Rent or Buy, revisited
I’ve owned my home for about two (2) years now. Prior to that, I rented for a little over 14 years straight. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of memes ...
Category: Mortgage
Still more debt advocacy
Once again I encounter another article describing why a person should not seek to pay off their mortgage quickly. This time it’s Deborah Kearns of NerdWal...
$1.5 million bullshit artist
On this blog and elsewhere, I’ve been an advocate for shedding debt. Including paying down your mortgage early. Investments are a gamble. If the percentag...
More debt advocacy
Apparently lost on financial planners and financial commentators is the fact that paying off debt is the only guaranteed way to increase your overall wealth. Ev...
Advocating staying in debt
Why do financial advisers seem to constantly advise people to stay in debt? Recently Adam Hatter wrote a story on Yahoo! Finance detailing how he and his wife p...
Hardly stern advice
Reuters blogger Linda Stern recently wrote an article regarding financial decisions that can wait. Many of the items listed in the article are things beyond any...
Rent or Buy?
There’ve been plenty of blogs written about whether it is better to rent your residence or buy it. In the course of all of these blogs, there’ve als...
Canceled debts and the IRS
Anyone who has racked up a lot of debt knows that if they go into default, they can be at the mercy, or lack thereof, of their creditors. For example, as a tool...