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K8-EEE

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23. The clincher is that they visited us in May and got the royal treatment
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 01:31 AM
Jun 2012

The visited us (we live in L.A.) and honestly I slaved over fixing up the guest room, figuring out what the hell to feed them (several variations of meat and potatoes, yawn) drove them to The Getty and Dodger Stadium and basically all over the place (they are afraid to drive here) borrowed a friend's house in Palm Springs for the weekend and etc. etc.!!

They had a great trip and were pretty appreciative but now are not even returning my "no hard feelings about the annuity thing, right?" email....sheesh!

I am now kind of obsessed with rip off annuities. Was reading on a financial forum, how these guys were saying "don't work at Axa" because "advising" is 100% sales and they make you troll your friends and family for prospects (aka suckers.) One of them called it "The Cutco of financial institutions" referring to the expensive knives pedaled by everyone's kids (I have a whole set!)

And get this: YOU HAVE TO PAY RENT ON YOUR CUBE THERE!! How Republican can you GET. Apparently if you make it past probation period you get it reiumbursed or some such??

So, both the way they do business and the way they treat their employees should be illegal IMO!

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I understand, elleng Jun 2012 #1
Tell your husband to proceed with extreme caution. Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #2
Holy cow!! I don't even have a prospectus....I have some kind of "Scenario" K8-EEE Jun 2012 #3
Well, I looked online after posting that, and the prospectus I found Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #4
ZOMG the annual fees are 3.2%! K8-EEE Jun 2012 #5
Pretty high, I'd say, elleng Jun 2012 #6
OK so I was doing some research and my state is one of the 7 that charges tax on these K8-EEE Jun 2012 #7
BOTH is worse! elleng Jun 2012 #8
Well that's just the thing for the annuity you don't pay Capital Gains you pay REGULAR TAX RATE K8-EEE Jun 2012 #9
I hope your husband is thinking twice or thrice about this. Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #10
I did a lot of research and put my foot down OVER MY DEAD BODY. My problem is K8-EEE Jun 2012 #11
Good for you. Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #12
My husband is a successful artist - and completely uninterested in finances K8-EEE Jun 2012 #13
Glad to see you've gotten so far with this, elleng Jun 2012 #14
I'm really starting to think Mr. Annuity Asshole ran off with our $$ or something. K8-EEE Jun 2012 #15
HOPE you're not right, about him running off w funds. elleng Jun 2012 #16
The saga continues: K8-EEE Jun 2012 #17
Glad y'all are on it, elleng Jun 2012 #18
There are laws about how long someone is allowed to take to settle an estate. SheilaT Jun 2012 #19
Did you get the check? Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #20
Just got it today! WOOOHOOO!! K8-EEE Jun 2012 #21
Good. I'm glad to hear it. And to heck with your BIL. Common Sense Party Jun 2012 #22
The clincher is that they visited us in May and got the royal treatment K8-EEE Jun 2012 #23
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