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How to Finance a Pleasure Vehicle
The freedom of taking to the open road on a motorcycle. The thrill of traversing the countryside on an ATV or snowmobile. The satisfaction of knowing everything you need for your road trip is right alongside you in your RV. These are all priceless feelings – but you...
How to Keep Your Money Safe While Traveling Abroad
Every Minnesotan loves two things: Minnesota in the summertime, and leaving Minnesota during the winter. Once the cheerful holiday season passes and the long, interminable gloom of January and February sprawls ahead, many of us vacation to places where rum punches are...
How to Save Money for Holiday Shopping
The most wonderful time of the year doesn’t start at the end of December. It begins a few months earlier when you cut back on spending in an attempt to get your loved ones every gift you can buy. It’s a financial challenge for many people, but somehow we all still buy...
What You Should Know About Finance as a Young Adult
Everyone learns the same thing about money at a very early age: It is what you give to the clerk behind the store counter so they won't yell at you for taking candy out of the store. Unfortunately, this is not the only lesson in money you need to get ahead in life....
3 Tips for Retiring Early
We all want to get ahead of the curve in life. And when it comes to retiring, we want to get ahead of the curve of life. While it’s not always easy, there are some things each of us can do to get closer to an early retirement. Everyone’s circumstances differ, but the...
The Economic Benefits of Buying Local
Who would you rather pay your money to: a multinational megacorporation, or your neighbor? Your answer to that question shows that you already prefer buying local. But spending your money inside your community isn't just satisfying for its own sake. There are several...
Tips to Prevent Check Fraud
With the substantial advances in technology and communication over the past 30 years, check fraud has also significantly increased. The unfortunate truth is that there are ever-expanding ways to take money from honest people and defraud financial institutions....
Why Hire a General Contractor to Build a Custom Home?
Mortgage rates are still historically low. If you would like to take advantage of such low rates while they are still available, then you may already be planning to build your own custom home. Building a custom home demands a lot of decision-making. One of the most...
What Is a Lease Buyout Loan?
Preowned vehicle prices have risen dramatically over the past couple of years. According to CarGurus, the average price for a used Ford on January 1st, 2020 was $20,392. On April 17th, 2022, the average price for a used Ford was $30,455 – an increase of 49.3%. This...
Mortgage Rates are Still Historically Low
When you consider the past three years alone, mortgage interest rates have risen dramatically. This is largely because the Federal Reserve pushed mortgage rates below 3% in order to offset the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021. Now that the American...