‘Our home insurance has tripled’: here’s how to cut your bill
Over a third of insurers increased prices by more than 15 per cent last year. Here’s Barefoot Investor’s step-by-step guide to get a better deal.
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‘My boyfriend’s car addiction has cost us $30k’
Scott Pape tells a young woman whose boyfriend has left them $30,000 in debt because of his car addiction that they should offload the vehicle and she should consider a trade-in of her own.
It’s time to call your bank and whine
No one knows where interest rates are headed so Barefoot Investor’s advice is call your bank and whine until you get a better mortgage deal.
My dropkick brother-in-law feeds off me like a parasite
My brother-in-law has it sorted – mail-order bride, living rent-free, demanding lavish gifts and refusing to pay back a $10k loan he lost on the stockmarket. Here’s Barefoot Investor’s advice to a fed up woman.
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‘Adulting sucks’: when to contact your bank for mortgage help
A young couple is ready to pull the ripcord just three months after getting their mortgage because they can’t get their expenses under control. Here’s what Barefoot Investor suggests they do.
Warren Buffett sounds the alarm for investors
Donald Trump believes we are entering a ‘golden age’ of investment returns but legendary stock picker Warren Buffett is screaming ‘SELL’. So who’s Barefoot Investor backing?
Don’t spend $85k on two degrees that won’t get you a job
HECS is ‘good debt’, Barefoot Investor tells a mother who paid off her struggling son’s $85,000 bill because he was unable to find a well-paying job or save for a house.
Why buying and holding shares trumps US election winner
In terms of your portfolio, it doesn’t matter who wins the US election, says Barefoot Investor. What does matter is that you buy and hold shares and weather the political storms.
Blindsided bride calls off wedding over $9k Uber Eats debt
Barefoot Investor tells a bride-to-be who discovered her fiancé’s $9000 Afterpay and Uber Eats debt to ‘give love a chance’ before kicking him to the kerb.
Parents at odds over son who squandered their $30k loan
A couple who loaned their son and his partner $30,000 for a home loan only to have them squander it are at odds about what they should do. Scott Pape has some advice.
A bit ruff: No dog is worth $60k in vet fees
Scott Pape loves his new kelpie pup but there’s no way he’ll be forking out $60,000 in vet fees like one of his financially-strained, dog-obsessed Barefoot followers did.
Hello sunshine! Barefoot laments his slow embrace of solar
‘Learn from my mistakes,’ says Scott Pape, who is kicking himself for being so slow to take up solar which he now regards as one of the best investments you can make.
‘This is going to hurt!’ Why can’t Dr Jim say these words?
RBA governor Michele Bullock suggests some highly-geared borrowers might have to sell their homes but you won’t hear Jim Chalmers utter the same warning, even though it’s good advice.
‘I was wrong’: Barefoot backflips on driverless cars
Scott Pape admits he was wrong for being sceptical about driverless cars but that doesn’t mean he expects Tesla shares to soar 1000 per cent, as some analysts have tipped.
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