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Get your FREE Family Balance Sheet Excel Spreadsheet

Family Balance Sheet

Back in October 2003, I left a corporate career as a department store buyer with a nice reliable paycheck and benefits– including health insurance –to join my husband in the land of self-employment. I feel strongly that everyone should understand how their assets stack up against their liabilities/debts. What changed? .

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Compare Current VA Loan Rates

Savings Corner

Existing debt: Ideally, your total amount of monthly debt obligations (including your mortgage and other loans) shouldn’t account for more than 41% of your monthly pre-tax income. Surviving spouses of veterans who died while in service, died from a service-connected disability, went missing in action or were a prisoner of war.

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Richard Liu’s Company JD.com Appears On The Fast Track For Early 2019

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

As a young man studying at Renmin University, he had tried to enter the restaurant business, but he was unable to generate the interest he had hoped and ended up in debt after closing it. But then hard times came again when China got hit with SARS in 2003, and when once again faced with closing down, he had another idea.

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