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The Best Thing To Do In Your 20’s – #FLMonth

April 11, 2011

Tweet Josh Levitt of Levitt Coaching brings us today’s Financial Literacy Month question. This is another great thought question. Make sure you leave your reasons with your answer. As with all of these questions, it’s the thought process that’s important, not so much the actual answer. We’d love to hear what you think.

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What Matters to You? – #FLMonth

April 8, 2011

Tweet Today’s Financial Literacy Month question really requires some thought. It’s the most personal question yet. If you’re married, be sure and talk about it with your spouse as well. Don’t just assume that you’re on the same page. Thanks for this great question goes to Brad Chaffee from Enemy of Debt.

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Accelerate Your Mortgage Part One

March 23, 2011

Tweet We have been in a fairly severe mortgage crisis in our country. I cannot believe the number of For Sale signs that I see in yards as I drive around. It’s so sad to see people’s dreams crumble like that. It’s too bad that so many people have been sold down the river by […]

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Too Much Month Left at the End of Your Paycheck

September 13, 2010

Tweet A recent study by CareerBuilder found that the number of people living from paycheck to paycheck has continued to increase from 2009. Their survey of nearly 5000 respondents found that 77% were just covering their expenses when each paycheck arrived. That’s up from 61% in 2009’s survey. Does this describe you? Are you scrambling […]

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Creative Financing for Dummies

May 1, 2010

Tweet Dyan and I were doing some book shopping at our favorite bookstore (Goodwill) and ran across this title, Creative Home Financing. Wow. An entire book for that? I can sum it up in three words DON’T DO IT! Okay, so maybe I cheated a bit with the contraction. I’ll go ahead and allow four words. […]

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