Portfolio Doctor

Lediya and I were recently featured in the September 2006 issue of Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine's monthly feature The Portfolio Doctor. We had some personal finance questions that we wanted to address (rent vs. buy, stay at home vs. work, retirement allocations, etc), so I decided to e-mail the feature's author to see his take. He selected our situation (among the many e-mails he had received) and put us in touch with a couple of certified financial planners. The planners looked at our finances and our questions and gave us their responses, one of which is reflected in the article.

We attended a photoshoot (the photographer actually took 10 rolls of film to get the "perfect" shot). It was an interesting experience in that we opened up our finances to the world for everyone to see. But my take is that if this article helps others out in their situations then it's worth it. Plus, we got a couple of free consultations with top-notch CFPs.