Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

Is your bank nickel and diming you with their bullshit fees?  Learn how to avoid them and dispute the ones you may have already been charged.   Banks have enough of your money that they use to make more money for themselves.  Don’t let them steal more with tacked on fees.   Maintenance fee, minimum balance fee, foreign transaction fee, paper statement fee.  Those are just a sampling of the fees that some banks charge.   Banks rake in a ton of cash on these fees because they know a lot of people either won’t notice them at all or if they do notice them, can’t be bothered to dispute them because calling the bank is a hassle.   It just takes some research.  There are banks that don’t charge fees and various types of accounts that don’t come with fees.  There is usually some kind of catch, you need to have direct deposit, pay a bill via the bank’s auto-pay system, or maintain a certain balance.  Banks offer new accounts that are fee free but check the fine print.  The fee-free period may only last a certain lengt