I don’t know about you, but I feel that there is always going to be a time when what you believe about money is going to be tested in real life. You see, it’s always easy to say what your beliefs and values are on money, but it is another thing entirely to actually live them out. My wife and I went …
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Apparently I Don’t Borrow Enough
In our recent move to Iowa and the subsequent search for a new house, we came to the sad realization that we would need to get a mortgage again in order to get the house we wanted. We were ok with that because it was a pretty small mortgage and we'll be able to pay it off relatively quickly. No 30+ …
097 Financial Excellence: eCredable Should Replace the FICO Score
Episode 97: eCredable is the long awaited alternative to the FICO score, Feb 14, 2012. Today I interviewed Steve Ely, CEO of eCredable. eCredable is a credit reporting agency but they do things a little different than the big three (Experian, Trans-Union, and Equifax). eCredable looks at more than …