Mortgage

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Are you ready to walk away from your mortgage?

The stock market has enjoyed a small bounce the last couple of days, but the real estate market will take a little longer to recover. A lot of people have seen the value of their homes drop by 30-40% over the last couple of years, and with job layoffs at their highest in decades many [...]

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The Crisis Of Credit

One of the great things about the blogosphere is the large number of blogs that there are to read. Each blog has its own style and content, which allows you to uncover a vast amount of information. As with most things, you can’t simply believe everything you read, but the majority of the information you [...]

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Five for Friday! – February 13, 2009

I hope you have had a great week. There has been a lot of movement in the political arena with the compromising on the “Economic Stimulus” bill. Even though the final number is down from the original number, there is no way this bill will stimulate the economy the way the media is reporting. It [...]

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Five for Friday (on Saturday January 24)

It is amazing how quickly the week speeds by when you are really busy at work. So quickly that this week’s ‘Five for Friday’ wasn’t ready on Friday, but that didn’t stop other bloggers from posting some interesting articles. Here they are: Peter at Bible Money Matters shares his journey down refinance lane FMF presents [...]

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Financial Goals for 2009 (part 3)

We are looking at financial goals for the New Year. MSN Money lists 6 financial milestones to reach before age 30. If you are already over 30, these milestones are still worth looking into, but the real question is whether or not these milestones are good goals. We will be looking at one milestone each [...]

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Is this a good time to prepay our mortgage?

You know how I feel about debt, including mortgage debt. As a matter of fact, just last week I posted about this very topic. This week I came across an article at CNNMoney.com that asked, “Is this a good time to prepay our mortgage?“. One of the interesting aspects of this article is that it [...]

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