I received two more Columbia Fair Fund settlement checks in the mail. Now see, this is why I don't think mutual funds are the bee's knees. Although you receive reports now and then, there is no disclosure of day-to-day trading or whatever side deals they have with brokerages. (Think about who benefits from excessive trading.) They do things that ( Read more... )

After a motel breakfast, the first thing on the agenda was to go with the buyer's agent to the house for a final walk-through. There, we just checked the list of things the seller needed to fix before the settlement. Nothing much to see, actually. Everything pretty much worked. There was electricity, gas, hot and cold water, and a full tank of ( Read more... )