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Carnival of Personal Finance #384 – Time for a Laugh Edition

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” eemusings from NZ Muse presents Hybrid cars: a week in the fast lane. ” D4L from Dividend Growth Stocks presents 10 Dividend Stocks Balancing Yield And Growth , and says, “In a perfect world, income investors would not have to choose between growth or yield, they could have both. ” J.P.

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How To Recover From A Home Fire

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However, one of the presents didn’t make it via FedEx in time and I was arranging with my neighbor to pick it up and hide it on my porch in a plastic trash bag. There were no firetrucks present yet, no sirens screaming their way towards the house. You may need to haggle with them over what was covered or not.

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Save Money – Develop Important Home Owner Skills

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It’s pretty standard advice to new homeowners that they should have a lawyer present at closing, yet we didn’t. If you pay full price, you are probably being taken.Americans historically have not haggled for. Here is my take on the skills every homeowner or landlord needs to have. Know When to Get Help.

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7 Tips for a Successful Yard Sale

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Be Ready to Haggle. This presents fear to many, but here''s an easy tip. I make and print signs from our computer for just about everything, except for a few big ticket items and for that stuff I use stickers. I found the plexi-glass sign holders at a yard sale! Don''t mark it at your firm price.