23 Mar What to expect when buying a home!
Buyer’s Information Guide For most of my blogs I’ve given information about Location, Single Women buying on their own, Investing in a condo or house etc...
28 Feb Good debt or bad debt? Do you know which is which?
Most of us hate the idea of “debt”. It represents something that is owed: an obligation we'd rather not have. And we always have the niggling feeling that the lender is benefitting much more than the borrower in the transaction. But not all debt is actually...
31 Jan Location… Location… Location!!!
The three repeated words that seem as obvious as the word itself, Location.
The official definition based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary is “a position or site occupied or available for occupancy or marked by some distinguishing feature”. Therefore, the position of the property, in relation to the area, that has distinguishing features to buyers is what makes the location so important. When one thinks of Beaconsfield South along the Lakeshore or Westpark area in DDO, we associate it with well to-do people or families because there location has prestige and sells well because they are in high demand for wealthy professionals.
15 Jan Top 10 Financial Resolutions
2014 is here! So, 2013 is gone, and we have a brand new year stretching ahead of us, full of potential. I love looking ahead at a year with no mistakes in it yet. Let’s resolve to make 2014 our most successful year yet! You’ve probably heard...
13 Nov Too late for you to build wealth?
As you've probably realized by now, I am a huge advocate of getting empowered and educated. As noted in articles such as this one by Sally Krawcheck for LinkedIn, “The Top Ten financial mistakes women make”, number one is allowing your husband / partner / anyone else make your financial decisions.
21 Oct Give yourself some credit
Give yourself some credit
You've decided you want to assert your financial power. Great! But... Where should you start?
30 Aug Don’t Pass the Buck!
I’ve been in the financial industry almost my entire business life, so I suppose I take my financial knowledge for granted. When I worked in private banking, some of my clients were older ladies, widows mostly, who were in the terribly uncomfortable position of finding that they knew almost nothing about the finances that their husbands had handled. Luckily their partners had set them up with professional money management accounts, so they had advisors looking after their investments. But when it came to paying bills and making purchasing decisions, they had no idea where to begin.