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Deciding on Home Ownership

Home Ownership – Plan Before You Buy
As we mentioned yesterday, we decided to buy a townhouse in our city. It’s in a new development and we’ll have 3 bedrooms and 2 1/2 bathrooms. It’s situated about 5-7 minutes away from  the interstate, so the commute time will not change by much. It’s a big purchase, [...]

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New Leaf in 2010

Goals

I’ve been having an eventful couple of months between work and family. After some honest and tough self examination, I realized I needed to simplify my life to improve it. It’s hard for me to do this (writing this post was difficult), but I want to let you know that I’ve sold Green Panda Treehouse.
I didn’t [...]

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Living Well on Bad Credit Book Review

Book Reviews

Living Well with Bad Credit by Chris Balish and Geoff Williams is a very informative book on getting things done with a low credit score. Like my other book reviews, I just wanted to highlight a couple of chapters and let you decided if it’s something you’d be interested in to read.
Banking with Bad Credit
If you only [...]

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iPhone Money Management Apps

Budgets and Bills

With many of my friends with iPhones and iPod Touches, I was looking at free and reasonable priced personal finance apps. I shared some mortgage apps some time ago and decided that it would be good to share some useful and popular personal finance apps.

ATM Hunter (Free): If you’re out of town and need to find a ATM (preferably [...]

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Turbo Tax 2010 Review

Taxes

It’s tax season again and that means finding a way for us to get it done easily and correctly. This year I’m reviewing Turbo Tax and I wanted to share some of my thoughts as I went through their program.
Entering Business & Personal Income
Turbo Tax made it really easy to get this information. It’s done in [...]

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Tax Refunds – Not a Bad Thing

Taxes

Getting a tax refund can be a great thing or a bad deal depending on whom you speak to. Financial Samurai was sharing his take on tax refunds and I  agree with him. While some may complain you’re giving the government your money interest free, if the alternative is you spending the money on frivolous [...]

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2010 Charity Challenge

Charity

Just got back from our quick weekend getaway so I wanted to write a quick post on what I’m up to this week.
As I mentioned last month, one of my goals is support a charity in 2010 with money saved by not eating out for a week. I decided to start today and will not [...]

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Have You Filed Your FAFSA Yet?

College Life and Education

Fill Out Your FAFSA Now
You can pick up FAFSA now and get started with your financial aid for next year. It’s always good to plan ahead so you can qualify to receive more grants and rely on less on student loans.
Many students finance their education with mainly student loans, believing that’s the only way to make it through [...]

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The Progress of Closing on a House

Mortgages

Today we’re supposed to close on our house. I’m cautiously ooptimistic about it since we had the closing delayed last minutes before. I thought it might be interesting to keep a diary of the day, both as a personal record for us (it’s our first house!) and a reference for any readers buying a house.
Pre-Closing [...]

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