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How to Determine Home Value

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Knowing how to calculate your home’s value with the help of online tools and trained professionals better prepares you to buy, sell, refinance, tap into your home’s equity — or even negotiate lower property taxes. So it’s always a good idea to talk to a local real estate expert to get more insight.

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Seven Retirement Lessons Learned

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Hubby is one of those lucky few that actually has a pretty safe pension – one that also comes with health plans (which cover me as well) – so calculating his was easy. Our alternate income streams include an inherited IRA, real estate rental income and dividends/interest from investments.

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11 Things I learned After Owning a Vacation Property

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I also wanted a bit more diversification in our portfolio and figured an additional piece of real estate could help that. It was a brand new small development built on the site of a previous resort. For the first few years, I used the on site manager to run the property rentals. The new dock was not yet built.

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Yakezie Carnival October 16, 2011- Growth Edition

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Live Real, Now: Make Extra Money, Part 6: Setting Up a Site In this installment of the Make Extra Money series, LRN is going to show you how to set up a WordPress site. The return on this strategy is relatively paltry, as this calculator shows! You will learn exactly what settings, plugins, and themes he uses.

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Yakezie Carnival – Credit Cards Edition

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It is important to understand as much as you can about how your car insurance rates are calculated and to debunk the popular car insurance myths. Frugal Confessions : A Great Site to Sign up for Email Offers – Learn about this great tool to hone your frugal skills like I do! Read on to learn more! Wait, what?