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

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Learn How Mortgages Work and What You May Need to Pay Before you make a final decision on a house, it is important to understand how mortgages work and how much you may have to pay to land the property. The lower your credit score, the more you may end up paying monthly. Thanks for reading!

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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

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Prepare by paying off debt. Hatch a plan to tackle your debt, particularly high-interest balances, to help you free up more cash. Consider strategies such as the debt snowball or avalanche methods or explore credit counseling to get a personalized action plan to attack your debt. Thanks for reading!

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Meet Doug & Laura. They Paid off $23,000 in 16 Months. | Debt Free Stories

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We put any extra money that would come in toward our debt. What are your top 3 – 5 tips for saving money/pinching pennies to put towards paying off your debt. Make paying off debt a priority. If you’re going to get serious about becoming debt free, you have to make that your first priority.

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Meet Jackie. She and Her Husband Paid off $147,000 in Debt | Debt Free Stories

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About $52,000 of that $147K was consumer debt (credit cards, a student loan, a car loan, a home improvement loan, etc.) But it wasn’t a decade of nothing but paying off debt. When we first started we couldn’t have even conceived of becoming completely debt free. What inspired you to get debt free?

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Meet Amanda & Daniel. They Paid Off $68,000 in Debt in 8 Months.

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Family and friends may think you are crazy for paying off your debt. Is there anything else you’d like to add that you think would help the readers who want to become debt free? Paying off debt can be done! Thank you, Amanda & Daniel, for being so honest with your debt free story.

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Meet Krista & Jon Who Paid Off $36,000 | Debt Free Stories

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When Jon and I were married, we acknowledged that high paying careers were not on the docket for us, knowing that we wanted to have both comfortable and generous lives we decided that we would have to be incredibly diligent with our resources. The first step in this diligence was paying off debt. Be a part of this change.

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Find out How Acadia & Her Husband Paid off $97,000 in Student Loans

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We rarely use a credit card and if we do, we pay it off right away. If we want to buy a car, we save and pay cash. This may seem like a strange answer to put in this section, but we believe in helping others when they are struggling and putting our finances towards caring for our community and others around the world.

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