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Money Matters: How to Prepare Your Finances for a Recession

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Nobody knows for sure whether we’ll see a recession or not,” said Amy Maliga, financial educator with Take Charge America, a nonprofit credit counseling and debt management agency. Prepare by paying off debt. Hatch a plan to tackle your debt, particularly high-interest balances, to help you free up more cash.

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What Is A Home Equity Loan?

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Key takeaways A home equity loan allows you to borrow a lump sum against your home’s equity, usually at a fixed interest rate that’s lower than other forms of consumer debt. The interest rate you receive on a home equity loan (as with other loans) will vary depending on your lender, credit score, income and other factors.

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Secret tips to creating an online savings budget – Is this the way to financial freedom?

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Check out this guest post by Angela from Debt Consolidation Care: It needs no mention that budgets and savings play a pivotal role in assisting consumers in paying off debt. You can even use an online budget planner that is an online tool to ensure creating the best budget according to your financial needs.

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Find out how Charissa and Her Husband Paid Off $7665 of Debt and Cash Flowed College

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How much debt did you pay off? What kind of debt was it? We paid off $7,665 worth of credit cards, school loans and a car loan. We started paying it off when we got married and became debt free just shy of our second anniversary. What inspired you to become debt free?

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How Angela & Jeff paid off $58,000 of Debt in 2 Years

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I’m a Grade 7 teacher and my husband is a Mac Tools distributor. We had two student loans that still had balances, even though we’d already been paying on them for 10 years. We also had four credit cards, two lines of credit, and a car loan. We owed money to just about everybody.

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How to Start a Budget (and be successful at it!)

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Many years ago, our cash flow sucked, we put Christmas on a credit card, and I wasn’t sure how I was going to pay for a large tax bill. I came up with strategies to help us pay for yearly bills, large expenses, and we were able to pay off debts. During that time, I started to budget for everything.

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Find out how Jessica & Her Husband Paid off $175,000 of Debt

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What kind of debt was it? Total, we paid off $175K in 2 years!! 130K in mortgage debt. 10K in car payments, $35K in credit card debt. We made the decision to tackle our debt back at our home church in Chattanooga. If married, who initiated the debt free goal? How long did it take you?

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