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Personal Finance

Benefits of Consolidating Financial Accounts

Managing personal finance can be a difficult task, especially when trying to juggle multiple financial accounts. Just remembering the user name and password for multiple sites can be a chore, much less learning each site’s user interface, remembering where your assets are located, setting up a system to automate investment contributions bill pay, etc. There [...]

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Carnival of Financial Planning – Edition #150 – July 16, 2010

Best Personal Financial Planning and Personal Investment Articles this Week from Personal Finance Blogs Welcome to the July 16, 2010 Edition #150 of the Carnival of Financial Planning. The Carnival of Financial Planning takes a long-term view of personal financial planning for individuals and families. We focus on efficient and sustainable personal financial planning practices [...]

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10 Tips for Buying a New Car

Buying a new vehicle is stressful. Think about it for a moment – most car buyers are at a distinct disadvantage when buying a new car. Most people only buy a new car at most, once or twice a decade. And you are going up against people who do this for a living. That’s like [...]

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How To Negotiate A New Car Price

People who are looking to buy a new car are historically anxious about getting a good deal because of the legacy of the car salesman. Well-versed salesmen know how to make a deal seem like the best thing since sliced bread only to have the buyers later find out the deal made was only in [...]

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Types of Mortgages

My wife and I recently started looking at homes, and one of the topics we have discussed is the type of mortgage we want to get when we buy our new home. We thought our biggest decision would be choosing between a 15 Year and 30 Year Mortgage – that is, until we saw the [...]

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How to Create a Household Budget

Do you know how to make a zero based budget? Having a household budget allows you to match and keep track of your incoming money with your outgoing money. Knowing where your money goes each month is the best way to take control of your family finances, save for the future and prevent or get [...]

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Can’t Make Ends Meet? Try a Three Fold Approach to Better Finances

I recently received an e-mail from a reader who was having trouble making ends meet. Due to setbacks in the economy, he was having trouble finding stable work and had to move from a house to a small apartment to make things work. Even then he is having trouble with student loan bills, car payments, [...]

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