Need honest opinion about buying an appropriately sized house or staying in our small one Please help, my wife and I are driving ourselves insane trying to figure out if this is a good idea or not. We are a single income household, and we bought in 2020 a 3 level split home at 2.5% interest. Our mortgage is $1210/month. We have two children, 6 and 14 months. Our 14 month old’s bedroom is considerably smaller than the other bedrooms,…

Is my company handling bonus pay appropriately, and why can’t I figure out what my tax burden is? Last year I received a retention bonus of $10k, and it was processed through payroll as my regular paychecks are. So my income was reported as, say, $100k instead of $90k at year end. When I received the bonus, payroll took out percentage based contributions for 401k and taxes based on the entirety as well. When I did my taxes, I ended up unexpe…

LPT request: how to respond appropriately when you don’t understand someone’s accent? I don’t want to make them feel bad, but I genuinely can’t understand anything they say submitted by /u/quirkscrew