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Can Installing Solar Panels Increase Your Home Value?

Allen Francis / February 18th, 2021 / No Comments

The best reason to aspire to own a home is the knowledge that your landlord generates revenue in their sleep. When you rent an apartment or property, you pay rent to a landlord. It is the landlord or the property owner hired by the landlord, who collects your hard-earned money to pay their own bills. Meanwhile, while you are paying for your landlord bills or the bills of the original property owners...

Posted in: Home, Personal Finance, Real Estate, saving money, Saving Money Tagged with: solar energy, solar panels

Where to Keep Your Money While Saving for a House

Allen Francis / December 17th, 2020 / No Comments

The typical cost of a new house is over $330,000. That is a lot of money to save for in a pandemic wrecked economy. So where should you keep your money while saving for a house? You should keep in mind that saving for a house is a time-exhaustive process. It takes time to save enough money for a down payment, closing costs, and pay for all of the ancillary costs that come after buying a house, like...

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Do You Tip House Painters?

Allen Francis / August 27th, 2020 / 1 Comment

When I was a young college student, I took a date to a fancy Asian cuisine restaurant near our college. The food was good, but as we ate dessert, I noticed there was a penny in my ice cream. I am getting queasy culinary flashbacks now from the memory. I balked at paying a tip and the hostess argued with me. Young and naïve, I paid a dollar. I wish I could go back in time and change that. Does every...

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Using a Retirement Fund Loan to Buy a New Home – I Wish I Did That

Allen Francis / June 18th, 2020 / No Comments

“Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” That is an old and witty saying – something that used to be called an “epigram.” This saying is connected to the phrase, “Murphy’s Law.” No matter what you do or how you get ahead, the one thing that may hold you back or negate your progress will appear at the most inopportune moment. I spent almost a decade renting apartments when I...

Posted in: Career and Work, Home, Money, Personal Finance, Real Estate Tagged with: 401k, IRA, withdrawing retirement funds