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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 higher your credit score, the lower your payment or interest rate.

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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. Whatever the economic state of the real estate market, buying a house can be an exciting and emotional process. Get started: Contact several local real estate agents and talk with them about your needs before choosing one.

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The Top Three Ways People Get Rich

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

If you have the talent and stomach for investing using other people’s money, you might make billions. He started investing with other people’s money way back in 1956 using funds only from friends and family. Real Estate. Real estate is a field with possibilities for the average gal and guy.

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4 Crazy Hard Things To Check On When Buying a Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We’ve only bought 4 pieces of real estate in our lives, including two homes. Understand what regulations there are on the use of the property. will save you the inconvenience of slicing through them while putting in new landscaping (this actually happened to us). Plans For Future Development. Quiz the current owner.

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How to Create a Family Balance Sheet + Get a FREE one for your family!

Family Balance Sheet

Debts still need to be paid, cars will need new parts, homes will need to be repaired, and kids will need braces. I STILL use our spreadsheet today. You could also use a recent appraisal. Net worth is used often in regards to wealthy families, but honestly, it’s a formula everyone should embrace. Where did we over-spend?

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7 Reasons to Lease Your Vacation Condo

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

After 7 years of renting it to vacationers on a nightly basis, and using it occasionally ourselves, I have decided to let a local company lease it on a yearly basis. Ours did and they were twice as high as the residential real estate taxes! We own a vacation condo lakefront in the Branson area. You are tired of traveling to it.

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The Cost of Doing Nothing

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

The US Secretary of State, currently John Kerry today (2013-08-30) in a newscast on the possibility of intervening in Syria due to chemical weapons used there, claimed that there is a high and immediate cost of the US doing nothing in response to that use. I had to learn some of these do nothing cost lessons the hard way.