Sabrina’s Money Madness

Most people just think of their friendly neighborhood bank and as place to deposit their paycheck and pay bills from. We all get those neat little flyers in the mail that seem to be tailored specifically towards us offering all kinds of bank products and services. Did you ever wonder how the banks seem to […]

Just as I thought it would be. We still found a way to entertain ourselves during the call though. First we laughed, giggled and pointed at the coworkers who fell asleep. Although we got a major kick out of it, our bosses were not amused. I’m sure we’ll hear about it later. I also caught […]

Once a quarter the “big wigs” have a conference call where management discusses quarterly profits, net income, blah blah blah. Basically stuff that we can read in one of the many corporate emails that we get. I guess some people are just happy to hear it directly from members of senior management.
I just look at […]

April was a very dry month for me as for as sweepstakes wins go. For the entire month I won a $20 Visa gift card. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy with my win but it’s hard to stay motivated some days.
Right now I’m entering a sweepstakes where you can win a throw rug […]

Before I start throwing out numbers remember that I live in Pittsburgh where the price of real estate is crazy cheap. The house had a market value of $70k, the assessed value is $56k and the sale price was $33k. The house is in a middle class area with 3 bedrooms, a game room, a […]

I could not find that class for anything. The first time I totally went to the wrong building. There are 2 buildings side by side and I thought the class was in one of those buildings but it wasn’t. It was in a totally unrelated building down the street. I totally could have used a […]

I’m taking a home buyers’ class through my job. It only meets once a week for 4 weeks. The class itself lasts about 4 hours. One of my coworkers just took a similar class so between things that she told me and things I already know, I’m not actually learning much from the class.
However at […]

It’s a really cute house in a decent neighborhood. It’s larger than I want because it’s a single family home whereas I’m looking for a townhouse but because of the price I was seriously considering it.
I called the first realtor who was just gungho on having me get pre-approved and showing me properties. I explained […]