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Entries for April, 2008

Get Rich Not So Quick in Real Estate

As you may have noticed, we are getting ready to sell our house.  After living in our first house for about 7 years, we’ve been our last two for 2 and 3 years respectively.  The interesting thing is that each time we have made a lot of money.  The past two times we’ve used this [...]

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Selling Your Own Home - Time Warp

Ok, so nothing at all on the house for two weeks. It was very weird because we were having a few showings every weekend day and one or two the other days with an off day every now and then. Then, all of the sudden, nothing! I checked everything out to make [...]

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Selling Your Own Home - Day 16, 17, 18, 19

No showings. I’m starting to get a little bit worried. Truthfully we didn’t expect to sell before May, but I would still like to get a showing every day or two…

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Budget Issues? It Might Be Your Car

Many people wonder why their budget seems so tight. Too often they look in the wrong places. Usually the problem is car payments.

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Sell Your Own Home - Day 14

You have to be kidding! My cell phone, which is the number we have put on all of our real estate marketing, was off yesterday all afternoon. I checked it this morning just to be sure and we have 2 showing requests on there from Friday. So, we scrambled to clean up [...]

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Sell Your Own Home - Day 13

So, it’s Friday and no calls for showings yet this weekend.  This is bad news as far as I can see.  Apparently after an initial burst of interest, it has dried up.  It is still early April and we planned to have our house on the market for a while, but I’d still like to [...]

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Credit Counseling Scams

Not too long ago, I wrote about monitoring your credit report on the non-blog Finance Gourmet site.  In it I included a warning about the various services offering to “fix” your credit and lower you monthly payment.  Now a much bigger site has an “insider” confession from just such an outfit.  A little independent confirmation [...]

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