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Electricity Cost: How It’s Calculated and Ways to Save
Electricity Cost: How It’s Calculated and Ways to Save
It is normal now to think of how much they will cost me monthly. Budgeting is just one aspect of being an adult and paying for your needs. If you don’t care whether or not your current electricity bill puts a dent in your budget, it can’t hurt to keep track of your energy use and double-check the bills you get.
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Refinancing
Refi Breakeven Point: How to Calculate Yours
A mortgage refinance takes money in the form of closing costs, so when does the saving start?
Refinancing
More Good Uses for a Cash-Out Refi (and One Bad Use)
The cash from a cash-out refinance can put you on stable footing to make smart moves with your money.
Buying a Home
How You Can Avoid Paying PMI
Putting 20% down is the surefire way to avoid PMI, but here are three other ways.
News & Views
Higher Rates, Lower Prices. The Housing Market Course Correction Is Here.
As sellers scramble, buyers suddenly find themselves in the catbird seat.
Solar Basics
Customization Makes Going Solar Easier Than Ever
Systems can be tailored to most any home, and you can mix and match options to your liking.
Solar Incentives
2022 Is the Final Year to Claim Your 26% Solar Tax Credit
Homeowners who don’t go solar this year are set to miss out big-time.
Home Improvement
Solar Success Story: A Home in the Woods
Follow the straightforward installation of an 18-panel rooftop solar energy system that paid for itself in five years.
Solar Basics
Solar Panels vs. Other Home Improvement Projects
Tackle big-ROI upgrades.
Solar News
Same-Day Permitting Launches Home Solar Into Warp Speed
Solar Access Act to reduce permit wait times to a matter of hours.
Household Finances
Stop Wasting Money Buying Rental Car Coverage Twice
Insurance by your credit card, even if there's a flat fee, is bound to be cheaper than what's offered by the rental car company.
Mortgage News
Refinance Rates Freefall After Government Eliminates Universally Hated Fee
Refi fee costing homeowners thousands at closing is no more.
Home Buying
Advantages of Buying in an Older Neighborhood
A more walkable life in a place with character and trees can be yours when you buy an older home.
Household Finances
When to Review Your Homeowners Insurance Policy
5 reasons it might be time to review your coverage.
Home Improvement
How One Man Started a Real Estate Empire Without a Dollar to His Name
And you can too...
Home Improvement
Sweat Equity? No Sweat!
Leverage your home improvement skills into big bucks.
Household Finances
I Can Rent Out THAT?! Make Bonus Money From Space and Things You're Not Using
Thanks to our always-connected economy, something of value that you aren't using at the moment could bring you fast cash.
Mortgage Refinance
A Cash-Out Refi Can Make People Love Their Home Again
Features and upgrades so enticing in a new home can be added to an existing home and paid for with equity.
Home Selling
What's the Deal With Those "We Buy Ugly Houses" Signs?
Predatory flippers have expanded their hunting grounds, but ugliness is in the eye of the beholder.
Mortgage News
Mortgage Rates Set to Skyrocket in 2022?
What does the future hold for refi rates?
