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Rent a house with bad credit

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 28 Aug 2017 11:00:45 +0000

If you need to know how to rent a house with bad credit, it’s possible. You have an uphill climb, but renting a home with bad credit isn’t a completely hopeless cause. Here are some tips from a landlord. How

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Don’t buy a house if you can’t afford it

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 11:00:54 +0000

I see the advice all the time not to buy a house if you can’t afford it, but rarely do I see a good explanation of what that means. It’s really easy. Let me explain it, as someone who paid

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The Debt Tsunami is a gimmick, but it probably doesn’t matter

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 19:13:11 +0000

I saw some people passionately advocating both for and against a new method of paying off debt: The “Debt Tsumani,” which focuses on paying off debt in the order of its emotional impact on you. As someone who paid off

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Plain, pure and simple advice from the guy with a credit score of 848

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:28:02 +0000

One day a Cleveland-area man walked into a Bass Pro Shop, and they offered him a credit card with a promotion that would pay the sales tax. The savings amounted to $50, so he accepted. A few weeks later, he

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Reducing allergies and saving money doing it

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:22:39 +0000

I saw a slideshow on CNN this week about ways to reduce allergies at home. One of the options they suggested was using a filter with an MERV rating between 8 and 12. This works, and doesn’t have to be

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Feeling poor on $100,000 a year

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:16:21 +0000

Yahoo! Finance! has! a! first-person! story! about! struggling! on! six! figures! Silliness aside, you might be surprised to hear I–an infamous stingy Scottish miser–am at least a little sympathetic. Here’s the thing: A hundred grand isn’t always created equal. The

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Using child safety outlets to save energy

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 02:32:27 +0000

I got a new book recently about saving energy. I’ve read several of those, but this one had two tips I’ve never seen anywhere else: caulking baseboards and putting child safety covers on electrical outlets. It didn’t explain caulking the

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Surviving a recession

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 02:35:21 +0000

I saw a link to a short story on Get Rich Slowly called What to do during a recession.

I think I can do a little better. So I'm gonna try.

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How to find motivation to balance your budget

Dave Farquhar — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 12:26:56 +0000

This week I read a story on Get Rich Slowly about a couple who refuses to budget. The conversation ended when the person who needed to budget bragged about getting five shrubs on sale for $10 each. She didn't need them, but the deal was too good to pass up.

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I helped my girlfriend move this weekend

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 03:15:33 +0000

It's been a long weekend and I'm exhausted, but I like the situation my girlfriend finds herself in now. She has an apartment in the Holly Hills neighborhood in south St. Louis.

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