Ask HTM - Cutting Costs by Replacing Light Bulbs, Negotiating a Lower Credit Card APR, and Peer to Peer Lending #104
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🗓️ 15 July 2019
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week on the pod we’re answering your questions! 1 - Should I keep my car payment around in order to boost my credit score? 2 - When does it make sense to replace old light bulbs with new LEDs? 3 - Is it worth disputing my property tax bill? 4 - How can I negotiate a lower APR on my credit cards? 5 - I’m considering joining Lending Club as an alternative way to invest my money- is this a good idea?
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| 1:03.0 | Hey, it's Joel and Matt. And if you're like us, you're probably staying up way too late, asking questions like, how can I hate my taxes less? Or did my recent medical bill really have to cost that much? |
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| 1:43.0 | Welcome to Had a Money. I'm Joel. I'm Matt. And today we are answering your listener questions. |
| 1:49.0 | That's right, Joel. I'm excited that we've got another episode answering listener questions. |
| 2:12.0 | We have an array of questions to cover today, man. Everything ranging from something as simple as replacing light bulbs to negotiating a lower anal percentage rate on our credit card, all the way to something a little fencer, even a lending club. |
| 2:25.0 | That's that peer to peer lending. We're going to talk about that too at the end. |
| 2:28.0 | Yeah, that sounds good, man. But before we get to those questions, I wanted to share with you something I just recently read. |
| 2:33.0 | Did you know that over 50% of the books sold in the United States now are sold through Amazon.com? And that kind of crazy? |
| 2:38.0 | Yeah, that's not so, man. Not only I read the same article because you and I communicate like that. It's not only physical books, but it's also electronic books, audio books. |
| 2:48.0 | I think it's spanned all of the different media types that Amazon's selling. It's insane though. |
| 2:53.0 | Yeah, man, I don't think that's great for competition. That's not overall a really good thing. |
| 2:56.0 | The one company is selling over 50% of something like books in our country. |
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