Financial trouble is something that every person deals with. It’s easy, when you find yourself facing a mountain of debt and bills to panic. It’s easy to get caught up in hand wringing and worrying about how you’ll survive. Eventually, though, you have to take a deep breath and make a plan. Hopefully you’re not… Read more
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Increase your home value
Morning all! Today I have a guest post from Will Van Hartog, about how to increase your home value. Will is an investing enthusiast who loves sharing his wealth of knowledge. His blog, The Color of the Money, can be found here. Itѕ nо secret thаt selling уоur home hаѕ bесоmе much harder than it… Read more
Buy-to-let in the UK: a beginner’s guide to becoming a landlord
With mortgages continuing to be out of reach for many first time buyers, and the UK rental market continuing to grow, there’s never been a better time to become a landlord. Below we share with you some of the key things you need to consider before creating your own property empire. Location,… Read more
Financial goals update, January-February 2013
On January 1st, I set a number of financial goals, and will update every couple of months through the year. Here is the first review. two months have gone already! The main financial goal was to grow my net worth by 30%. With the purchase of a car, a boat, over $12K of works on the… Read more
Little house in Guatemala, week 8-9 and cost recap
This is the eighth part about the (slow) conversion of the land I bought in Guatemala and my new life here, you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 and Part 7 if you missed them. Never miss another post by subscribing to my RSS feed! … Read more
Little house in Guatemala, week 7
This week I was alone at home with a new room being built and the handyman working with me on a new vegetable garden. Men in Guatemala and especially in such small villages are macho and it is hard to get listened to as a woman. On the first day, the… Read more
Little house in Guatemala, week 6
This is the fifth part about the (slow) conversion of the land I bought in Guatemala and my new life here, you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Part 4 and Part 5 if you missed them. Please also check my guest post on Young Adult Money called Kill your debt faster: how… Read more
Little house in Guatemala, week 5
This is the fourth part about the (slow) conversion of the land I bought in Guatemala and my new life here, you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4 if you missed them. As I write this, it is still the weekend, the house is quiet… Read more
Little house in Guatemala, week 2
This week starts with the great news of getting electricity. The electrician had already been fixing the wiring from the meter to the house, and inside the house. Most wiring had been stolen, maybe by thieves, maybe because the previous owner stopped paying wages to his guardian some months ago and the guy may have… Read more
Real Estate: How I sold my rental property… again!
It has been a tense week last week, mainly because of the sale of my studio flat in the suburbs of Paris. I had found a buyer back in June, and the legal contract took months (his lawyer’s fault) to write, so we eventually signed a sale at the beginning of August. You can think… Read more