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Pay Off Your Mortgage Early or Invest? Here’s How to Decide

BradAugust 8, 2025August 6, 2025

Paying down a mortgage early is perhaps the most commonly debated personal finance topic. If you advocate for paying it down early, you are immediately criticized for being unable to...

Housing Taxes

What is Homestead Portability in Florida? How to Keep Your Property Tax Savings as a Homeowner.

BradJune 27, 2025June 26, 2025

As a lifelong Floridian and fairly recent homeowner, I was aware of the Homestead Exemption yet unaware of Homestead Portability. Eager to learn more about this benefit, I turned to...

Housing Taxes

Could Florida Homeowners Be Tax-Free?

BradMarch 19, 2025April 17, 2025

We are three months into a year where every day a front page-worthy story is relegated to the back of the paper. Between D.O.G.E, the trade war, global conflicts, a...

Housing

Buying a House? Good Luck…

BradJune 20, 2022April 17, 2025

My fiancée and I recently purchased a house. Here’s the story… On the first Sunday in February, I called up an old friend from high school who works as a...

Housing

Housing: Should you Rent or Buy?

BradOctober 31, 2019November 1, 2019

When evaluating whether to buy or rent your own place, it appears as if the decision were quite simple. If you can cobble together enough cash for a down payment,...

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