I remember a string of dinner parties not so long ago and the stand-around-over-the-punch-bowl hot topic was how much money people were saving by refinancing their homes (which actually it turned into boisterous round of ‘Anything you can do, I can do better—or Anything you have done, I have done better’).
Now, keep in mind, this […]
I have good friends that are moving out of their first home. They aren’t selling because they need more space or they are unhappy with the area or the house. They are moving because of work, and neither one of them are excited about it.
Of course one of the reasons they […]
If you are investigating what it would take for you to make a big purchase like a home, obviously there are several steps to making it a reality. One of the first should be to get a copy of your credit report. There are several companies that claim that they can offer you this service, […]
It’s tax season. At this time of year visions of W2 forms and big fat checks written to the IRS are dancing through most of our heads, and advertisers are counting on it. On Sunday, no less than four times during an NFL playoff that H&R Block ad ran about mistakes people make […]
When I think about shopping, I admit, I’m a total girl. I think dressing rooms and credit cards and linking arms with my friends as we skip through the mall. That’s why the word shopping never really fit for me when it came to mortgages. Shopping for a house, yes. For […]
Several years ago, my mother refinanced her home. When she told me about it I was young, newly married and living in a basement apartment, and totally naive about what refinancing meant. I heard that she reduced the amount of years left to pay on her mortgage and thought, “Nifty! She’ll be payment […]
When my husband and I were first married, we were looking at apartments that were closer to the college campus where we were attending school. We looked at several before we came to a basement apartment right across the street from the University. I instantly fell in love with the place. It […]
There are obviously several things to talk about when it comes to improving your credit. I decided (for several reasons, not the least of which is that I needed a refresher) to do some research and found mountains of information on the subject–especially when it comes to mortgages and credit scores. Because of the stacks of data from various sources, no matter how hard I try I can’t condense it into a decent blog entry, so this will probably be the first of a series on the topic.
My friend Nicole* has stacks of credit cards. She can’t even fit them all in the cute wallet (with matching purse) that she bought with one of those cards. The mall loves girls like Nicole. She looks great in anything she tries on, and buys a great deal of it on store […]
I’ve been thinking a lot about credit lately. Partly it’s because of my sister buying a house and discussing those things with me, but it’s also because there seems to be a rash of commercials about credit scores and mortgage rates lately on late night TV (and unfortunately, I watch a lot of that […]