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Benefit from My Financial Mistakes

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

My parents scrimped and saved for years to send my brother and I through state university. Consequently, I overpaid for cars and real estate my entire life and I let others underpay me for my services. Here are some of my financial mistakes. I hope that by sharing these with you, it will help you to learn from my mistakes.

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How to Say No When a Sibling Asks for Money

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

We are raised by parents to be nice to our brothers and sisters, to care for them and about them and to share with them – after all, they are family. Whether or not you can give it, or even should give it – you feel guilty if you do not. Forget About Guilt Give yourself permission to NOT feel guilty. Only 1 day left.

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11 Things I learned After Owning a Vacation Property

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

I also wanted a bit more diversification in our portfolio and figured an additional piece of real estate could help that. To top it off, she owned one of the units; and her brother owned another. What advice would you give? I wanted a place for our family to gather – adult children and grandchildren along with us.

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Money Management Edition #231

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. ” FG presents A Tale of Two Brothers posted at Financial God , saying, “One of my favourite books is ‘Economics in One Lesson’, by Henry Hazlitt. Real Estate.

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