Posts Tagged ‘purchase’
Credit Rebuilding Basics, Part 4 — Rebuilding Your Credit
We’ve also provided a blueprint for how you can repair your credit before rebuilding your credit. Now for the exciting stuff—rebuilding your credit score!
Read MoreFood Budget Too High? 13 Helpful Tips When Budgeting for Food
As the second or third largest expense in your budget, the money you spend on your groceries is something you have lots of control over. It’s almost always the easiest and most effective way to reduce your cost of living.
Read MoreBuying vs. Leasing a New Vehicle – Part Two – The Risks and Benefits of Leasing
Remember, leasing is like renting so there are usage limits. This isn’t actually your vehicle.
Read MoreBuying vs. Leasing a New Vehicle – Part One – 3 Important Points to Remember
Figuring out how to pay for this expensive infrastructure is something most of us have to consider.
Read MoreWeek 4: Teaching Children About Money Can Mean Better Financial Literacy for the Whole Family
Life presents lots of opportunities to hone your own financial literacy skills and to help your children develop theirs. Deciding that you will share as much as possible with your kids can help you to be disciplined in making decisions and dealing with the impacts on you before you share with them, and that can be a good thing for the whole family.
Read MoreWeek 2: How To Live In Debt To No One
Calvin Coolidge once said, “There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as living within your means.” I like to think what he meant by this is that when you live within your means, you can hold your head high because you are beholden to no one.
Read MoreBudgeting 101 – Part 4 of 5
Lumpy expenses, as I call them, are expenses that we know (or should know) are coming down the track and will have to be incurred but only happen once in a lifetime or only once every couple, few, 5, 10 or 15 years (or so). Lumpy expenses can cause significant stress if you have not prepared for them.
Read MoreBankruptcy: My Name is Still On My Ex-Spouse’s Home
To get your name off of the mortgage, your ex-spouse will have to qualify for the mortgage, on his or her own name, when the mortgage comes up for renewal. Whether or not they qualify is up to their financial institution.
Read MoreThe Cost of Keeping Up With the Jones
We often see families putting themselves in difficult financial situations because they make purchase decisions based on emotions rather than considering the total cost. Sometimes, we have to take a step back and ask ourselves a few questions: what are these material things going to add to my overall quality of life? How are we going to pay for these purchases and what is the overall cost?
Read MoreFinancial Math – The 5% House Down-Payment
The reality is that owning a home can be the root of a myriad of problems, one of which is tied to the 5% down-payment. With mortgage insurance, you can buy a house with only a 5% down-payment. Mortgage insurance is actually required whenever your down-payment is 20% or less of the purchase price.
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