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Category: Reviews & Howtos

Dilemmas & Paradoxes

A night out – with Rich Dad (Property investing)

  • By That Guy
  • Apr 14,2019
  •  ♦ 18

This week I attended a 2-hour (free) seminar on property investing, from the Rich Dad Education company. I didn’t really know what I was going into (the agenda was very sparse), so I tried to keep an open mind (I already read Rich Dad, Poor Dad, so I was pretty sure I already knew the…

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How to hack your charity donations

  • By That Guy
  • Apr 5,2019
  •  ♦ 0

If you’ve ever walked down a busy shopping street, odds are that you at one point or another, have been solicited by one of those annoying street “sales-people”, who will try to convince you to support <insert worthy cause here>. When I was living in the city (in my 20’s) this happened to me quite…

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My 3 Biggest Crowdlending Mistakes

  • By That Guy
  • Jan 11,2019
  •  ♦ 14

I realize that the topic of my past mistakes has been a little over-represented on the blog lately, but this time I’m going to keep it a bit more relevant to the theme (of investing) πŸ˜‰ I promise I’ll be done talking about my mistakes after this one (yeah, right). A couple of my friends…

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HOWTO: Transfer money fast and free of charge

  • By That Guy
  • Dec 6,2018
  •  ♦ 6

I made my first (ever I think?) international money transfer via my bank in October 2018. I had selected a few crowlending platforms that I wanted to take for a spin. It was scary as hell! I transferred €1.000 to Bulkestate, Grupeer and Viventor via a SEPA transfer in my bank. The fee to do…

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