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“financial plan”

How To Determine How Much House You Can Afford To Purchase

Long before you go house hunting, you need to determine how much house you can afford based your financial goals and your plans to achieve them.  You must determine this for yourself.  If you don’t, one of two things will happen:  (1) You will fall in love with a house and then try to figure [...]

The Five Stages Of Our Financial Life

In over 30 years of marriage, Rosa and I have experienced 5 distinct stages in our financial life together.  Each stage represents a milestone in our journey to  financial independence. Stage 1:  Recovery Rosa and I came together and married after each of us had lived through a failed first marriage.  Those marriages had left [...]