Paying a mortgage is not quite the same as paying rent. When you have a mortgage payment you are responsible for a lot more than when you are a renter. When you pay rent, you simply pay to live there. The owner or manager of the property is responsible for Read more…
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) can be extremely useful financial and health care planning tools. Although you should understand that not everyone should take advantage of them. Like most (if not all) other financial tools, there is no one-size-fits-all approach. But in order to understand what an FSA is and if Read more…
Taxes. Gross. Taxes on retirement accounts? Also gross. No one wants to talk about taxes because apart from being a dry and boring topic, no one wants to think about how much money they are going to have to pay to Uncle Sam. But there is some good news. When Read more…
Retirement. It’s something that most of us don’t think we need to worry about until we get older. Retirement is also something that most of us don’t think we can worry about right now. After all, we have student loans, expensive healthcare costs, rising housing prices, kid’s college, aging parents, Read more…
Retirement. Roth IRA. It’s something that most of us don’t think we need to worry about until we get older. Retirement is also something that most of us don’t think we can worry about right now. After all, we have student loans, expensive healthcare costs, rising housing prices, kid’s college, Read more…