David Rubenstein started his career as a big firm lawyer, but decided that life wasn’t for him. He now works for himself and also runs a credit and credit card forum thanks to a longtime love for personal finance. Learn how he escaped the 9-5 life and got started with his credit forums side hustle in …
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My last student loan, which recently came due, just moved banks. I am done making payments to Citibank. Now, luckily, my loans have all been sold to the same company. Interestingly, that company is the US government.
While working as a bank manager, I learned about all sorts of fancy financial tools, and how you can combine some of them to build something even better. Two such tools are a home equity line of credit, or a HELOC, and a debit card.
Standard personal finance advice is to use credit cards responsibly and pay off your balances in full every month. Some go so far as to say that we should stay away from credit cards altogether. But like most things in life, nothing is black and white. There are a lot of grey areas that blur …
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One day a few months ago, I bought a program that I use for my WordPress site maintenance service. The tool cost me about $99, and I was excited to turn it on and try it out for the first time. Everything worked great, but I was distraught just a couple of weeks later to …
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About a month ago, I bought a new house! This is the second home I’ve owned, but the new house is my first time owning a single-family home not connected to any other units. I feel so grown up! I could not have bought such a great home without a mortgage, similar to many other young …
