Beadle’s Half Dime Books

Beadle and Adams was a publishing house in New York that put out a ton of books in the late 19th century. The blog header and these covers are from some of their publications.

Forty Year Mortgage

Okay, I will stop with all the personal finance/debt posts for a while after this one but I couldn’t resist. CitiMortgage is giving me some good material lately. I received my mortgage statement today. On the back of the envelope was an advertisement for moving to a 40 year mortgage. Maybe [...]

Paying a Mortgage Down Early

Have you received the offers from your mortgage company that allow you to split your currently monthly payment in half and pay that amount every 2 weeks rather than paying only monthly?
This is a good plan that does work. On a $200k mortgage at 6.5% you would make scheduled interest payments of more than [...]