Home Sales for Past Four Years Revised Down by 14%

by Justin Weinger on December 21, 2011

ShareTweet I’ve always taken the data reported by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) with a grain of salt, especially during the downturn in housing. They’ve always seemed to have a Pollyanna view on things, routinely telling us that the worst was behind us and better days were ahead, only to see sales and prices [...]

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Aspire to be a Minimalist

by Justin Weinger on November 17, 2011

ShareTweet A while back, I wrote about how my wife and I spent the better part of a weekend doing a deep clean of our home. We went through every room in the house and ended up donating or trashing old clothes, dishes, cooking utensils, DVDs, useless papers, you name it. And, as I stated [...]

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Family Money: Easy Ways to Cut Your Family’s Expenses

by Justin Weinger on November 3, 2011

ShareTweet Well, apparently the author bug has really bitten me, because I’ve already released another book for the Amazon Kindle! The book, “Family Money: Easy Ways to Cut Your Family’s Expenses,” is a light-hearted how-to book on ways to drastically slash your monthly expenses without correspondingly affecting your lifestyle. Through years of writing on Saving [...]

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Don’t Make These 10 First Time Homebuyer Mistakes

by Justin Weinger on August 29, 2011

ShareTweet Thanks to record low mortgage rates and home prices that have fallen roughly one-third on a national level from the real estate bubble’s peak, buying a home is now more affordable than it has been in decades. (NOTE: This takes into consideration the price of the house/mortgage only, not other costs such as HOA [...]

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