Everybody Loves Your Money

Wow.  It’s amazing how much nicer blogging is now that I’ve gotten the long term bugs worked out of my site.  I have been suffering with some database issues for over 9 months.  It killed my blogroll when it all happened so I’ve been running without a blogroll for that long.  I also wasn’t able to use a blog editor (Windows Live Writer) due to the problems.  For 9 months I have been blogging with the Wordpress interface and I don’t mind telling you, it sucked.

Well, it’s finally fixed and now I can add pictures and other content.  I think I’ve written 6 posts already today.  I’ll spill them out over the next few days.  I wouldn’t wait on the edge of your seat or anything but I think the posts are decent.  I wanted to thank everyone in my blogroll for sticking with me and not removing their link back to me.  Some of you may not have noticed, but I’m sure some of you did.  Either way, thanks for linking to ELYM.

I finally jumped on the bandwagon and joined Twitter.  I’m subscribing to a few PF bloggers.  If you are twittering, leave a comment so I can add you! 

You can follow along with me at: http://www.twitter.com/elym

I also have installed a Twitter plug in so that you can see the latest Twitters right here on the website.  (Look over on the right sidebar)

I stumbled on to this interesting site today.  Basically it’s a site that asks for anonymous information about how much you make at your company and then posts it anonymously for all the other members to see.  It’s sort of like NetworthIQ but for salaries instead of net worth. I haven’t actually signed up for it yet, but I’m thinking about it.  If they have reliable data, it should be pretty fascinating over the long term.

Check it out: http://www.glassdoor.com

Want to see what properties are selling for in an area and then compare that to rental rates?  Hotpads does just that.  It also provides really cool heat maps to show you, at a glance, where it makes more sense to rent vs buy.  This tool could prove very valuable to someone trying to decide whether to buy in to an area or not.  It also has other demographic information as well. It’s well worth a quick look.

And check out this site: http://hotpads.com/main.htm

I’m not getting any sort of compensation for linking to them.  I just found them both to be two new refreshing looks at things that affect our personal finance lives.