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Mortgage Refinancing: What Is It And How Does It Work?

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Key takeaways Refinancing replaces your current mortgage with a new one, adjusting the rate, term or both. With refinancing, you can change the loan type as well as your lender. Here’s how refinancing a mortgage works, the common options available to you and pros and cons to consider. What is refinancing?

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Family Office Manager

Family Balance Sheet

Instead, he shared the story about Susan, a wife, and mother who handled all of the financial tasks in her home, from budgeting to making investment decisions. But with my corporate background and interest in personal finance, my husband and I agreed that I would handle all of the day-to-day financial tasks for our home.

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Get your FREE Family Balance Sheet Excel Spreadsheet

Family Balance Sheet

The spreadsheet listed our short-term and long-term account balances, our debts, and our short-term and long-term financial goals. We are working towards some pretty big financial goals and we’ve hit quite a few already. I STILL use our spreadsheet today. I don’t want him to feel that way.

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What Is Financial Planning? | Bankrate

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Bankrate’s AdvisorMatch can connect you to a CFP® professional to help you achieve your financial goals. Here’s what financial planning is all about and what you need to know to get started. What is a financial plan? These are some of the largest issues when it comes to financial planning.

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Small Money Mistakes That Have Big Consequences

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Ignoring Your Debt Debt is not just going to go away, you must handle it and work to whittle it away. Not Having a Financial Plan Having clear financial goals helps you control spending and increase savings because you know where you are headed. Make establishing an emergency fund a priority.

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Our 2017 Debt Freedom Plan Update

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It wasn’t that we had friction over money in our marriage, but as the business & Family Office Manager , I had taken on the stress of that cash flow crisis and tried to work it all out by myself. This new strategy had us looking in the same direction with regards to our financial future and my husband was on board.

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