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5 reasons to refinance your mortgage

Published Thursday, March 21, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Holly Johnson. A few weeks ago, I wrote about how I refinanced my mortgage for the second time in a year. The second refinance wasn’t actually part of my master plan, but I ended up having to refinance in order to remove my private mortgage insurance. […]

Oops, I may have broken my nest egg

Published Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool. Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool’s Rule Your Retirement service. Financial success can be due to making good decisions or avoiding big mistakes. In many cases, the biggest mistakes happen after good decisions, because the stakes have become higher. […]

Insurance: An easier way to comparison shop

Published Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer April Dykman. I had procrastinated until I could procrastinate no longer. I was in the middle of buying a house, and one of the many, many things on my ever-growing to-do list was to find a home insurance policy. My auto insurance policy also was up for renewal, and so I hoped to get a decent discount by buying both policies from one company. […]

Investing in your investing education: A resource list

Published Monday, March 18, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Lisa Aberle. Investing isn’t new to me. I opened my first CD in high school back in the good old days of 5 percent interest, and I started contributing to my 401(k) as soon as I was eligible (at age 21). I did everything right according to the articles I read. […]

Negotiating for perks when raises are off the table

Published Sunday, March 17, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This guest post is from David Lye. David is an expert on novated leasing, which is a “company car” type perk that many Australian companies offer their employees. In today’s uncertain economy, many employers are reluctant to offer raises to their employees. You may be lucky enough to keep your job, but chances are that you may not get a raise, or if you do, it could be a very small raise. […]

Ask the Readers: Would you give a child a credit card?

Published Friday, March 15, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

I’m personally a proponent of making teenagers authorized users on credit cards. My thinking is that it gives the parent the opportunity to teach their kids about managing credit while they’re at home and how to read a credit card statement (explain what the different interest rates mean, how fees are applied, etc.) while starting to build a credit file for their children. […]

My student loan story: How I paid it off in a year

Published Thursday, March 14, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is from staff writer Kristin Wong. Today I pulled out a file in my cabinet that’s been gathering dust since 2007: STUDENT LOAN. In 2007, I paid that sucker off, and I haven’t looked back since. Well, except to check my credit report. I wanted to make sure the nightmare was really over, after all. It wasn’t too much of a nightmare, really. With interest, I owed a little over $12,000. […]

Extreme weather and recreational costs

Published Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

This post is by staff writer Honey Smith. Although I live in Arizona (where it’s sunny and 65 right now), this has been a nasty winter for much of the country. The storm known as Nemo led to power outages, flight cancellations, and at least nine deaths. […]

Morningstar’s day for individual investors

Published Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 15:00 by Get Rich Slowly

Hey, GRS readers, you have been invited to the Morningstar Individual Investor Conference. This is an all-day webcast (although I’m sure you can jump in and out of the webcast depending on which sessions most interest you), and it features an all-star lineup of personal finance experts. The theme is retirement savings and setting goals. […]

Building a life we value

Published Tuesday, March 12, 2013 - 07:00 by Get Rich Slowly

The reason why I think “earn more” is better than “spend less” is not simply because more money gives us more options to amass a positive net worth, or because I don’t like to spent my time transporting my garbage to somebody else’s trash dump. I think this way mainly because I cherish human work and creativity, and I see wealth as the accumulated expression of this work. […]