Purchasing real estate has become a popular Blind topic in Silicon Valley given the high salaries from engineers (average base salary for Google/Facebook software engineers is north of $120,000) and huge IPO stock market returns. It would make sense for…
Happy Home Bidding You found the home of your dreams. After several bidding wars you finally win the house with an incredible offer well above the asking price. If you are lucky enough to have won the RSU lottery, you…
I went out and got myself a new job. I consider myself to be “Barista FIRE” because I still enjoy my tech job in Silicon Valley and taking advantage of my employer’s benefits. Aside from the obvious health insurance benefits,…
In 2020, we suffered through a pandemic where stocks initially dropped like it was hot in March. But for those individuals lucky enough to be working at a hot IPO, you suddenly found yourself flush with RSU cash by December….
Unless you have been living under a rock, you have probably heard of mortgage forbearance as it relates to homeowners affected by Coronavirus. Roughly 3.6 million homeowners remain in pandemic-related forbearance plans as of this blog post (October 2020). That’s…
