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Reasons To Look For A New Job
The 3 most important reasons I decided to search for a new job after 15 grueling years with the same company.
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Deciding to Become a Personal Finance Coach and Why!
Helping People Through Coaching! With all the major events happening lately, the average person needs help now more than ever. Help from a personal finance coach that is… So… I’ve decided to help!! What makes me qualified, you ask? Ironically, both my lack of education and my passion to learn Read more…
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Our Perfect Opportunity to Start in Real Estate Investing
Perfect opportunity! When we started our life together we rented a room from a friend who had extra space and could use the additional income. It was the “perfect timing opportunity.” One year later we started looking for a house of our own. When we realized it was a good Read more…
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Saving Money the DIY Way!
We did our own roof replacement. BEFORE The front of the house is under a magnificent, old oak tree that causes moss. The back of the house had some broken shingles but wasn’t a huge disaster. These pictures were taken one and a half years after we moved in. The Read more…
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Covid-19… And other reasons to have an emergency fund.
40% of Americans can’t come up with $400 if there was an emergency. Start Your Emergency FUND! Let’s look at a few things that we use our emergency fund for. Vacancies mean lost income! Fortunately, our only tenant is a teacher and was able to continue teaching online. But what Read more…
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Our Intro To FI
How We Stumbled Across the Financial Independence Community…Accidentally After Bob and I purchased our house, we started to think more seriously about money and saving. I got curious about listening to podcasts regarding finances, so I took iHeartRadio’s suggestion and found How To Money. Meet Matt and Joel! I immediately Read more…
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5 of My Biggest Money Mistakes
We have started this website to share with you what we’ve done, and what we’re doing to achieve independence, that will allow us to retire before we’re 60. But we are not experts, nor will we ever claim to be. Even the hosts of the numerous podcasts we listen to Read more…
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My First Blog Post!
We are excited to start this journey with you! As I stated in our “about” page, we are just trying to figure this out as we go along. I’m finding that starting this journey later in life is difficult and it was evident today with the start of this blog Read more…