Stocks

Who knew? We wanted to transfer some money into Alex's custodial stock account with Sharebuilder. Little did we know that you have to be a resident in the U.S. to use the service we've been using for 10 years. They told us that they have to shut down all of our accounts and we need to find a brokerage firm here in Japan to transfer our stocks into. Yeah right, like we'll be able to do that since everything here is in English...NOT! Spending my Sunday trying to find an international brokerage firm and it has not been easy. All of the U.S. firms require that you live in the U.S.