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Return To Questrade Deal, Blog Highlight and Last Linkstuff

A quick reminder that the Four Pillars “Return to Questrade” deal is almost over. Check out my original post for details – if you went to RBC last year for the 1% deal and want to return for the trades then this is the time.
My wife and I have completed moving our accounts back to Questrade and I have to say it is nice to have trades again (not that the trades at RBC were that bad) and the best part is that I can move money in and out of my Questrade accounts from my CIBC chequing account which I couldn’t do at RBC Direct.

I think this is going to be the last linkpost for a while (maybe forever). They are fairly time consuming and I’m not sure that they add much value for anyone.

Blog Spotlight

Ok, this is more of a “staff writer” highlight rather than a blog highlight….most of you probably already know that Kathryn is a regular writer at Million Dollar Journey and has become one of my favourite bloggers – she is a great writer and has very interesting topics.

Here are some of my favourite selections:

None of her business – Kathryn says she would like to help everyone she meets with their financial problems but she rarely does.
Money and dating – She explores the necessity of finding someone with similar financial goals to your own.
Buying a house – A very interesting post – she discusses selling her house to a friend and asks what kind of housing options there are for her in Toronto.

The rest of the links

Krystal at Work is mad as hell at her friends who spend too much money and then have the nerve to complain about their debt. Quite entertaining!

Mrs. Micah wrote about some shady banking practices with should you be able to overdraft your checking account?. Obviously if you have an overdraft the banks can charge money but they apparently can also change the order of your transactions to increase the overdraft charge.

Get Money Energy explains how much it costs to apply to graduate school. She should know since she is in grad school!

Thicken My Wallet questions – do you own too much house? Along with the Money Gardener, he tries to figure out how much house is too much.

Canadian Capitalist asks if fixed-income investors have the same problems as equity investors when it comes to sticking to their investment plan?

ABCs of Investing wrote about tax-free municipal bonds.