6 Car Buying Tactics for People with Bad Credit
While bad credit won’t stop you from being able to buy a car, it can make the decision to do so much tougher. After…
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When Does it Make Sense to Get a Personal Loan?
Whether you need money to pay for an emergency, want to consolidate debts, are planning a wedding, or financing your business, a personal loan…
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5 Strategies to Give Your Debt Repayment a Psychological Boost
Paying off debt takes a fair amount of discipline and willpower. When your payoff goal is years away, it’s easy to feel like giving…
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How to Improve Your Credit Score While You’re in Debt
Your credit score doesn’t depend on how much money you make or your checking account’s balance, but it can be difficult to improve your…
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How Does Debt Affect Your Mental Health?
In the United States, the average student loan borrower carries over $48,000 worth of student loan debt and the average household carries more than…
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Can’t Make Your Car Payments? Try These Strategies
For most of us, our car is an essential tool in our daily lives. It takes us where we need to go (most notably…
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How to Make Money from Your Old Car (aka Clunker)
If you have an old clunker lying around, you might want to turn it into cash. If it’s your primary vehicle, then it may…
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For-profit College 101: What We Can Learn from the ITT Tech Fallout
We’ve talked before about how for-profit educational institutions pose a greater consumer risk than their nonprofit counterparts. That’s because students at for-profit schools graduate…
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