Your mortgage (or your rent) is probably one of the single biggest pieces of your monthly budget. And technically there’s nothing wrong with setting this expense up on an auto-pay plan through your checking account. In fact, if you’re trying to get your finances under control, auto-pay is a great strategy to make sure you…
These home renovation mistakes should be avoided at all costs Home renovations can be intimidating for homeowners to take on. Unfortunately, there are plenty of opportunities for things to go wrong and often those mistakes can end up costing you a lot of money to fix. Although it’s unlikely your renovation will be mistake-free, being…
There are many investors that believe the era of buy and hold is dead. The idea is that investments don’t perform as they used to, and so the modern investor must come up with alternative methods of accumulating wealth in order to retire with their desired standard of living. To accomplish this, many have turned…
If you’re looking at buying a property that needs some work, or updating your own home to make it more marketable when the time comes to sell, you need to know what you’re in for. Remodeling costs can get expensive in a hurry, and if you’re not careful, you may end up with a half…
Millennials are coming to the age where money feels like it is being thrown right out the window each time a rent check is written to the landlord. In short, they are tired of renting, so what is the solution? Most millennial renters have set goals high, and believe buying a home is in the…
Although buying a house is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, purchase you are likely to make in your entire life, many borrowers forget how easy it is to make errors that can result in significant financial losses. It’s all the more surprising when you consider that it’s quite easy to avoid them,…