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Debt vs. Retirement: Which Should You Prioritize?

Whether you should halt your retirement contributions in order to focus debt is one of the most heavily debated dilemmas in personal finance. Unlike “spend less than you earn” or “track every penny
Wells Fargo Way2Save Account Review: High-Yield Savings & Bonus Offers

Last week, I signed up for Wells Fargo’s Way2Save program to try to stow away some money at a higher rate than ING Direct. I can save some money at 5% APY and receive a bonus from the bank on my ann
Roth IRA: Understand the Rules & Get Started Saving for Retirement

Starting a Roth IRA is one of the easiest — and best — steps you can take to save for retirement. But you should understand the Roth IRA rules before investing in them. I know I’ve written a lot abou
Creating Your Legacy: Financial Planning for a Meaningful Future

Have you accepted yet that you’re going to die? Have you? Honestly? We’ve been doing it for thousands of years but, for some reason, most of us won’t figure out how to deal with it until it’s too lat
Condotels: Investment Potential & Risks - A Comprehensive Overview

A few months ago, Condotels was a new concept to me and sounded interesting, so I decided to do some digging. After some initial research, I found that the general consensus was that condotels do not
Index Funds: A Simple Path to Long-Term Investing Success

Like many other investors, J.D. and I are fans of taking the slow, sure path to wealth. We invest much of our money in index funds. An index fund is a low-maintenance, low-cost mutual fund designed t
Suze Orman Embraces Cash-Only Spending: A Financial Shift

For years now, Dave Ramsey has recommended ditching credit cards and paying with cash. (Specifically, Ramsey advocates the use of an envelope budgeting system.) In fact, this anti-credit card stance
The Case for a Secular Tithe: Giving Back Like a Tradition

My mother’s family is Catholic. They’re working class people from Buffalo: nurses, drugstore clerks, steel mill workers. Even though they never had a lot of dollars, they always gave 10% of what the
Reverse Mortgages: A Comprehensive Guide for Seniors

Whether through recent news articles or over the water cooler, you’ve probably heard something about reverse mortgages. But if you (or a loved one) is considering this type of loan, don’t base your o
Apartment Building Investing: A Cautionary Tale (No Money Down Attempt)

When I was 23, I bought an eight-unit apartment building with no money down. And I walked away with $1,000 cash at closing! Sounds pretty fancy, right? Wrong. It was one of the dumbest real estate
FNBO Direct Online Savings Account Review: High Yield & FDIC Insured

FNBO Direct is part of First National Bank of Omaha, a subsidiary of First National of Nebraska, Inc., and is FDIC-insured–a must when you’re looking for a financial institution. FNBO’s online saving
Fee-Only Financial Advisors: Benefits & How to Find One

A few weeks back, I wrote about having a financial health day at work. With the help of some of my Foolish colleagues, we’ve created a PDF that outlines how to host your own financial health day at w
Navigating High-Yield Savings: Checking, Savings, and CDs Explained

In a rocky economy, high interest rates are the holy grail of conservative investors, especially those who don’t want to invest in bonds. But in this rocky economy, “high interest” hasn’t really mean
Target Date Funds: A Comprehensive Guide to Choosing the Right One

So, you find the lazy way to invest very appealing: You like the simplicity and the long-term results. But you don’t want to bother with building your own lazy portfolio of index funds and adjusting
Understanding Stock Market Investments: A Realistic Perspective

Stocks stink. That’s something you hear a lot these days, and with good reason. The Standard & Poor’s 500 sits at around 1060, a threshold it first crossed in the beginning of 1998. In other word
Thriving in Stage 3: Building Wealth After Debt Freedom

I paid off the last of my debt in 2007, quit my day job in 2008, and have been working to build wealth ever since. As I wrote early last year, I’m in the Third Stage of personal finance: I’ve paid of
From Capitalism to Service: My Journey to the Peace Corps

This article is part of the “reader stories” feature at Get Rich Slowly. Some stories contain general advice; others are examples of how a GRS reader achieved financial success — or failure. These st
Certificate of Deposit (CD): Benefits & How They Work

The best way to think of a Certificate of Deposit (commonly known as a CD) is as a contract between you and a bank: you agree to give the bank a certain amount of money for a specified period of time
Money Market Accounts: A Comprehensive Guide | [Your Brand Name]

The most important thing to know about a money market account is that it is most similar to a savings account. Money market accounts can seem to occupy a gray area because they have a name similar to
The Skinny On Real Estate Investing: A Book Review

Book Week at Get Rich Slowly comes to a close today. Well, I guess tomorrow’s Ask the Readers is about books, but this is the final review. I’ve saved the best for last. Over the past year, I’ve had

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