Managing Home and Personal Finances

Here is where we delve a bit deeper into how you deal with the money that comes in and goes out every month. Your home is your castle, as they say, and here is where we explore concrete and detailed ways of turning your household into a strong financial fort. In recent years, the American dream of owning a home has suffered seriously from the popped housing bubble, the housing market slump, the credit crisis, and rising mortgage defaults nationwide. That’s why it’s more important than ever to understand how to find and maintain the right kind of mortgage for you and how to avoid trouble with it down the road.

Housing is usually the largest piece of your monthly financial pie, but another increasingly large slice goes to health insurance and other health-related expenses. We devote a whole chapter on health insurance and ways to reduce your medical costs. And we address ways of using the greatest information tool of all time, the Internet, to help you in your new quest for financial self-empowerment.