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Will Downsizing Your House Improve Your Finances?

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Consumers figured out that giving up their daily McDonald’s breakfast on their way to work barely made a dent in their monthly budget.  Eventually the “brew your coffee at home and watch your credit card debt disappear” content stopped getting clicks, so personal finance experts stopped producing it and started saying what cash-strapped consumers… Read More »

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Think Twice Before Assuming Someone Else’s Mortgage

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Journalists have been saying for at least a year that the only way you can afford to be a first-time homebuyer is if your parents give you money for a down payment, co-sign with you on the mortgage loan, or both.  Where does that leave the rest of us who do not have wealthy… Read More »

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How Do the Holidays Affect Your Bankruptcy Plans?

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

It is no fun to listen to teens yap about how their stress will skyrocket to unbearable levels if you take away their devices even for a short time, but the fact that people are more open about their emotions now than they were a generation ago takes away one of the many stressors… Read More »

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Credit Card Debt After Retirement

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

The list of outdated personal finance axioms keeps growing.  For example, by now everyone knows that going without your morning coffee shop run will not make much of a dent in your debts, and when was the last time you saw someone who could afford to pay their credit card down to zero every… Read More »

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3 Exit Ramps From the Road to Bankruptcy

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Filing for bankruptcy protection can bring fast and significant relief from unaffordable debts, and everyone has the right to file for bankruptcy, but if it were as easy as it sounds, then everyone would do it.  Even though the bankruptcy court accepts almost all filings and eventually discharges the applicants’ eligible debts, filing for… Read More »

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Loan Origination Fees

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Everyone knows that, the wealthier you are, the less it costs to borrow money.  Some people focus on getting lower interest rates on loans as an incentive to improve their credit scores, but this is not the only difference in the cost of a loan.  Lenders can charge origination fees, equal to a percentage… Read More »

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Maxed Out Credit Card Blues

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Credit card debt is one of the most popular targets for paying more than the minimum payment each month, if you have any money in your budget to add a few dollars to the debt repayment category.  If you can manage to keep this up for a few months, you can see your balances… Read More »

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Closing Costs Are a Garbage Heap of Junk Fees

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

Time marches quickly, and the youngest members of the workforce, most of whom live paycheck to paycheck even if they have a salaried position, hardly remember the housing market crisis of 2008 and the response that followed.  The Occupy Wall Street movement of 2012 left two important effects, namely the formation of the Consumer… Read More »

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Unfair Denials of Insurance Claims Could Be Making Your Medical Debt Worse

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

If you still live in Florida after so many hurricanes, you must be a relentless optimist.  Therefore, the relentless optimist in you will look at the cost of your health insurance premiums and the amount you still have to pay after your insurance covers its portion and be glad that you have health insurance. … Read More »

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Can Artificial Intelligence Help You With Personal Finance?

By Nowack & Olson, PLLC |

People depend on devices for almost everything these days.  Artificial intelligence algorithms predict which news stories you would be most interested in reading, until you can’t imagine reading anywhere else.  When you get into your car, your smartphone guesses where you plan to drive and how long it will take to get there, and… Read More »

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