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Remodeling Your Insurance After Remodeling Your Home

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Remodeling Your Insurance After Remodeling Your Home   The benefits of renovating your home make the expense an intelligent investment, but protecting that investment is paramount.  That’s why you should consider remodeling your homeowners insurance as well.   Renovations often result in homeowners insurance coverage shortfalls in two areas: dwelling protection—which involves structural improvements to […]

Investing vs Paying Off Debt

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Investing vs Paying Off Debt   If you carry a balance on one or more credit cards, you’re not alone.  According to the Federal Reserve, nearly half of American families do.    And nearly half of American families also have some sort of bank savings accounts.  If you have savings, should you use that money […]

Time to Think About Tax Help

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Time to Think About Tax Help   We’re smack in the middle of tax season again.  Many people fill out the short form, mail it in, and are done with it.  Good for you.  Lots of us have more complicated financial lives.  In many cases, those complications will be handled by a hired tax professional.  […]

Most Middle Class Workers Still Can’t Afford a Home

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Most Middle Class Workers Still Can’t Afford a Home   Despite the housing slump, most middle income workers still don’t earn enough to buy a median-priced home in their hometowns, according to the Center for Housing Policy.   The center, an arm of the affordable housing advocacy group the National Housing Conference (NHC), compared housing […]

C.A.R.E. About Bankruptcy

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C.A.R.E. About Bankruptcy   There’s been a lot of talk…and some action…lately when it comes to helping people over their heads in debt.  But maybe if these lessons were learned earlier, there would be less need for intervention today.  Money Talks editor Stacy Johnson explains in this video (runs 1:37)     If you have […]

Foreclosures Up 75% in 2007

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Foreclosures Up 75% in 2007   The number of foreclosures soared in 2007, with 405,000 households losing their home, according to a report released recently.  That’s up 51 percent from the 268,532 homes that were repossessed in 2006.   Total foreclosure filings soared 97% in December alone compared with December of 2006, according to RealtyTrac, […]

The Mind of the Market

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The Mind of the Market   Inman TV produced this interview with Michael Shermer, founder and publisher of Skeptic Magazine.  He just penned "The Mind of the Market," which explores market psychology and its role in the current real estate downturn.  Video runs 5:53.  (Click the video twice to start)   We’d love to hear […]

Lending or Borrowing from Family?

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Lending or Borrowing from Family?   Trying to buy a home but don’t know where to go for the down payment?   There are few people who haven’t considered a loan from a family member.  But before you tread this potentially perilous path, consider getting some outside help.   Our Money Talks editor Stacy Johnson […]