Robert R. Rowley PS

Attorney at Law


Author: Robert R. Rowley PS

Abigail Lee (Spokane)

Abigail Lee (Spokane)

Really easy to talk to and very helpful! Abigail Lee (Spokane)  

Read More

Many Who Lost Homes to Foreclosure in Last Decade Won’t Return — NAR – WSJ

Many Who Lost Homes to Foreclosure in Last Decade Won’t Return — NAR – WSJ

Tight credit underwriting and lack of desire to buy again. http://www.wsj.com/articles/many-who-lost-homes-to-foreclosure-in-last-decade-wont-return-nar-1429548640?mobile=y

Read More

Middle age now lasts until 74 as baby boomers refuse to grow old

Middle age now lasts until 74 as baby boomers refuse to grow old

Middle age now lasts until 74 as baby boomers refuse to grow old http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11539573/Middle-age-now-lasts-until-74-as-baby-boomers-refuse-to-grow-old.html

Read More

5 Great Quotes for Tax Day – WSJ

5 Great Quotes for Tax Day – WSJ

Shaquille O’Neal “Last time I looked at a [pay]check, I said to myself, ‘Who the hell is FICA? And when I meet him, I’m going to punch him in the face. Oh my God, FICA is killing me.’ ” (FICA stands for the Federal Insurance Contributions Act, and it identifies the payroll taxes that fund Social […]

Read More

Work Email: Balancing Privacy and the Right to Speak – Free Enterprise

Work Email: Balancing Privacy and the Right to Speak – Free Enterprise

By Christopher Coble, Esq. on March 27, 2015 6:01 From the Sony hack to Hilary Clinton, work email has been all over the news lately. This may leave many employers wondering how closely they can or should monitor their employees’ emails. In some cases, federal law limits how much an employer can monitor electronic correspondence […]

Read More

If I Marry You, Do I Marry Your Student Loans Too?

If I Marry You, Do I Marry Your Student Loans Too?

Is it true if I marry my boyfriend that his student loan debt becomes mine too? –Rennette Fortune @RFortuneMedia viaTwitter. Short answer: No. His student loan debt is his alone and his payment history for those loans stays on his credit history, not yours. When you are ready to buy a house together, though, his […]

Read More

Should you buy a rental property? – Money Management

Should you buy a rental property? – Money Management

http://www.moneymanagement.org/Community/Blogs/Blogging-for-Change/2015/March/Should-you-buy-a-rental-property.aspx?CMP=SNL-040215&cmp=

Read More

Savers Are Losers?

Savers Are Losers?

This image requires an alt attribute. Robert Kiyosaki: Savers are losers – or are they? – #PropertyInvestment http://tinyurl.com/n5nbwnt

Read More

Are Index-Fund Investors Smarter? (Wall St Journal – Mar 26, 2015)

Are Index-Fund Investors Smarter? (Wall St Journal – Mar 26, 2015)

Index funds don’t just outperform most actively managed mutual funds. They also make more money for investors. And, no, I didn’t just repeat myself. At issue here is the distinction between a fund’s total return and its dollar-weighted return. The total return is the standard performance number you see on fund-company websites and in fund […]

Read More

Favorite Tax Quotes (As Collected By The IRS)

Favorite Tax Quotes (As Collected By The IRS)

  When it comes to taxes, everyone has an opinion. These quotes reflect the opinions of their authors; their inclusion here is not an official IRS endorsement of the sentiments expressed. “Taxes are what we pay for civilized society.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice “The power of taxing people and their property […]

Read More