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A Goal Without a Plan is Just a Wish

Family Balance Sheet

The building offered so much potential, but needed a lot of work and we set out to renovate our dream office. The business softened, renovations were more costly than expected, and we were now the owners of two mortgages, our home and our business. We were excited to cross this accomplishment off our bucket list.

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Do You Track Your Cash Flow?

Family Balance Sheet

Our "Household" category could be anything from light bulbs to major home renovations. Unfortunately money doesn't just grow on trees for us to use to reduce our debts or increase our savings. I wasn't surprised that our mortgage was our number one category at 19% of our spending. I have a little investigating to do now.

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