Integrating budgeting and accounting with GnuCash
There are a lot of approaches to budgeting and personal financial management, it seems. Some are rather complicated, while others make you wonder whether their ...
Category: Debt
Still more debt advocacy
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...
Almost getting it right
I’ve said numerous times that I really don’t like much of what is published about debt collections. Because most articles I’ve seen about the ...
$1.5 million bullshit artist
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...
13 things said by someone who likely never had student loan debt
Once again I need to focus my eyes on Credit.com, and specifically at Christine DiGangi and her article “13 Thing People with No Student Loan Debt Will Ne...
Leveraging and personal finance
Dave Ramsey definitely caters to a particular audience. That is an audience that has little control over their spending and little, if any, financial intelligen...
Debt settlements – Reply to Star Fresh Northwest
Recently I received an e-mail from Ron Burg of Star Fresh Northwest, which is a subsidiary of Lauber Dancey, PLLC, in Washington State: Hi there, My name is Ron...
Correcting the Motley Fool regarding debt collectors
Time and again I read articles that make me wonder either 1. whether the editors were just not paying attention and 2. the authors actually have experience with...
Reply to Lee Siegel regarding student loan default
When one person defaults on their debt, it isn’t the end of the financial world. But as we saw in 2008, when a lot of people default on their debt, it can...
Treated like a deadbeat
My wife and I had decided that we were going to be moving out at the end of our lease and finding a new place to live. Now any apartment complex is likely to pu...
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