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Selling a Home By Owner is Easier Than You Think

…working with a realtor, but we requested that the buyers pay the agent’s fees, which they did. We did pay some of the closing costs, including the title insurance and…

9 Money Mistakes Couples Make and How to Avoid Them

…a supplemental plan if your employer coverage is weak. These policies pay monthly benefits if you can’t work at all, and some pay partial benefits if you can work only…

Budgeting That You Won’t Hate: The Backwards Budget

…your paycheck towards these endeavors. Create automatic bank drafts the day you get paid, or allow it to come directly from your paycheck when possible. If you learn the art…

How to Evaluate Web Design Proposals for Your Medical or Dental Practice

…high initial fee for building your website or make you pay high monthly fees. Whether in a lump sum or monthly installments, you will end up paying more than the…

Owning Rental Properties Is Smart, but I’m Out, Jack!

…payment. I like to squeeze in what amounts to a little more than one extra payment per year since it reduces the loan by such a tremendous amount over time….

Can I Become An Expert Physician Witness?

…The hours and pay scale expected The qualifications required Read more: High-Paying Medical Jobs with Minimal Schooling The FTC Noncompete Ban Negotiating Your Hospital Employment What Is An Expert Physician…

Money is Fungible & Why That Matters

…money set aside in a 529 Plan. You can pay for college with money set aside in a taxable brokerage account. You can pay for college with money languishing in…

Resident Physician Salaries

…with paying off at least $150,000 in debt. Also read: Pros and Cons: Moonlighting During Residency Considering student loan payments, interest, and the cost of living, the current resident physician…

3 Rules for Using Real Estate Investing to Create Passive Income

…4-month to 24-month range, with 12 months being quite common, tend to pay interest in the high single digits. From March, 2018 to December, 2019, I received monthly interest payments,…

Ether to FI: Moving Targets & a Net Worth Update

…I pay off my credit cards in full every week or sometimes more frequently, so I am receiving perks without paying any interest. [PoF: Ramseye-esque behaviors must be tough…

The Worst Financial Gifts to Give to Your Children

…some payments, and then give you the car. Along with the responsibility to make the payments! Uhhh . . . thanks, Mom. I guess it could be worse. They could…

Marriott Bonvoy Amex Business Credit Card Review 2024

…include account management, access to QuickBooks, year-end summaries, and the ability to pay bills with Vendor Pay by Bill.com. For me, the most handy feature is the Employee Marriott Bonvoy…

FIRE Crossroads 024: Coasting to fatFIRE

…did refinance our home mortgage this past year. I had the mindset that we would accelerate our mortgage payments and pay it off in the next 5-7 years (we had…

Physician Salaries: Why Transparency Is Important (And What We’re Doing About It)

…of employee pay and employer reviews. Glassdoor championed the age of pay transparency in Tech. Surely, medicine could use something like this? What if we simply choose to share what…

Capital One Venture X Business Credit Card Review 2023

…to select your monthly due date. Scheduled automatic payments. The option to add dedicated account managers. The ability to schedule vendor payments online at a 2.9% fee when a merchant…

Starbucks: Buy the Real Estate, Not [Just] the Coffee

…flow on that $540,000 down payment. At a 4.75% interest rate with a 25 year amortization, your monthly payment on your loan equates to $12,300 compared to the $14,625 you…

Our Frugal Weirdo Tendencies. Yes, I Cut My Wife’s Hair.

…months or a couple of years are good candidates for used buys. I once bought a used hot tub. Twice, actually. When you pay less than $1,000, you don’t mind…

Retired at 34. How One Physician Quit Her Job to Live Her Dream.

…summer. I pay for trash pick up now but hope to eventually be zero waste. My focus is on reducing recurring payments to free up more of the budget for…

FIRE Crossroads 027: Perhaps FI, Perhaps Not, But Working Toward It

…while we are still working toward FI and fully employed, there is no real reason to pay off the mortgage. Our question: should we just pay off the mortgage even…

The FIRE-Minded Approach to Life Insurance

…calculator that uses similar criteria, using your salary as the benchamark makes sense only for those living paycheck to paycheck or saving a meager amount of it. What you actually…