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 to a new website called Currency and my first piece gives you five tips to help you court bankers and find the “perfect” home loan.  With tips on getting the best mortgage rates, saving on closing costs, and not buying more home than you can afford, you could potentially save thousands of dollars so check out my mortgage dating guide.

Web Money Tips

Here are a few other articles from around the web that caught my eye this week:

• Cameron Huddleston gives us a fall financial to-do list over at Kiplinger’s.
• Kimberly Palmer suggests ways to save on fall travel at Alpha Consumer.
• Jennifer Saranow Schultz from the NYT Bucks blog thinks now might be the time so sell your old stuff online.
• Katherine Hobson talks a little about health care providers qualifying for stimulus funds for implementing electronic medical records over at the Wall Street Journal.

Ben Edwards, the founder of Money Smart Life, saved up enough to buy a Nintendo back when he was 12 years old. When he used the money to buy shares of Wal-Mart stock instead, he knew he wasn't like the other kids... His addiction to personal finance has paid off for his family and now he's helping you to afford the life that you want. Check him out on the web at Google Plus, Twitter and Facebook.

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