My Greatest Financial Coup?
Monday, October 15, 2007
Spurred on by a contest on www.gettingrichslowly.com - I am thinking:
WHAT WAS MY GREATEST FINANCIAL COUP?
It doesn't boil down to any one event. The coup is -not to be intimidated by the authorities when in the right - and to know that EVERYTHING IS NEGOTIABLE..
That started when I was accepted at college, and they wanted me to be a commuter, but I wanted to stay in the dorms. It was my first instance of what I call "Playing Lawyer" and I proved to them that it just wasn't practical for me to commute due to bus schedules, etc. So I got into the dorm!
THINKING LIKE A LAWYER - that is logically, with the existing rules and regulations in mind, providing documentation and proof of your claims, restating your case in terms of the existing rules has:
Gotten me out of parking tickets and saved my car from towing
Fought off a frivolous eviction notice from a new landlord without a lawyer!
Gotten me re-instated in a professional organization gratis after a lapse during an illness
Got the local utility company to reimburse me for 2 tires, after plates put on the street for repair caused 2 flat tires.
Even lawyers have told me that some of these causes were lost ones and I have to admit I don't win every time. But I do have a spectacular batting average.
So, learn the ins and outs of "legalistic" thinking, and do as much lawyering as you can yourself. (There's an old adage that going to court means you have already lost...) I highly recommend www.nolopress.com and the nolo press series of self-help law books written clearly for the lay person. Knowledge is power, especially in this litigious age!
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Bravo!
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