Three months ago, my husband and I finally realized a long-term dream and purchased a home. We were thrilled. For the past two years, we've been looking for homes, either falling in love with a home we couldn’t afford or finding a slew of dumps and duds within our range. Well in May, it seemed like everything was finally falling into place. We found a house—a turnkey home … [Read more...]
Money Monday: The 4 BIG Expenses That’ll Keep You from Becoming Rich
Eliminating your morning Starbucks coffee and cutting coupons are perfectly legitimate ways to cut costs and rein in your finances. But you’ll never get rich playing so-called small ball. To reach financial success, you need big wins. You need to address the areas of your financial life that will save you not $5 here or $10 there, but tens of thousands of dollars. … [Read more...]
Money Monday: You Won’t Believe How This Prominent Business Magazine Portrays Minorities
A barefoot, bug-eyed, black man greedily clenches wads of cash --- It's not exactly the image you'd expect to grace the cover of one of the nation's most prominent business magazines, but that's exactly the type of grotesque caricature Bloomberg's Businessweek portrayed on its February 25th cover for a story about the rebounding US housing market. It portrays four minorities … [Read more...]