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A Social Security personal account is an excellent retirement planning tool. Current and future social security benefits recipients can use their accounts to plan, execute, and...
The financial crisis of 2007-2008 has lasting economic impacts. In the fall of 2008, the US gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 4.3 percent. Two well-researched...
Quitclaim deeds are irreversible. Before you go and add your new spouse to the deed, you need to learn all you can learn about them. What...
Reality Check: The Payment You Can Breathe With You don’t need another “rate hack.” You need a mortgage payment that lets you sleep. Too many of...
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Reality Check You sold the old house but the new one closed first. Now you’re sitting on a chunk of cash and a monthly payment that...
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You can tell a lot about someone’s economic standing by their mortgage application. The size of the down payment. The type of loan. The number of...
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Reality Check You don’t wake up planning to get scammed. No one does. It starts with a “fraud alert” text that looks real, a too-slick investment...
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If your property tax bill jumped like it found a pre-workout, don’t just grumble—appeal it. Assessments aren’t infallible. They’re models, with human inputs. That means they...
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The Fast Answer (Start Here) If your current first-mortgage rate is meaningfully lower than today’s, keep it. A HELOC (or fixed second) lets you access equity...
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Middle-class life looks different in every corner of America. In some states, it’s a tidy three-bed ranch with a short commute; in others, it’s a condo...
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For many Americans, owning a car was long a pillar of middle-class stability. That’s shifting. Monthly car payments have now soared: the average new-vehicle payment is...
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Mortgage rates barely slipped—call it three-quarters of a point from recent highs—and yet homeowners rushed to cash-out refis like it’s 2005 with granite countertops on the...
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A handful of states—mostly in the Northeast and Midwest—are posting the strongest house-price gains right now. But before you treat rising equity like found money, remember...
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Reality Check: The Payment You Can Breathe With You don’t need another “rate hack.” You...
Reality Check You sold the old house but the new one closed first. Now you’re...
You can tell a lot about someone’s economic standing by their mortgage application. The size...