Your Mortgage Dating Guide

Other than deciding to get married, buying a house is probably the biggest financial decision you’ll make in your life.  Many of us sink an enormous amount of time and effort into finding the perfect spouse, and rightly so.  But how many people put enough thought into finding the right home mortgage? I recently started contributing […]

Blue Cash Late Payment Relief

One of the rules of the Blue Cash card is that you won’t earn cash back on spending if you have a late payment.  Until now I had thought you lost your cashback for the whole year if your payment was late just once.  Seemed kind of drastic to me but I figured that’s how […]

Money for College Students

Going away to college can be a lot of fun but it can also be kind of stressful thanks to all the responsibilities that you suddenly have to bear.  One of big stresses when you’re settling into college life is figuring out how to pay for it all.  Not just the big college tuition bill […]

American Express TrueEarnings & Rewards Cards

The TrueEarnings card is one of the latest American Express rewards cards covered recently on the credit card section of this site.  Several months ago I had promised a monthly review of the latest additions to that section but then we decided to try and sell our house and all my plans went out the window. […]

3 Simple Ways to Invest $500 Online

This is a guest post by Ramsay at moneyedup.com.  You can enter to win $500 by subscribing to their blog.  Visit moneyedup.com to enter the giveaway. In the past, investing money was limited to a few vehicles, most of which were accessible by working with a local company. Today, however, the Internet opens numerous investment […]

Waterproofing Your Basement Against Costly Damage

Basic basement waterproofing can be done for a relatively low price; much cheaper than the eventual cost of long term water damage that can result in your foundation and finished basement walls and carpet. Basement water damage can take several costly forms and often the wet basement isn’t caused by water from a roaring flood but rather […]

Keeping Our Basement Dry

Water can do some nasty damage to your house and I’m not just talking about rivers and creeks overflowing their banks and invading your home.  During our process of buying a new house and selling our old house we saw the results of what water can do to a home if not properly managed. I’ve […]

Health Savings Account vs Flexible Spending Account

We recently covered the health savings account and have written about flexible spending accounts and in the past and thought it was time to take a look at health savings accounts vs flexible spending accounts. Both can be useful tools for medical expense income tax deductions but one thing many people are unhappy with are flexible spending account […]

Health Savings Account Guide

A health savings account can be a good option for people searching for health plans who don’t want to spend a lot of money on premiums for medical insurance. Of course, we know there’s no such thing as cheap health insurance. If your premiums are low for individual health insurance that usually means you have […]

Home Buyers Guide

Whether you’re a first time home buyer or you’ve already gone through the hurdles of a home sale, home loans, and home buying there’s probably something you’ll come across in your next home buying exprience that you hadn’t expected.  We’ve been through the house buying process twice now so I decided to put together a list of […]

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