Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 22, 2013

Instead of letting your real estate agent own the house hunting process for you, look online before forging out. If you are more detail oriented, give yourself a bit more time. 5 Home Buying Fundamentals to Remember Which Home Renovations Really Pay Off? Look Online. Look At More Than One. Know yourself, as well.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 6, 2011

Millionaires often invest in rental and commercial real estate. Parking the car at a neighborhood garage sale and walking the neighborhood lets you legitimately into the neighborhood and gives you access to all kinds of residents to ask those questions you need answered about the location. To See Other Neighborhoods.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 13, 2014

Some of the costs you may encounter in a real estate transaction can be quite expensive. Real Estate agent commission : Negotiable! In addition they paid the real estate commission of 12,639 (6% – which was split 50-50 between two different realtors) as well as a first and second mortgage.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 27, 2014

My Dad offered my spouse and I the opportunity to buy his starter home (which he had converted to a rental) at a very attractive price. Consequently, I overpaid for cars and real estate my entire life and I let others underpay me for my services. I refused to accept offered help. I didn’t leverage my money well.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Not paying your real estate taxes. Eventually he could not pay the real estate taxes and the home was put on the county’s tax lien sale auction. Giving away money you need to survive. Should You Buy a House Now? An acquaintance of mine inherited a 4 bedroom/2 bath home free and clear of any debt.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

At the end of the rental term, the buyer can buy the home at the price both parties agreed on, and they’re already part of the way there. A seller who wants to advertise a potential rent-to-own deal can still use many traditional realty advertising methods, such as a local paper and real estate websites, to showcase their properties.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 4, 2012

With the rocky markets, many investors are looking for ways to protect themselves on the down side even if they have to give up a little upside. You cannot buy or sell an index because an index is only representative of a basket of stocks, it does not contain the actual stocks. Passive Income With Real Estate.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

You have to give it space and time (lots of time) to grow into a huge money producer. He never earned more than $46,000 per year, but he turned that into several million dollars, most of which he’s giving away. Put the dividends and capital gains to work buying more shares. You can do this. Many others have done it.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JUNE 5, 2012

Whether or not you can give it, or even should give it – you feel guilty if you do not. Perhaps your sibling has a drug problem and wants to buy more drugs with the money. We all know that giving or lending money to a friend or relative can be a recipe for disaster. How do you determine when enough is enough?

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Penny Pinchin' Mom

JANUARY 16, 2024

Automate Your Contributions This is something I have decided to do with my kids: as soon as anyone turns 18, I’m going to give them $500 as a start-up investment in their Roth IRA. Things like your savings account, your retirement fund, your house, investments accounts, real estate…these are all assets.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Real estate business If property is your passion, there are several ways you can serve other businesses, or even individuals, with your real estate business. You could start your own real estate agency, working with businesses or private citizens to find the office space, house or apartment that’s right for them.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 31, 2012

Some retirees have real estate, stocks, mutual funds and the like but if you are really looking for specific cash flows, you might want to take a look at bond allocation in your portfolio. They give you the ability to manage your cash flows. Buy Bonds with Differing Maturities. Diversify Bond Holdings Within a Portfolio.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

For example, financial advisors can help you plan for retirement, budget, plan your estate and more. For instance, some people might want to buy a house soon while others are focusing on saving for retirement. This can be anything from starting to invest, buying real estate, saving for an emergency or retirement, or something else.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JULY 18, 2011

When you start to look at your money and the things you buy as investments and expenses, it will totally change your spending habits. For example, buying food and paying rent do not make you any money. So start looking at each thing you buy as an investment. There may not be a better time to buy than right now.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 2, 2011

shopping for savings by comparing prices, using coupons, coupon codes and other discounts and making sure they are buying the teacher specified items. learning to give by having them donate last years clothing. In our neighborhood folks buy really nice name brand clothing for their kids. Bulk buys can be a lot cheaper.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 6, 2012

It’s modeled much like Michael Pollans Food Rules with many one-page rules that give short but useful tidbits of information. Real Estate. If you are in college and wondering how to put money aside, saving money may not even be a question because of the massive amounts of college debt that you are facing.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 11, 2015

I also wanted a bit more diversification in our portfolio and figured an additional piece of real estate could help that. Before buying (being somewhat of a math nerd) I ran projections on likely scenarios on income and expenses. What advice would you give? This doesn’t come cheap, but provides peace of mind.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

AUGUST 23, 2012

With interest rates at all time lows, more foreclosures coming on the market and prices at decade low levels, you may be looking to buy a home or investment property. To get the best deal when buying your house, you have to negotiate. To get the best buy on new furniture to fill your house, you have to negotiate. Persistence.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

APRIL 21, 2014

Then there are folks like Carl Icahn, who buy up companies in hostile takeovers and then sell off the pieces for personal gain. These are folks like super star blogger Pat Flynn over at Smart Passive Income who figure out what people are looking for and give it to them. Real Estate. Some lucky few inherit money.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 10, 2012

” A Blinkin presents Should I Buy A House? Let me give you the full story: I have been dating Miss Blinkin for approximately 1 year and 4 months. Without giving too much information, I foresee an engagement in the coming months. MR presents Is Now The Time To Buy Real Estate?

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 31, 2012

She charged up credit cards to buy food and clothing. She stopped paying income tax on the rare occasions when she did have income and did not pay county real estate taxes. A car will allow you to keep more stuff, give you some privacy and provide a place for you to sleep if needed. Eventually the inheritance ran out.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

MAY 26, 2016

What can you even buy for $.06? While the grand-kids savings account alternatives are slim – save in a piggy bank or buy that new toy, adults have a few other options. Of course, depending on what we buy, we may experience some buyers remorse. Six measly cents. Pretty much nothing. Investing requires financial backing.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

NOVEMBER 12, 2011

My Journey to Millions: No Research Reasons Why I Like Mature Dividend Paying Stocks – While most people don’t talk about it in this manner anymore, when you buy a share of a company you are buying into the business. If I am to buy into any business I want to know revenue, profit, and how I am going to share in those amounts.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Money Cone: 9 Impulse Buys that Turned Out Better than Expected We’ve all bought stuff based on commercials that turned out nothing like how it was advertised. Sometimes we buy stuff on a whim, only to be disappointed later. But not all my impulse buys have been duds. That man was Steve Jobs. Shamwow guy, you listening?)

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Either way, a passive income gives you extra security. You just give the work upfront.” In reality, you won’t earn anything if you can’t attract readers to your site to click on the link and buy something. You’ll have to really know the market so that you’re not buying at a price that’s too high.

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 21, 2015

Include anything that you’d like to add to give the reader an idea about your personality. We have the money now to buy 20 dining room sets if we wanted to, but we are opting to live as frugally as possible now. Once we max them out, we hope to put excess cash into real estate and potentially additional brokerage accounts.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Keeping your mortgage gives a guaranteed 6% return on investment which compounds over the 30 year term; other investment options may be a less safe bet, with no guarantee that you will get a higher rate of return. If you are in the speculative real estate market, your situation is different again. Here’s what you.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

JANUARY 14, 2012

Part of it due to the Dodd-Frank Financial Reform Act, but I also give a lot of credit to the jingles of Freecreditreport.com. The only investing strategy that makes sense to me is buy and hold. Buy an energy efficient water heater. After checking and rechecking and I discover the real cost of eating out!

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Family Balance Sheet

JANUARY 17, 2018

I want to challenge myself to rethink our purchases by taking advantage of more cost effective solutions, like borrowing, buying second hand, or just making do with what we already have. What We Won’t Give Up: My motto has always been “living well on less” and now it will be “living well on (even) less”. Choose Thrift First.

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