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Should I Fly First Class? Is First Class Worth It?

While the phrase, “Fly first class or your heirs will!” is one way to think about traveling in luxury, here’s how to know whether you actually should.

PIMD welcomes the White Coat Investor. WCI is a physician-specific personal finance and investing website. The White Coat Investor can help you to become financially literate and disciplined, which will allow you to spend your time and effort on your patients, your family, and your own wellness. WCI truly believes that a financially secure doctor is a better partner, parent, and practitioner. White Coat Investor is an affiliate partner of PIMD.

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Realtor.com Reports Weekly Active Inventory Up 20% YoY; New Listings Down 26% YoY

by Calculated Risk on 5/25/2023 04:05:00 PM

Realtor.com has monthly and weekly data on the existing home market. Here is their weekly report from chief economist Danielle Hale: Weekly Housing Trends View — Data Week Ending May 20, 2023

Active inventory growth slowed again, with for-sale homes rising just 20% above one year ago. The number of homes for sale was higher than this time last year, but not by as much as we’ve seen in recent weeks. As we have discussed, further slowing is likely ahead. One key way that has been played out is by encouraging

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Top 5 Reasons to Retire Early

PIMD welcomes Physician On Fire as our guest post. POF is a personal finance website created to inform and inspire both physicians and our patients with insightful writing from a physician who has attained financial independence and the ability to retire early.

Cusack’s character, Rob, is a big fan of them; so am I. David Letterman had his Top 10 lists, but half the list was nonsense and the lame answers distracted you from laughing at the 4 or 5 funny ones. So I’m taking Rob’s approach.

my top 5 reasons to retire early are:

1. Retire Early Because You

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Gulfport and Grand Isle among the most affordable beach towns | Entertainment/Life

A Mississippi Coast city was recently rated the most affordable beach town in the United States.

Gulfport topped Realtor.com’s 2023 list of the most affordable beach towns, beating out cities like Newport News, Virginia; Corpus Christi, Texas; and Navarre, Florida.

Realtor Tiffany Kirkland of Harper Realty has been selling homes across the Mississippi Coast for three years. She was not surprised by the distinction.

“I think it’s pretty awesome and pretty accurate,” she said. “There are always great deals around here.”


Still recovering from Ida, Grand Isle rushes to prepare for another hurricane season

This is the city’s second time leading Realtor.com’s top 10. In 2018, no other city in the country

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Journal Club 04-28-23 – Passive Income MD

Here’s Journal Club 04-28-23! Every week, I hold a JOURNAL CLUB. After filtering through the articles on the web, I present a few that impacted my life this week. Be safe and stay well!


  • Do you have an existing 401(k) that you were once excited about but now feel like you’re stuck with it, as it either comes with high fees or has a high expense ratio? Well, you’re not alone. The White Coat Investor talks more about this and shares helpful steps to better manage your retirement account in the article – What To Do With A Crummy
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How expensive are Center County homes? Realtors say the median price grew yet again in March

The median home sale price in Center County in March was more than 11% higher than it was the year before, according to data recently published by the county realtors’ association.

The median sale price last month was approximately $345,000, checking in above last March’s median price of roughly $310,000. That’s an increase of about 11.3%, according to the Center County Association of Realtors’ residential market trend report for March.

Meanwhile, national real estate site Redfin reported a median home sale price of roughly $347,600 for Center County in March. Here is how that stacks up against the rest of

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Homebuilder sentiment rises for the fourth-straight month as housing steadies [Video]

Confidence among US single-family homebuilders rose in April, the fourth-straight month this measure has increased as declining mortgage rates and low inventory bolster demand for new homes.

The National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo’s gauge of builder sentiment rose one point to 45 according to figures released Monday, matching Wall Street expectations.

This measure still reflects general caution among builders as we head into the heart of housing’s spring selling season. Readings under 50 for this index show a larger proportion of builders responding to the survey see conditions as “poor” than those who see conditions in the market as

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A top real estate economist explains why a housing rebound is coming as rising sales and lack of supply look poised to lift home prices

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  • Nadia Evangelou, senior economist for the National Association of Realtors, sees a rebound coming.

  • Easing inflation will bring mortgage rates down, and tight supplies will send prices higher.

  • In her view, the US will avoid both the recession and housing crash that others have forecasted.

While some experts have warned of an impending US housing crash, Nadia Evangelou, senior economist and director of research at the National Association of Realtors, anticipates the opposite.

Home prices and sales will dip this year, but she anticipates a rebound in 2024 with rising sales and limited supplies