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Showing posts with label quicken 2010. Show all posts

2/28/2012

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Personal Deluxe Review

Quicken Lawyer 2002 Personal Deluxe
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When our insurance guy recommended an estate planner and told us he would give us a great deal and only charge $1500 for our living trust and wills, we immediately looked to Nolo. Six months ago, they hadn't partnered with Quicken to provide this product so we bought the Willmaker/Living Trust Bundle here on ... They ought to call it a bundle because of what it saved us. It was easy to use, easy to understand, and saved us a ton of money. I can only imagine that the partnership with Quicken has made it even better. I've used their products for years in my business, and I don't think there are any better. Get this and do yourself a favor.

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Help protect your family, your assets, and yourself, and save on legal fees. Quicken Lawyer 2002 Personal combines the latest versions of both WillMaker and Living Trust Maker with other legal tools you can use every day, all in one package. Simply launch Quicken Lawyer to create your own:
Will
Living trust
Powers of attorney
Living will
Authorizations and agreements
Child- and elder-care forms
Documents for your executor
For each document, Quicken Lawyer 2002 takes you through a step-by-step interview. Your documents will automatically reflect the laws of your state. If you have any questions, simply check out the comprehensive legal manual, online or in print. Expert tech support is also available.
Create a will with Quicken Lawyer 2002 and make sure you've provided for family, friends, and charities. Name a personal guardian to care for your minor children and select a trusted person to manage property left to young people. Also, create your living will. Outline medical procedures you want provided, specify whether or not you want your life prolonged through artificial means, and appoint someone to make sure your wishes are carried out. Grant as much authority as you wish with forms for power of attorney. Name someone to make your financial decisions, in case you are medically incapacitated, and appoint an alternate in case that person cannot serve. Plus, get a number of other legal documents for everyday use, such as child-, elder-, and pet-care agreements, membership or subscription cancellation notices, and many more.

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12/20/2011

Quicken 2009 Premier Review

Quicken 2009 Premier
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I purchased Quicken 2009 in hopes of upgrading from the discontinued Microsoft Money product. I have been a long time user of Microsoft Money and have a lot of data to transfer. Currently, the transfer process is very cumbersome. You need to rename your accounts & categories to fit within the smaller naming conventions of Quicken. There are multiple reports you need to print out which a separate Quicken utility uses to import the transactions. And finally, there is a limit of 10,000 transactions that can be imported. I have tried to import multiple batches of transactions to stay under limits but no go.
Overall, still very difficult to upgrade from MS Money to Quicken 2009. Intuit has said they will fix this in the 2010 Quicken product and I look forward to that.

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Quicken Premier offers an easy way to track and manage your investments in one place, so you can grow your net worth.

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9/02/2011

Quicken 2004 Basic Review

Quicken 2004 Basic
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I've used Quicken since 1994 when I bought my first computer and Quick 2.0 came preinstalled. Since then I've tried MS-Money twice. I keep going back to Quicken. It's intuitive, logical and makes reconciling the check book a breeze. I admit that my finaces are fairly simple and others may need the deluxe or small business versions of the program, but I think for the average person the basic program is perfect. I don't upgrade every year. I don't think there's a need to. I up grade about every two to three years. The program is very stable. I haven't had problems with bugs or crashes in any version. I highly recommend it.

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7/27/2011

Landlord's Tenant Management Pro By Socrates Review

Landlord's Tenant Management Pro By Socrates
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This program is supposed to produce reports itemizing vendor expenses and tenant income. There seemed to be a problem when I tried to load the program on Windows XL and again with Vista. I could never get this program to produce any reports for expenses or income. I tried to get software support online. After sending me a patch that did not work, all subsequent e-mails were ignored. This is terrible product with terrible customer service and should be avoided!! It was a complete waste of my money!

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7/11/2011

Quicken Deluxe 2010 Review

Quicken Deluxe 2010
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I purchased Quicken 2010 Deluxe today from a retail store. I believe the official release date is tomorrow, but they had it in stock for sale, although it was hidden in a corner of the store with only a few copies, so not exactly a big promotion. I installed it in about 10 minutes on my Vista laptop without any issues. The installation process first removed my Quicken 2007 software, installed Quicken 2010, checked for updates over the internet, and then converted my Quicken 2007 data file. The entire process went very smoothly.
The interface in 2010 is slightly different from 2007, but mainly just different colors and slightly different graphic formats. Other than that, I've poked around just about every feature to look for something that this product does different from 2007 and could not find much of anything. The only convenient change that I have noticed so far is that when I back up my data, the data is now contained in one file, rather than having six different files associated with the same backup.
For the price,I guess it's good to know that my software is three years newer, and likely has been tested under Windows 7 so that I will be able to upgrade my operating system in the near future without any issues. However, this upgrade confirms that you really don't need to purchase a new version of Quicken every year. Once every three years was more than enough here, and unless Intuit comes up with some revolutionary new tricks for their software, I suspect the next time I will be writing about Quicken will be in 2013.

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Quicken Deluxe 2010 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings.




Set personal finance goals and save more
Shows where you're spending and helps you see where to save
Brings your accounts together all in one place and helps you set budgeting and savings goals
Helps you stay on top of bills and avoid late fees with alerts on upcoming payments
Upgrading your Quicken? See "What's New in 2010" for the latest features and benefits



Features and Benefits
Watch your savings grow We make it easy to get on--and stay on--a budget. Set suggested spending limits and savings goals based on the information you enter into Quicken day-by-day.

An intuitive "Spending Planner" summarizes your actual spending and compares it to what you planned to spend for the month. Check your progress at a glance, and quickly see where you have room to spend or need to save more.

Quicken Deluxe can also help you create customized plans to reduce/eliminate debt--and to save for a house, college, retirement or large purchase.

See where your money's going Quicken Deluxe shows you what you have coming in, going out, and most importantly, what's left over to spend or save. Check in anytime to see exactly where your personal finances are for the week, month or year.

View your accounts all in one place Organizes your finances by bringing your online accounts together--including checking, savings and credit cards. Avoid the hassle of going to multiple websites. Now you can see it all in one place with just ONE password. Access over 6,700 banks, brokerages and other financial institutions--including PayPal.

Never miss a bill See what bills have already been paid, what's coming up, and if you have enough left in your accounts to cover them--all in one convenient place. Set reminders to pay bills on time and instantly check the status of past bills.

Simplify taxes with TurboTax Quicken Starter Edition pairs perfectly with TurboTax to save you time. Easily export your data directly to TurboTax for fast and accurate tax preparation.

Enjoy free support when you buy, install or upgrade Quicken If you need help purchasing, installing or upgrading your new Quicken personal finance software, free phone support is available. For more information, visit our Help & Support site.

Save money and shop smart Our free service--Quicken Picks--seeks out the best online coupons and discount offers just for you, on the stuff you care about. You also get cash back on all your purchases, helping you save even more. You can sign up for Quicken Picks anytime within your Quicken software.

Easily import from Microsoft Money If you've been using Microsoft Money personal finance software, we can help you transfer your valuable financial information to Quicken.4 With our easy-to-use Data Converter tool, you'll be up-and-running with Quicken in practically no time.



What's New in 2010 Already using Quicken? Reasons to upgrade now:
New--See your most important info in one place The new Quicken home page puts all your most important financial information in one easy-to-understand window, so you can see how you're doing at a glance.

Improved--Find the tools you need, faster The improved menu and toolbar make it easier to find the tools you need to help organize your personal finances.

New--Getting started is a breeze It's simpler than ever to put Quicken to work for you--so you can reach your personal finance goals faster. With the new Guided Setup, you just answer a few simple questions; we'll show you how Quicken works, and what to do next. You'll see your total financial picture come into focus even sooner than you expect.

New--Avoid late fees and penalties We help you avoid overdraft fees and penalties--by showing you how much you'll have left in your account until your next paycheck.

Improved--Check for accuracy We've made it easier to review your transactions, so you can quickly spot anything that looks inaccurate or out of place. If a transaction requires follow-up, you can flag it with a reminder.

Improved--Get tips from other Quicken users With Quicken's Live Community, you can get help and advice from other Quicken users without ever leaving Quicken. If you have a question about something specific you're trying to do, just look to Live Community on the right of the Quicken screen for the answer.


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6/12/2011

Quicken Starter Edition 2011 Review

Quicken Starter Edition 2011
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I purchased this product because I upgraded to Windows 7 and my old Quicken Deluxe is not W7 compatible. Nowhere in the product description did it mention that I would not be able to open my old files with this product since they were created on the "Deluxe" version. I no longer need any of the "Deluxe" features, that's why I chose this most basic version. So, if you have used any product other than "Basic" in the past, this product will not work for you. They should be clearer in their product description.

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Quicken Starter Edition 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings, with step-by-step guidance along the way.
View all your accounts in one place.

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Quicken Deluxe 2011 Review

Quicken Deluxe 2011
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It was bad enough when Quicken simply littered your desktop with icons linking to Quicken Loans, Free Credit Reports (which are never free) and a sundry of other financial pay-to-play products. Now they've taken things to a whole new level with ads literally BUILT INTO the GUI (Graphic User Interface: the 'skin' with which you engage with the program). An example: in the new 'refinance calculator' there is a large banner ad for CHASE BANK. The refinance calculator itself is poor and majorly inferior to free ones available online, but more on that later. I don't expect to pay upwards of $50.00 for a piece of software that contains banner ads! That is simply unacceptable. In freeware, I understand it, but not in something I paid full retail for!
Adding insult to injury, INTUIT has actually removed one of the best features of previous Quicken releases, the CASH FLOW monthly chart. They've replaced it with a projected balances chart which is ugly, harder to read, and doesn't convey nearly as much information as the previous version. A line chart is inferior for the purpose, and INTUIT hasn't even managed to make the data points (low and high balance points along the chart) display the actual balance when you mouse over them. This is a miserably bad design--they've managed to take a very useful tool and turn it into garbage.
The supposed new features are junk. The refinance calculator is extremely simplistic compared to far better online versions (check out Equitrend Financial Calculators if you're looking for sophisticated, free calculators). It doesn't allow the user to enter current mortgage interest rate or PMI, and instead makes you enter the total payment and then the "impound / escrow amount." If you have your mortgage set-up to be tracked in Quicken, the tool cannot incorporate that data into your analysis. You must manually enter everything. The tool also does not take into account the tax implications of your refinance. Overall it is a tacked on, basic calculator that is nearly useless.
The obligatory re-skin of the program (which INTUIT trots out each year rather than making substantial or meaningful changes) is adequate, but unnecessary. Every year they tweak fonts, colors, and layout, and design elements. This year is no exception. None of the changes make the program more efficient for the end user. I don't have a problem with utilitarian designs, as long as the underlying software is substantial. INTUIT seems to leverage much of their development budget into GUI tweaks, while doing little to improve the software itself.
Another major issue is that INTUIT cannot manage to keep their data file consistent from year to year. 2011 is no exception and required me to convert my 2010 data file. Admittedly this was much more painless than the massive difficulty many experienced with upgrading from 2008 or 2009 to 2010. I wish that the developers at INTUIT would make a forwards compatible data file type and just stick with it.
SUMMARY:
PROS:
1) Potentially better GUI (depending on your preferences)
CONS:
1) Ads built into the GUI itself
2) Removal of a significant feature (cash flow and balance chart)
3) No substantial improvements to the underlying programs
4) Added 'features' are poor quality, even when compared with free alternatives
5) Requires yet another data-file conversion
6) Expensive! Especially considering the ads built into the program
FINAL THOUGHTS:
What am I getting for my money here? If you love this version of Quicken, can you kindly explain to me why it is worth upgrading? I have yet to find a single compelling reason. Am I missing something or did I just flush my money down the toilet?

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Quicken Deluxe 2011 gives you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings.

Set Personal Finance Goals and Save More View all your accounts in one place.

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6/11/2011

Quicken Deluxe 2011 Review

Quicken Deluxe 2011
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It was bad enough when Quicken simply littered your desktop with icons linking to Quicken Loans, Free Credit Reports (which are never free) and a sundry of other financial pay-to-play products. Now they've taken things to a whole new level with ads literally BUILT INTO the GUI (Graphic User Interface: the 'skin' with which you engage with the program). An example: in the new 'refinance calculator' there is a large banner ad for CHASE BANK. The refinance calculator itself is poor and majorly inferior to free ones available online, but more on that later. I don't expect to pay upwards of $50.00 for a piece of software that contains banner ads! That is simply unacceptable. In freeware, I understand it, but not in something I paid full retail for!
Adding insult to injury, INTUIT has actually removed one of the best features of previous Quicken releases, the CASH FLOW monthly chart. They've replaced it with a projected balances chart which is ugly, harder to read, and doesn't convey nearly as much information as the previous version. A line chart is inferior for the purpose, and INTUIT hasn't even managed to make the data points (low and high balance points along the chart) display the actual balance when you mouse over them. This is a miserably bad design--they've managed to take a very useful tool and turn it into garbage.
The supposed new features are junk. The refinance calculator is extremely simplistic compared to far better online versions (check out Equitrend Financial Calculators if you're looking for sophisticated, free calculators). It doesn't allow the user to enter current mortgage interest rate or PMI, and instead makes you enter the total payment and then the "impound / escrow amount." If you have your mortgage set-up to be tracked in Quicken, the tool cannot incorporate that data into your analysis. You must manually enter everything. The tool also does not take into account the tax implications of your refinance. Overall it is a tacked on, basic calculator that is nearly useless.
The obligatory re-skin of the program (which INTUIT trots out each year rather than making substantial or meaningful changes) is adequate, but unnecessary. Every year they tweak fonts, colors, and layout, and design elements. This year is no exception. None of the changes make the program more efficient for the end user. I don't have a problem with utilitarian designs, as long as the underlying software is substantial. INTUIT seems to leverage much of their development budget into GUI tweaks, while doing little to improve the software itself.
Another major issue is that INTUIT cannot manage to keep their data file consistent from year to year. 2011 is no exception and required me to convert my 2010 data file. Admittedly this was much more painless than the massive difficulty many experienced with upgrading from 2008 or 2009 to 2010. I wish that the developers at INTUIT would make a forwards compatible data file type and just stick with it.
SUMMARY:
PROS:
1) Potentially better GUI (depending on your preferences)
CONS:
1) Ads built into the GUI itself
2) Removal of a significant feature (cash flow and balance chart)
3) No substantial improvements to the underlying programs
4) Added 'features' are poor quality, even when compared with free alternatives
5) Requires yet another data-file conversion
6) Expensive! Especially considering the ads built into the program
FINAL THOUGHTS:
What am I getting for my money here? If you love this version of Quicken, can you kindly explain to me why it is worth upgrading? I have yet to find a single compelling reason. Am I missing something or did I just flush my money down the toilet?

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Quicken Deluxe 2011 Download offers all the same great features as the desktop version giving you money management and budgeting tools to help you watch your spending and increase your savings.

Set Personal Finance Goals and Save More View all your accounts in one place.

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6/10/2011

Quicken Premier 2011 Review

Quicken Premier 2011
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I have a love hate relationship with Quicken. It is a great concept; it is very helpful in managing personal finances and is a program I use daily. I don't buy the upgrades every year, if they can be called upgrades, but the last version I had was Quicken 2006. I held off buying 2010 for a few months knowing 2011's release was around the corner. I learned I don't like not having access to my finances daily. During that time I tried all sorts of other types of financial programs, but none were close to Quicken, which is scary because as much as I like it, the actual program is TERRIBLE - for length of time it has been available. Mint.com(Owned by Intuit/Quicken) was the only program I thought was very good, but it is terrible for investments. Overall, I see very little difference in this version than my 2006 one; clearly there are a few new features but certainly nothing that made me jump up and down. This is pretty amazing considering the price and the 5 version "upgrades" between, but very little has actually improved. Clearly this is the benefit of having a monopoly; you can do virtually nothing for years and still have the best in breed. In 4 days of using Quicken 2011 it has crashed about 4-5 times a day, same old Quicken.
Quicken 2011 is the best personal finance program available, but the lack of innovation and true upgrades is shocking. The graphical displays are very outdated, and I find the lack of being able to increase text size mind boggling. I hope this version holds me over till the long awaited, fabled, complete overhaul. Or maybe a new company will evade being bought out by Intuit and deliver a superior product. I assume the acquisition of Mint by Intuit will start to actually improve Quicken in the next couple of years.
In conclusion, I give Quicken Premier 2011 3 stars, I can't see it being anymore and am baffled by people upgrading from an older version giving it a higher rating.
EDIT 3/12/11 - Upgrades to Quicken 2011 improved stability a couple months after I purchased. I can say this is a Stable program now on my platform. Does not change the rating.

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Quicken Premier 2011 has all of the features of Quicken Deluxe--plus investment management tools to help track your portfolio performance and help maximize your investments, with step-by-step guidance along the way.
Comprehensive investing and planning tools help you easily track, analyze, and optimize your investment portfolio.

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6/07/2011

Quicken Rental Property Manager 2011 Review

Quicken Rental Property Manager 2011
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I can't believe I paid money for this junk. Aside from the general bugginess, the unnecessary complexity of its model and the poor UI, this program simply cannot handle basic transactions that you would expect it to.
For example, if you have a typical mortgage payment comprising principal, interest and property tax escrow, there is no automated way to split the payment into those categories for tracking: you must do it yourself each time a payment is made. Also, if you make capital improvements to your property, there is no way to depreciate them -- and even if you do create a "liability account" manually, there is no way to import that information into TurboTax. Additionally, there is no way to map tenants' deposit money to transactions in a cash account: Quicken automatically puts the money into a liability account which cannot be mapped to an actual bank account.
In short: a total joke. Even worse, there is no real competition for managing the financial side of rental properties. Mint.com (owned by the same company) and all the rest are either focused on consumer finances or don't automatically download information from your bank. My advice is to get a spreadsheet and do it yourself.
The only saving grace of this product is a 60-day money-back guarantee. You can be sure I'll be using it.


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Quicken Rental Property Manager 2011 includes all of the features found in Quicken Home & Business, plus smart tools for managing your rental properties.
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