Learn how amortization works to spread payments over time.
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Housing
Understanding the housing market can help you gauge what financial steps are best for your future. This selection of activities and articles on best house-buying (and renting) practices teaches useful tips and tricks for saving, borrowing, and paying just the right amount for your next home.
Explore your options for buying a home: first-time buyer benefits, best age to buy, building vs. buying, foreclosure auctions, buying with parents, and owner financing.
Use the Financial Wellness Assessment to discover your personal finance strengths and weaknesses.
Learn how to build your credit score from scratch or boost your decent score.
By requiring you to make monthly payments, an escrow account ensures that your property taxes and homeowners insurance are always made.
The quicker you payoff your mortgage, the less you'll pay in interest.
Compare the cost of living between cities. Calculate the salary you need to maintain your lifestyle in another city. [Housing, Groceries, Transportation, & more]
Learn about HELOCs (Home Equity Lines of Credit) and see if you could be approved. Access funds for major expenses or projects. Explore your options now!
Military service members receive special, life-changing benefits as a thank you for their services.
Every single time you use credit, the details are added to your credit report and used to influence your credit score.
Selling your home? Learn the costs, marketing tips, and pricing strategies to sell your home faster.
Make the first steps toward creating a college budget by learning specifics about fixed and variable expenses.
Whether it's a personal loan, credit card, or payment plan on a large purchase, you can see how long it may take to pay off the loan.
Finding the right place to rent requires understanding your budget and needs.
Protect your home and belongings with homeowner's insurance.
Prepare to enter the workforce, go to college, figure out rent and all those other post-high school responsibilities.
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