Help a Reader: Mortgage Payment Options + MORE

Today’s podcast features Sean Hopwood, founder and owner of Day Translations, a full-service translation and interpreting business. Sean has a passion for languages and speaks many himself. Sean wasn’t satisfied with his career in legal translation. He wanted more, and decided to start Day Translations while he was holding down another full-time job…

Naked With Cash is the year-long series on Consumerism Commentary where seven readers’ households share their financial progress on a monthly basis. I’ve partnered with financial planners who will offer some guidance along the way. Read this introduction to learn more about the series. LastDollar is thirty-three years old, an entrepreneur and single mom with two children with learning differences in private school…

With many financial institutions experiencing a decrease in profits, banks are vying for your business. This is good news for you, because instead of just offering standard perks like no fees, free checking, or a free pen when you sign up for an account, some banks are raising the stakes with cold hard cash, giveaways, and […

Each week, I highlight ten things each week that inspired me to greater financial, personal, and professional success. Hopefully, they will inspire you as well.
1. Mark Twain on reading
“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” – Mark Twain
If you choose not to use the skill of reading, why bother having built that skill in the first place?
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Here’s an email I recently received from a reader:

My wife and I are buying our first home and our mortgage payment is going to end up being right around $850 a month give or take a few dollars. This is under our budget of $1000 per month that we were are willing to spend. We will only be putting 10% down so we will have some mortgage insurance as a part of that payment…

The following post addresses a long-time reader’s question of whether she should go to business school to find herself a wealthy husband. Just recently the search term “go to MBA to find wealthy husband” also appeared on my Google Analytics dashboard as well. Women seem to hate me for writing articles on relationships, yet they still continue to inquire anyway…

About 1 percent of the world’s households are millionaires.The Boston Consulting Group counted 13.8 million millionaire households in 2012, up from 12.6 million the previous year.The largest group of the current millionaires are American: nearly 5.9 million. (We also have the most billionaires.) Japan has close to 1…