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Debt/Mortgage

Rent or Buy, revisited

Posted on July 12, 2021 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

I’ve owned my home for about two (2) years now. Prior to that, I rented for a little over 14 years straight. Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of memes ...

Debt/Mortgage

Still more debt advocacy

Posted on October 15, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Once again I encounter another article describing why a person should not seek to pay off their mortgage quickly. This time it’s Deborah Kearns of NerdWal...

Accounting/Debt/Mortgage

$1.5 million bullshit artist

Posted on August 23, 2016 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

On this blog and elsewhere, I’ve been an advocate for shedding debt. Including paying down your mortgage early. Investments are a gamble. If the percentag...

Debt/Mortgage

More debt advocacy

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Apparently lost on financial planners and financial commentators is the fact that paying off debt is the only guaranteed way to increase your overall wealth. Ev...

Debt/Mortgage

Advocating staying in debt

Posted on June 12, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 1 Comment

Why do financial advisers seem to constantly advise people to stay in debt? Recently Adam Hatter wrote a story on Yahoo! Finance detailing how he and his wife p...

Debt/Mortgage

Hardly stern advice

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

Reuters blogger Linda Stern recently wrote an article regarding financial decisions that can wait. Many of the items listed in the article are things beyond any...

Debt/Mortgage

Rent or Buy?

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard / 0 Comment

There’ve been plenty of blogs written about whether it is better to rent your residence or buy it. In the course of all of these blogs, there’ve als...

Debt/Mortgage/Politics

Canceled debts and the IRS

Posted on February 4, 2010 by Kenneth Ballard

Anyone who has racked up a lot of debt knows that if they go into default, they can be at the mercy, or lack thereof, of their creditors. For example, as a tool...

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