Dear Carrie: I’m 26 and in the Navy. I enlisted last year and am currently stationed in South Korea. With some extra cash I’m expecting from my next deployment, I should finally have all my credit card debt paid ...

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Dear Carrie: I just lost my job and received my final paycheck with a small amount of severance money. I’ll probably need the money over the next few months, especially if my job search takes a long time, but would ...

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There are thousands of brilliant ideas for making money out there, but can you execute all of them? Often the simple, understandable plan, well executed, works the best. For our own real estate investment plan, my business partner and I ...

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I’ve been involved in a lot of negotiations, and read a lot of books on the subject.  There is a basic principal of negotiation that is fundamental- that is- below the level of tactics and techniques.  In fact, it doesn’t ...

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  Real estate has historically appreciated at about an average of 4 percent per year, and that is just on the capital invested. Real estate (residential and commercial), just like other investments, goes through cycles. These cycles go from a ...

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  As an Investor, you may be forgiven for thinking that I enjoy watching the multitude of popular television programs about people “flipping” houses”. The truth is exactly the opposite. I cringe when I see the final profit analysis on ...

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INVESTORS’ CORNER: A game plan for success investing in real estate I want to share with you some ideas on using real estate to become debt free and build your cash reserves. It has worked for me and I have ...

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Frequently clients want to know how to Avoid Probate.  Avoiding probate can save large sums of money, reduce administrative time (headache), and maintain privacy. Probate is the legal process through which the estate of the deceased is administered.  Probate can ...

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  Is your local real estate market hot? Are good real estate deals getting harder to find? If so, you’re not alone. But this isn’t a new problem. The times when it’s easy to find real estate deals are the ...

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Named in honor of Charlotte of Mecklenburg – the wife of King George II – Charlotte is the largest city in North Carolina. This modern city is fondly known as Uptown and features the state’s major museums, shopping and dining ...

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