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How to Budget (and Pay) for Yearly Bills + a FREE Speadsheet

Family Balance Sheet

Not sure how to budget for your once-a-year bills? But let me show you how to budget (and pay) for yearly bills with a strategy I’ve used for years. Years ago, April sent me into a panic and a scramble to find the funds. Action Steps to Budget and Pay for Yearly Bills: 1. auto insurance – due yearly.

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Create a Personal Escrow Account for Your Quarterly & Yearly Bills

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Our home-owner’s insurance, auto insurance, and local real-estate taxes (for our home and our business property) are due, and on top of that, we also owed the Federal government this year. I started our personal escrow account years ago, when we refinanced our mortgage. April is always a very expensive month for us.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Yeah, There’s a Calculator for That Refinancing your mortgage to a lower rate and paying the same amount is an interesting sound-byte from Personal Finance Bloggers – but has anyone really run the numbers? 20′s Finances: Hiring a Property Manager: What it Offers You Real Estate Investments can be time consuming.

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Pros and Cons of Paying Off Your Mortgage Early

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Find Peace of Mind Peace of mind is another strong motivator towards getting the mortgage paid off. These differ greatly between lenders so it pays to find out what actually applies to your mortgage. If you are in the speculative real estate market, your situation is different again. Or if you haven’t why not?