Mine considers if it's been titled it is no longer new.

Refinancing is usually not as good of a rate as buying it brand new.

Unless there's a very specific car there that you can't find anywhere else I'd find somewhere else to buy a car. There are 2 of my cars dealers in my area. I don't like who took over my dealership so I don't deal with them anymore.

I had one employer where you couldn't contribute to a 401k until you had been there for a year. Another employer sent me a check after I quit and I rolled it over into an ira. You can't just forget about low dollar amounts and then try and figure it out years later.

100k is 20% down on 500k. A lot or a little depending on where you are. Rates aren't great right now. You'll need some extra for closing costs so you shouldn't put all of the money down. Be careful with condos because they can have big hoa dues. Ours are over $2500 every quarter.

It's not unusual for executives to make that kind of money in bonuses in any line of work.

I'm super good at that. I get in "trouble" all the time.

Sounds like she got scammed not hacked. Especially if she changed her number. You don't change your number if your phone gets hacked.

They need more money for the length of the terms that they are offering higher rates for. A bank determines what their money needs are in advance and for how long they need that money.

Probably a new build.

It was the 80's. It's going to be my grandma claim to fame along with when I was younger gas was 69 cents a gallon. It was technically only that cheap for 2 weeks because a new station had opened and they wanted to drive traffic their way.

We use Merrill for our brokerage so I'll have him check. We use Ally for our CDs. I remember back in the day when I worked at a bank you could get 8% for CDs. I worked in the IRA department and had to pull paper files sometimes and there were customers who had at one point had CDs at like 13%.

I will mention that to him since we have a good bit of cash coming in soon.

Bonds are all virtual now and a little more complicated to buy. We converted all of our son's paper bonds to digital and it was a hassle. The account number is complicated and not easy to remember. If you want family to buy bonds for the grandkids they need the account number and need to be digitally savvy. I suggested we buy some bonds recently and my husband didn't want to go through the hassle because I think you can only buy 10k per person. He didn't think the return was worth the hassle of the website. We do have CDs that we have laddered to mature every 2 months.