October 2009

3 Essential Money Saving Fall Tasks

10.30.2009 by Craig Ford 1 comment

Sometimes spending a little money today can save a lot of money tomorrow.  Common sayings support this notion: a stitch in time saves nine and don’t be penny smart and pound foolish.  A predictable characteristic of the poor is that decisions are made for today without any regard for tomorrow.  However, there a few fall [...]

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$6500 home-buyer tax credit for current homeowners

10.29.2009 by Bob 205 comments

Apparently all the talk about the $8000 first-time homebuyer tax credit being extended and expanded is coming to pass. According to a USA Today article… “Senators agreed to extend the existing tax credit for first-time home buyers while offering a reduced credit of up to $6,500 to repeat buyers who have owned their current homes for at least five years”

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Our new house!

10.29.2009 by Bob 25 comments

Well, yesterday we closed on our first house. It was a pretty eventful day – a lot of moving parts all coming together at the same time. Building our house has been a fun and occasionally stressful task, but we can now say that it is behind us and get started living in it! We [...]

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How to Pay Off Your Mortgage Early

10.28.2009 by Joe Plemon 71 comments
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Buying a home is a major expense – and a major debt. It’s said it’s the biggest purchase you’ll make in your life. A traditional mortgage loan is repaid over the course of 30 years, but today, some terms call for up to 40 years of repayment. To some, three or four decades seem like an interminable amount of time to take to pay off a debt… These are 4 simple ways to pay off your mortgage early!

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Is the 401k a bad idea?

10.27.2009 by Bob 24 comments

This week Time Magazine had a thought-provoking article titled Why it’s time to retire the 401(k). The article is pretty long and detailed and as you would expect it points out many of the flaws of the 401(k) and argues that for many people it is doing more harm than good. History of the 401(k) [...]

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5 small business owner retirement plans

10.26.2009 by Jay Peroni 1 comment

Many times people come into my office looking for advice on how to appropriately plan their financial future. Asset location is often just as important as asset allocation. While asset allocation looks to spread your assets among many different assets classes, asset location helps you spread your assets among taxable, tax-deferred, and potentially tax-free accounts. Many who are employed by a corporation have retirement planning options at work, but what about the business owner? How do you choose the best location for your assets and that of your employees?

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3 new credit card fees you should know about

10.25.2009 by Bob 10 comments

I was just listening the morning radio show that I normally wake up to and they pulled me out of my slumber a little quicker than usual when they started talking about credit cards. Apparently since all the new rules for credit card companies go into effect in a few months, many of them are [...]

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Freedom from extreme frugality

10.24.2009 by Guest 8 comments

This article was written by  Branden who regularly writes for his blog FaithFitnessFinance.com. Finding the freedom to spend When it comes to being frugal, paying off debt, saving for retirement, and actively pursuing long-term financial goals, I am a zealot. You see, I’m a big picture kind of guy. I have a natural propensity to [...]

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