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Did they bleed the brakes as well? I wonder if something is not quite right with the brake fluid?

I moved from HCOL to LCOL about 13 years ago. Spent about 10 years living in California, both northern and southern. We left California in 2006 at the height of the housing bubble. Tried buying multiple houses and townhouses when our new child was born, and kept getting outbid with 12+ offers on eac...

I had a furnace cap go bad a few months ago. It was actually one of the good brand made in USA ones. Debugged it, and found the capacitor was leaking. 17 year old furnace. Took the opportunity to change the one in the second furnace since it takes about 10 minutes. Then went and changed the one I'm ...

Bought a new vehicle, dealer offered $1000 for the trade in.

Washed the old vehicle, took some pics with my phone, and sold it on Craigslist for $5200 within 30 minutes of posting, with buyer paying in cash.

Noone clearly has any idea what will happen to Bitcoin. I do not normally gamble on such things, but I started with a few Bitcoins at around $550. Then as the rest of the cryptocurrencies started becoming more popular, I figured I would do the most Boglehead thing possible for investing in cryptos, ...

I visited the local Fidelity office once (5 minutes from my home). I went in to ask for their offerings for fixed income. To me that meant CD's, Bonds, etc. To the advisor, that somehow was interpreted as an opportunity for a sales pitch for their advisory services. I have no idea how he made the co...

I made the same decision, and went with a Subaru Forester. Quieter, more features, lower price, spacious. First Subaru for a family with Honda's and Toyotas. Great car so far.

We bought a ski condo 6 years go. The prices were super low at that time, and even with the good prices, I thought that we would lose quite a bit of money after HOA fees and taxes. In those 6 years, the value has more than doubled, the yearly gross revenue has more than doubled, we use it all the ti...

I've read a few reviews of the 2019 Rav4 and the road noise was called out as not great. It is a big purchase for 100 miles round trip. Yes, I was about to buy one until the test drive, and I was amazed at how loud the road noise was.... supposedly the Hybrid version is a little quieter and has sou...

I was making the same decision. Drove the cx5 as well, which was fantastic, but felt small inside to me. I was waiting for the new rav4 since it was announced last year, and was pretty convinced that is what I was going to buy since I usually buy Honda's and Toyotas. I test drove the Rav4, and the r...

I love in Colorado. Get the snow tires. Although it may not be "necessary", the difference in traction is huge. As far as cost, the way I look at it is that the cost is minimal. Although snow tires wear out faster in my experience, you are not using your summer tires in winter, so they last longer. ...

Made it to $1M at age 35. Graduated from college with an MS in engineering. Wife is an immigrant, and my parents were immigrants, so I grew up lower middle class, and less than that for wife. No loans, parents paid for low cost state school undergrad where I finished in 3 years and in a top grad sch...

Another vote for the minivan especially if you go on roadtrips. We have three kids, and got the 8 seat version of the Sienna. For long trips, we lower the entire third row, all the kids sit in the 2nd row, and we have TONS of space for bicycles, luggage, camping equipment, etc. And as stated many ti...

No change in status as of this morning. Still have full online access to my TDA and Lively accounts. There are these notes in the "check the status of pending transfers" section of the transfers screen, but they were there the other day too: "We're working on your transfer of assets request. Please...

2006 Honda CR-V 147,000
2009 Toyota Sienna 150,000

The Toyota is great, only basic maintenance. The Honda needed a new A/C compressor and alternator in the same year (last year). Other than that just normal maintenance.

I am guessing Toyo's are better now. I had some about 15 years ago on an accord, and they were the worst tires I have every purchased. The slightest rain, and they would lose traction. Driving on the highway was an experience, the car would literally hydroplane every time it rained. I guess that was...

I love dogs, and have had one for the last 20 years. I also have a neighbor that lets their dog roam (we live in an upscale neighborhood with no fences). I brought the dog back to the owner, talked with the owner, emailed the owner multiple times after, and nothing changed until a year and a half in...

Anyone know of why the EJ agent might do this?

Does it make his metrics look better because if he loses an account it may count against him but if he "fires" a client it perhaps does not?

I ordered some LG appliances from Costco. They outsourced it to some provider LG used. It was a complete disaster. 1) For the first install, they never connected up the water to the dryer for the steam function, and just left it like that without telling anyone. 2) Finally got a hold of someone, who...

That's all well and good, but what do I do if after waiting 3-6 months for my car, they add additional dollars to it? It's tough to say, "that wasn't our deal," and then wait another 6 months for the car from dealer 2. This happened to me once. I ordered a minivan. After two months when the vehicle...

1) We bought a GE Profile dishwasher about eight or ten years ago and it was really awful. Combine that with bad experiences on two GE microwaves that each lasted only a couple of years before literally going "bang!" and emitting a puff of smoke, and we've pretty well had it with GE. The front pane...

I have lived in C. Springs for the last 10 years. I have lived in N. California (2 years), S. California (6 years), various parts of IL(20+ years), and Texas(1yr). C. Springs is by far our favorite place we have lived. Second runner up was Cali, but far too expensive for us. Not that we couldnt affo...

Interestingly enough, this just happened to my Moto g5+ phone this morning. It started doing a boot loop, and then factory reset itself. Really annoying! Phone seems to be working fine after the factory reset, so probably not a hardware issue. The phone is running Android 7.0.

I had the same exact thing happen a few years ago when I ordered two fly fishing rods sold by Amazon.com. Using Amazon Prime, I expected them to show up in a few days. After three days, my orders (i placed two separate orders) were cancelled. I called Amazon and they told me they are out of stock. I...

I used provident for my mortgage, and they were excellent. Just paid off the loan after selling the home last week, there were perfect for the last three years, and their website is great and lets you accomplish pretty much anything you would need. Penfed on the other hand was a total nightmare, I a...

As the father of a disabled child, I hope my family comes together when I am gone like you guys seem to be coming together to take care of her in the future. Very admirable. Nice!

We went with a minivan. The sienna is the best vehicle we own. Have had it for $100k miles so far, tow a 3000lb camper, endless ski trips with snow tires, great vehicle. It was also cheaper than the SUV options we looked at. Carrying 8 people and all their ski gear is amazing. No reason to buy the S...

They gave me a limit of around $11k if I remember correctly, it was sometime last year. I called them up, and they increased it to $35k. I told them that my AMEX has a limit like that and I would like the same with the Citi card. They put me on hold and approved in a few seconds. Now, the hard part....

I have had two saeco super automatics for the last 8yrs or so. The first lasted 6 years and was still working great when I sold it on craiglist. The second I bought from Seattle coffee gear (for less than the one I sold on craiglist) and it has been going strong. Make sure to descale every once in a...

I have now tried it twice. Once in 2006, buying a honda cr-v. The dealer was willing to meet a costco price that was pretty decent, but wanted me to purchase all sorts of addons (window etching, roof rack, blah blah) and claimed there was no way to get one without all these addons. I called costco t...

My wife's car was rear ended last year, not too bad. She came home, and I looked at the bumper and it did look like some slight new scratches. I am sure we could have used insurance to get some money. I asked my wife: "was he nice to you?" She said yes, super nice and very apologetic. We decided not...

I bought a ski condo in Colorado, (Keystone) 1 bedroom a few hundred yards from the main Gondola. As we were buying the condo, I turned to my wife and said: "This is a not a good financial decision for us, but it will be fun for the family and we are going to do it." The funniest part was the realto...

Does (or will he qualify) for SSI in the future based on the special needs?

If so, having assets could cause problems with SSI/Medicaid payments in the future and a trust may be a better savings vehicle.