Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 4, 2015

After renting an office for 12 years, we had nothing to show for it and the space was starting to feel a bit cramped. When a building in our town went into foreclosure in 2012, we considered the opportunity to own. The building offered so much potential, but needed a lot of work and we set out to renovate our dream office.

Goals 100

Goals Debt Renovation Daughter 100

Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

How to use the Rent vs. Buy Calculator The renting-vs.-buying You’ll need just seven pieces of information to use our Rent vs. Buy Calculator, things you may already know or have been tossing around in your mind: To make things easy, we made a number of assumptions about other typical costs that factor into this calculation.

Rent 52

Rent Calculators Property Taxes Buy 52

Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

We spent the next few years building our savings back up to the level we had prior to 2007. Our small business was going well, so we said so long to renting office space and purchased a commercial property in the summer of 2012. How to Build your Emergency Fund. Yep, life was good.

Debt 130

Debt Emergency Fund 2007 2020 130

Family Balance Sheet

JUNE 22, 2020

How we got to six figures of non-mortgage debt: In the summer of 2012, we found an opportunity to purchase an office building for our small business. We had been renting for over 10 years and we were ready to find a property to move our business to and eventually build our net worth. Everything looked great on paper.

Debt 130

Debt Health Insurance Insurance Budgeting 130