The Frugal Girl

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We rented at first, but the rental situation in our new town was poor. While we were still renting an apartment, I researched areas with lower property taxes, scouted out my ideal neighborhoods, and waited for a smaller, less expensive house to come on the market. Childhood joy.

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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.

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Family Balance Sheet

MAY 6, 2020

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. Also to top it off, I had a huge property tax due that month for our office building that was going to be difficult to pay for in light of the circumstances. Yep, life was good.

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Savings Corner

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Would renting for another year or two improve your financial standing? Shop around carefully based on how much you’re able to pay upfront. Get started: Shop around with at least three lenders or a mortgage broker to increase your chances of getting a low interest rate. Make a list of what’s important to you in a home.

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The Frugal Girl

MARCH 4, 2024

We live on the side of a small mountain in a quiet, rural town, but we’re less than 20 miles from a city of about 25,000 people and its shopping and dining opportunities. I still remember saving my change as a kid so I could “shop” for books at yard sales.) Alan and I, by choice, bought land in an area with low property taxes.

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Prairie Eco-Thrifter

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Know what you are getting into with home ownership – it may not be cheaper than renting! At that, we were luckier than some, who in areas around us lost their entire property (well they were paid a pittance for it) so that a race track and shopping area could be built. Today, I share a few of those things with you.

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