Down Payment Money Can Make a Huge Difference In order to buy a home, you need to have a balance of good credit, manageable debt, stable income, and sufficient savings. Maintaining a balance between these four categories is challenging enough on its own, never mind coming up with enough cash as a down payment to close …
On this Queer Money™, we interview teenpreneur Eva Baker of TeensGotCents.com. Schools aren’t adequately teaching today’s students about money. Enter Eva Baker. Eva only recently lost her teenager-card, but is teaching teenagers and others too young to enter a bar about money. What started as a home-school project assigned by her mother, Eva has turned …
Going straight with a financial plan In the fourth of our four-part series on the Four Principles of a Debt Free Life, we tackle the scary but important discussion about the need to have a financial plan. For more information on how we came to this conclusion and our solutions, clicking here to get the …
LGBT Job Seekers Should Be Proud and Cautious We think it’s important to build a financially strong LGBTQ community. That’s because the stronger we are financially, the more capable we are of funding the causes and initiatives most important to us. Yes, we’ve made lots of progress over the years, but we’ve been reminded recently …
If you’re making a financial resolution for the new year to tackle debt through consolidation, your occupation could affect the terms of a personal loan. Frequent late payments made by people with your same job title could be a factor that determines interest rate, among other aspects. In other words, it’s possible some jobs hurt financially. Professions …