No matter what your financial situation is — whether you’re getting ready to purchase a home or you’re working on getting out of debt — you should have a good idea of what’s on your credit report. Because your credit report is the key factor for lenders trying to decide just how much credit they’ll [...]

Erin’s recent article Creating Your (Dreaded) Budget) was featured in this week’s Carnival of Debt Reduction. Check it out!
Our article Recipe for Success was in this weeks Carnival of Inspiration and Motivation.
And our article Save Money with Coupons made this week’s Festival of Frugality!

Before you get ready to head out for your weekend shopping trips, you might want to consider doing some research on the products you want to buy. There are plenty of ways to save money on the things you buy every week; you just need to know how to find them! Below is a list [...]

Zillow.com’s big selling point for house hunters is its real estate search function. Type in an address or a zip code and you can get information on houses — sale prices, number of bathrooms, and a slew of other tidbits. You can also get a good overall idea of how much homes are going for [...]

Many first-time home buyers go shopping for a home thinking that they’ll find the perfect house and live in it happily ever after. It just doesn’t work that way. Even if a member of your family doesn’t get a job halfway across the country, it’s likely that you may want to change school districts, find [...]

If there was ever a time to get serious about paying down your debt, that time would be now. With the economy in a tailspin, more and more people are finding it difficult (if not almost impossible) to pay their loan and credit card payments on time. This is making the banks and credit companies nervous and it is resulting in the tightening of their proverbial fists. They aren’t calling it a “credit crunch” for nothing.