Posts by Robb Engen
Succession Planning
Business succession planning is critical for the future success of your company, especially if you run a family business. It is a well known fact that family business succession planning fails by the third generation.
Read MoreForecasting Income And Expenses
After tracking my monthly spending with a budget for over a year, I decided that I needed to look further ahead and so I created a spreadsheet to forecast income and expenses over an entire year.
Read MoreYield On Cost
The reason that patience and discipline are such strong virtues of the dividend growth investor is because of yield on cost.
Read MoreChanging The Way We Think About Mortgages
Personally I don’t believe that spending only 2.5 times your gross salary on a house is even close to being realistic anymore. Even 2.5 times gross salary on your mortgage seems like a stretch.
Read MoreUpgrading Our House: Part Two
When it comes down to how much we can afford to spend on a house, the bank has a different opinion than I do. I take what the bank calculates with a grain of salt, as I don’t feel that anyone should extend themselves to the very limits of what they’ve been approved for.
Read MoreHow To Hire Great Employees
Most interviews consist of the same questions, and savvy job seekers have memorized their answers to give you exactly what you want to hear. These are the ten most popular interview questions:
Read MoreUpgrading Our House: Part One
A few weeks ago I met with our mortgage specialist at TD Canada Trust to discuss the process of upgrading our house. With a growing family, one of our goals is to move out of our 2 bedroom 1 bathroom house and build a larger house closer to where I work.
Read MoreUse A Credit Card: Get Free Groceries
Some people enjoy travel rewards cards, but I prefer either cash back or points towards free groceries and free gas. So how did I maximize my rewards?
Read MoreGrocery Store Price Comparison
Once a month for the past year, CTV Calgary has been creating a shopping list to compare grocery store prices at major Calgary grocery stores.
Read MoreGetting The Job Done
The concept behind ROWE is that employees will no longer be responsible for showing up to work at a certain time, or to attend particular meetings, or even show up to the office at all…
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