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Smart Safety: Paying a Landlord by App

Motherhood Moments

According to CNN , hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of fraud is occurring on the popular peer-to-peer payment service, and banks aren’t reimbursing 90 percent of the victims. Of course they’ll help you recover your money if you’re defrauded, just like they would if your credit card information were stolen. It seems safe.

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Money Matters: Brilliant Hacks to Consider Before Purchasing a New Home

Motherhood Moments

Image via Unsplash It is true that the idea of buying a home continues to be the American dream, but one look at the real estate market will tell you that purchasing a property is getting more expensive all of the time. The lower your credit score, the more you may end up paying monthly.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Since there seems to be so much in the news lately about credit cards- the good ones, the bad ones, the ugly ones, the fee free ones, the reward ones, the secured ones, etc. I figured I would talk about credit cards as today’s theme. Funancials : Should I Cancel My Credit Card? Futures introduction.

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Buying A House In 2023: A Step-By-Step Guide

Savings Corner

This year may go down in real estate history as the year of correction. After a pandemic-fueled, seller-benefitting boom — with bidding wars, inventory shortages and spiraling prices all over the country — the housing market began to cool down in 2022. Learn other ways to get your free credit report and score.

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Should You Save Or Invest Your Money?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Saving means that you deposit a sum of money, which you can generally add to over time, into an account with a bank, credit union, savings and loan or other financial institution. The bank uses your money for lending and pays you a pre-determined interest rate for that privilege. What About Debt? What Should You Do? .

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How Long Should You Keep Financial Documents

Family Balance Sheet

Bank Statements - One nice thing (among many) about the electronic age is that banks keep statements online up to a couple of years. Our personal bank has statements online all the way back to 2006. You should keep any credit card receipts to match up with your statement. Retirement/ Savings/Brokerage Statements -.

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Why Save Money in a Low Interest Rate Environment?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Both are now old enough to open a bank savings account. I would go into the bank with my stubby little hands clutching my months worth of allowance (total of $1), deposit it and see the results right off printed in my book. Trepidation about having the grand-kids open a savings account. Back then I had a passbook.

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