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• Re: Holy moly my credit score dropped like a rock!! January 28, 2023
  Yep, my score went down to 750 ish. First time I carried a significant balance last year at 0%. Did some quick math and decided to pay it off. I want my 800+ score back. I want (a better chance) of getting the Venture X credit card. Not sure this will do it, but not […]
  Wannaretireearly
• Re: Tax question: can I write off “travel expenses” from work to home - state and city January 28, 2023
  catchup wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 4:51 pm Galawdag I agree that the federal code is not ambiguous. I think it could be argued that maintaining the apt for example is a work expense. Since work expenses are deductible per pa code, one could conceive of trying to write it off on state and city […]
  galawdawg
• Re: 401k vs 457? January 28, 2023
  Affirming that yes you are overthinking this. Max out the 457 plan, precisely because it is more flexible, while taking care to capture the complete match in the 401(k) plan. Maximizing the 401(k) plan and putting the rest in 457 plan is *NOT* a suboptimal choice, as long as the existing balance in the 457 […]
  lakpr
• Re: How to do QCD with HR Block Deluxe?? January 28, 2023
  Back to the doc from Fidelity about death benefit, i found another doc on the web that said for an inherited retirement account, 1099-R will typically report a "4" in box 7 (death). Perhaps that is only if you normally would have an early withdrawal penalty. I guess I'm going with: * Contact H&R Block. […]
  prd1982
• Re: Linux Desktop today how is it as a daily driver? January 28, 2023
  retiringwhen wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 5:03 pm dual wrote: ↑Wed Jan 25, 2023 4:48 pm Enad: I set up dual monitors for my daughter and my wife and both are running Linux Mint 20.1. I am sure this is doable in other distributions as it's Ubuntu under the hood Thanks for the response, but […]
  oldcomputerguy