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Happy Monday WA readers! Last week we had a nice mix of articles. We talked about Burger King making a comeback to the stock market, I provided a video review of the Square credit card processing service, and we also finally made a profit from installing a dimmer switch! Also, and I hope you didn’t…
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Recently, we unveiled our new Mortgage Calculator. Our mortgage calculator has a couple of great benefits: It charts the payments so you can see the principal and interest. It provides the monthly payment amount. It has a mortgage amortization schedule. You can include additional principal payments. It doesn’t require multiple screen loads like most calculators,…
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We’ve finally finished our new Mortgage Calculator, and we’re very proud of it! The mortgage calculator was a lot of work, but we’re happy the day is here to unveil it. We did our best to make the mortgage calculator functional, intuitive, and aesthetically pleasing. We hope this is helpful for you, and if you have any…
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Sometimes success seems like it is miles away. It doesn’t matter what you are trying to do: Starting a business Completing School Getting out of debt or even performing simple tasks Maybe it’s something you have done a million times before with any trouble, or maybe your task is something brand new, scary, and everything…
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With the Olympics bringing an influx of visitors to the city in July, many Londoners will make extra money by renting out a spare room over the summer. For the rest of us, it’s a reminder that there are plenty of opportunities to let a spare room during sporting and cultural events, to help make…
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Do I Need A New Car When a person’s car dies, or people crack enough jokes, a person will inevitably ask themselves at some point: Do I Need A New Car? This question comes with a lot of stigma attached to it. Friends and family will generally tell you yes, and use phrases like “you…
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How Do I Start An Emergency Fund? There are a couple of things that we like to suggest. First, start a money market account at a bank. These earn a decent amount of interest and they allow you to write up to 6 checks against it each month. If you can’t start a money market…
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What’s Your Emergency Fund? Very few people have a plan for when something bad happens. In fact, some peoples’ plan seems to be to be to hope with all of their hearts that something bad doesn’t happen! It seems to work really well until something does happen, and that’s when things fall apart. Let us…
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An Angry Boss, A Tough Job, and Lunch Everyone has had a job they have hated, and not necessarily because the job itself was terrible, but because of the person in charge. Some on our team have vivid memories of such a job, especially our team member Timothy. We will let Timothy take over from here: Many…
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Payday loans are dangerous little devices. They offer an extremely temporary feeling of stability, until the next bill roles in, or you need to pay the loan back. They hide their interest rates by charging a “flat fee.” After all, would you rather take a one month, $200.00 loan that charges a $20.00 fee, or take that…
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What is wealth to you? To many people wealth is a big number at the end of many years of saving and investing, and to others it is a yearly or monthly income. To us, wealth is a dollar figure that will allow a person to continue their quality of life to the end of…
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“I Hate My Job!“ If that sounds like you then why aren’t you profiting from your employer? Sure, you are probably drawing a paycheck, but are you going to forever get passive income from them? If your answer to that is no, then change it to yes! Turn Your Job Into a Passive Income Generator…
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On Friday, we discussed diversifying income by creating multiple streams of income. This will hedge against the impact of one stream shrinking, or being eliminated altogether. We will now discuss an example to help illustrate this idea. How Do You Diversify Your Income Streams? Let’s say that you decide to write articles online. There are…
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You diversify your investments just in case, you purchase health insurance, car insurance, home owners insurance, and countless other preventative products, so why do you depend on one company for your income? Often overlooked, people put all of their “income eggs” into one basket. Growing retirement income is an excellent and highly suggested path to…
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The Lottery Winners We’ve heard that you can learn something from anyone whether it be what to do, or what not to do. On Sunday April 18, 2010 we saw an episode of Moving up on TLC. This particular episode is called “The Lottery Winners” and it details how a couple won a $600,000.00 lottery.…
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