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Sell your own home - make more money
September 2008 consumer reports showed that when home owners sold their own homes, not only did they save on hefty realtor commissions, but they also got higher prices. In fact homeowners received $5,000 less on average when they sold through a realt...
Fraudulent Orders from Nigeria | Nigerian scams for businessmen
Nigerian scams are wide and varied. The most common is the email where you are promised vast sums of money by an heir or government official in return for your personal information and a bank account in which to house it. However it does not stop the...
Municipal bonds | What are municipal bonds
Municipal bonds are issued by any form of goverment agency that is lower than state level for e.g. cities and counties. The primary attraction of municipal bonds is that the interest generated is generally exempt from federal and state taxes. To comp...
Laddered CDs | Laddering Certificates of Deposit |
Laddering certificates of deposit refers to buying certificates of deposit for different terms. For e.g. if you have $100,000, instead of putting the entire amount in 1 certificate of deposit for say 5 years, you should put 10,000 in a 1 year CD, ano...
Certificates of Deposit - Non-traditional CDs
Apart from the traditional certificates of deposit discussed in my earlier posts there are other types of CDs as well.Liquid Certificates of Deposit - These allow you withdraw from your certificate of deposit at any time (generally after 7 days as m...
Certificates of Deposit - Different Types of CDs - Traditional CDs
Certificates of Deposit come in various shapes, sizes and flavors. Typically banks offer certificates of deposit based on1. Length of time2. Minimum amount of deposit3. Interest rateGenerally the greater the length of time, the higher the deposit. Th...

