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[quote=soomdy;68885] 3) Open checking /savings acocunt in online bank who give good rate like presidentialbank.com or wamu.com or ing.com. [/quote] What is your opinion of Fidelity SmartCash? Fidelity is also the provider of my 401(k). My wife's 401(k) is through Vanguard. We are thinking about ...

What are the disadvantages of Employee Stock purchase plan? My company is offering stocks @85% value. What are the risks? I am very new to the US and would like to understand from tax/growth perspective as well.

Thanks for alerting on Amway. One thing that really surprised me was the process of obtaining credit card. I have a citibank credit card from India but was shocked to learn that we need to rebuild our credit history in the US (the reason being in the US credit cards are tied to SSN). We were under ...

what is Amway?

I am not sure whether we took a correct decision or not regarding health insurance. We had option of choosing between PPO and HSA. We chose in favor of PPO as we were told PPO would cover emergencies better than HSA even though PPO is expensive than HSA. Is this true? Unfortunately, we had only two ...

Thanks a lot to all the replies. They are very valuable. One of our colleagues is selling his Corolla and we are going to check that out tomorrow.

Both of us got our drivers license couple of weeks back and we are in the market for buying cars. Any tips or suggestions? Primarily we are looking for low maintenance with an eye for resale when we leave. We have some family in Florida and North Carolina and we may take two long trips per year

Dear All, This is a great forum. I am learning a lot about financial management here. A little bit of my background. My wife (27)and I (30) moved to US from India in 2007 October. We live in Washington DC metro area and both are working. We have no children and have no plans for kids for another 6 ...