As a very general rule, you can afford a house that is anywhere from 2 times to 2.5 times your yearly gross income (which is income before taxes).If you have two incomes in the soon-to-be household, then of course you’d combine those incomes and multiply by 2 or 2.5 to get a ...
If the continued existence of Electric Literature means something to you, please make a contribution today. When I first read Virginia Woolf’s dictum that “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction,” I was homeless. It wasn’t what most people picture...
Venter: In-house lawyer Venting about a(n): Other Region: Midwest Vent Level: Really Annoyed The Vent: Oh, please “Lawyer 14” — nothing like making vast generalizations while engaging in self-puffery (“I’m such a sterling, upright guy and my clients are all terrible”). Soun...
If that’s the case, how can you change that? Do you need the house you live in? Notice I didn’t say want, I said need. Do you actually need as much space as you currently have? What about the car you drive? Do you actually need it? The weekly restaurant visits? The nights ...
Aside from the part when I almost burned the house down, this bookhas made me feel like a gourmet chef.Every recipe is so full of layer upon layer of flavor. You would never believe tasting them that the recipes are so easy to make. In fact, the first week I that brought all my ...
Reading this story will not make me stop being a planner, and I hope that is not what you take from it either. However, it will serve as a reminder for me, and hopefully you, that there are many things we don’t control. Inevitably things will happen, both good and bad (and someti...
Everybody will be able to afford a nice house! Reply mlimberg December 3, 2012 at 8:44 am Dude, That’s how California has dug it’s hole…. doing more of the same and expecting things to be better, just not going to happen… And I have to sit ...
But you’d have to be very blinkered not to notice that Britain has gone from the top of the G7 table for economic growth to thenear the bottomentirely in the wake of the Referendum result. On theoretical grounds, short of ‘doing a Singapore’ I can’t see how Brexit can...
It leaves plenty of spending money for lifestyle today. Sure, it's far less than you could afford at that income level, but again, it's a choice. In fact, Iinitially built my wealth following this exact formula. It totally works. ...
As you likely already know, Margaret Mary Vojtko – an adjunct professor of French for 25 years – was found dead on her front lawn on September 1st. Facing mounting medical bills and lacking money to maintain or even heat her house, she died of a heart attack earlier that day. ...