if that's appropriate. There's a chance the state tax department will (eventually) send you a letter askin...

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So for the 2017 calendar year, I will be outside of the US for the entire year, but I will be traveling around and won't exactly be a resident in any one area. Is there a way for me to obtain the "U.S. citizen residing overseas" designation, and if so how? What are the restrictions on such...

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Hey everyone and thank you for the responses. The trip with start off in South East Asia/East Asia, and will for sure have South America, and possibly either Europe or Africa. I will not have any US based health insurance. Since I will be out of the country for more than 330 days of the year, I will...

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We use travel insurance for all of our major trips recently, but we've never had particularly long trips. We do have MedJetAssist, which is very specific: If one ends up as an INpatient, at least 150 miles from home, then their coverage kicks in. You can call them, and they will medevac you to the ...

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So I'll be taking some time off to travel soon and was wondering what everyone's thoughts on travel insurance was? I'll be doing it for a year, and the coverage would be worldwide, and based on what I found on World Nomads, the total cost would be $1300 for the year. I just have a feeling that I wil...

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Thank you for your response. Is there a way I can start the Rollover process in 2016 but not have it finished until 2017 and be effective for the 2017 year?

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So I contributed $5500 to my Roth IRA at the beginning of the year, but it looks like my income for the year will end up being in the MAGI Phase Out zone. I was wondering what the best course of action would be given the following circumstances: 1) I will have NO earned income next year. I assume th...

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retiredjg wrote:It takes earned income (or "compensation") to qualify to contribute to an IRA.

Booooo

. Thanks for the response!

kirent

So next year I will likely not have any earned income.

I plan to convert $43500 of the amount from a rollover traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

Can I contribute $5500 separate dollars to the Roth IRA or does this not count as qualifying income?

Thanks for your help!

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Just curious what everyone's New Year's resolutions are going to be? :) For me: Beyond core savings for retirement, I also want to save a bit more for a big trip. (I have concrete numbers for this). I plan to start a new exercise regimen that's more interesting. Currently I just go to the gym and th...

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Did you vet them out first on Yelp before trying them? I generally avoid any restaurants below 4 stars, and my experience eating out has generally been good.

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Using a tour service (Intrepid, G Adventures, etc) is not really going to be necessary. Tour services come at quite a cost premium and are great when there isn't a well establish travel route and/or you are limited in time. And neither of these will be the case. You will not have trouble traveling ...

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What field of work are you in? What will you say when you're asked why there's a gap in your resume? I work in Front-End Software Development. I would be honest and say I took the time off to travel the world and broaden my horizons. I do understand there is quite a bit of risk in what I am doing, ...

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This of course requires that you have enough money to make the contributions and pay for the travel you're planning (the big IF), but logistically I would say you could continue contribute to contribute as long as you don't line the travel up with the tax year. If you front/back load your 401k cont...

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Hey everyone and thank you so much for the responses! :) I will try to answer as many questions as I can below. My plan would be to do 6 months doing the entire continent of South America, 3 months in South (and parts of East) Africa, and 3 months in South East Asia. I plan to backpack using hostels...

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Hey everyone and thank you for all your financial guidance over the years! I haven't fully decided yet, but I am strongly considering quitting my job end of next year to travel for a year while I am still relatively young (late 20s). I wanted to go over two major points: the financial implications o...

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I was bored with the gym also. About 4 years ago my wife and I decided we would try CrossFit for a few months. 3 years later we opened our own CrossFit box. Joining a box will definitley help with motivation and boredom. Not so much the wallet though. Another option is to order some basic equipment...

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Has anybody here travelled to China and either accessed the Internet from Wi-Fi or through a local SIM/cellular usage? If so did you have any concerns about security when accessing internet accounts (email, banking etc.)? Did you use any VPN services etc.? I plan to go on a trip there but have been ...

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Just curious how everyone goes about rebalancing. The end of the year is approaching and I'm assuming many people do some kind of financial planning during this time. Also curious on how you guys carry out the rebalancing act, especially for items in taxable accounts. I find that rebalancing between...

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What are these Vanguard/Fidelity/Financial Institution's Programs that are getting many votes? I know of no program from Vanguard. Just the pie charts? Fidelity Full View, Vanguard Linked Online Accounts (CashEdge), which I believe is closed to new sign ups. Also some banks offer similar funcitonal...

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I was curious what kind of financial tools and software do you guys use? Whether it be for budgeting, managing investments and/or net worth tracking.

Was there a reason why you chose that tool/software over other choices?

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Just curious on how everyone goes about getting their car washed. A side question that goes a long with that, how often do you go get a car wash, and how much do you pay? I'm debating which option is best to keep my car clean, I'm leaning towards the express car wash, and then finishing up anything ...

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Thank you for all the responses everyone. I guess I learned to search for cheap flights first before picking out dates for tours or other arrangements.

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I'm looking to go on vacation to Europe during the summer season (Late June to Early July) and was wondering what would be the best way to get the cheapest tickets possible. I'm guessing that's probably when tickets are the priciest but am just looking for the best way to minimize the damage. Curren...

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Way too much work. For popular models, just go online and see what people have bragged about getting their car for in your area, and then just go to the same dealer and get the same price (sometimes they might say no though). You can email other dealers with the price, but I doubt you'd get a better...

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I like to buy grass-fed beef and pastured and organic fatty meats but for leaner cuts and vegetables I generally don't care that much.

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How about a "Donor" title for people who donated $25 or more?

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Any updates?

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I believe that native apps have more API access (like the Camera, Contacts etc. for iOS) and can be much faster than their browser counterparts (I believe you don't see it with Facebook because it's just a wrapper around their HTML5 Mobile website rather than a native app made with Objective-C/Java...

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I believe that native apps have more API access (like the Camera, Contacts etc. for iOS) and can be much faster than their browser counterparts (I believe you don't see it with Facebook because it's just a wrapper around their HTML5 Mobile website rather than a native app made with Objective-C/Java).

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hicabob wrote: iphone4 for pageplus is a lot less than 650 each and the lack of a contract will enable you to take advantage of the expected lower data prices over the years.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=pageplus+iphone+4

It's not exactly a fair comparison if we are comparing different phones is it?

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Another thing most people don't relize is even with the phone subisidy taken into account you pay more for verizon or AT&T then you do if you pay full price for the phone and use prepaid. Is that really true though? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but looking at a comparison between Verizon and...

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why is frugality a controversy? If nothing is leftover - your investment style doesn't really matter. Frugality is important to the boglehead approach. I disagree. I think you can save without being frugal. For instance, assume someone takes home $100k after taxes, and automatically saves $50k. Wit...

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The Boglehead principle is NOT frugality; it is "Invest early and often." Some people may need to be quite frugal to do that; others can do it while indulging in any variety of economic frivolity. I think I agree. I think that if you save enough money to meet your retirement and other fin...

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Is there a reason to use Ooma over Obihai?

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