This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick, and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. In this week's episode, we're heading to the

mailbag to answer your questions about 15 versus 30-year mortgages, investing in IPOs, and

clarifying that 20-30-50 budgeting rule. You guys can't get enough of that.

All that and so much more on this week's episode of Motleyful Answers.

Well, hey, Buck Hartzell is here in the studio this month.

Hi, Allison. Hi, Robert. Thanks for having me.

Buck, did you know that you and I were ships in the night at a 12 and 13-year-old volleyball tournament in Philadelphia last weekend? Oh, I did not know you were in Philadelphia. I was there rooting for the Rochester Mystic. Go, go cousin Ella.

Nice. Did you go to the Reading Terminal and get some good Philadelphia food? We did. We went to the Redding Terminal.

The other tournament was right there at the Philly Convention Center.

And I had never sat through a 12 and 13-year-old girls volleyball tournament, but it is surprisingly good.

It's exciting.

And your ears will never be the same because it's also the kind of roar that goes over the crowd there. It's pretty loud

after you've been in there about 20 hours. Yeah. Yeah. How'd you guys do? All right? We did very

well. We qualified and got an open national bid. So you're going to Indiana. We are going

to Indianapolis. We should make it clear that we're not talking about Buck playing volleyball.

No. We're Talk about his daughter.

That's right. Who is a star? Buck's daughter and my cousin who is, yeah, they, they did not qualify. They went pretty far, but they still are still hoping to get in some

other way. I don't know how this all works. It's very complicated. Different levels from open and then

national and Americans. So yeah, that was maybe other chances for them to get in.

There's some other qualifiers going on. Yeah, I think so.

So anyway, that's fun.

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