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- Reader Story: I Bought a Fire Station for My First Home
- Living Like No One Else
- How I Made My Peace with Hiring a Housekeeper
- How My Real Estate Investing Adventure Came to an End
- Dinosaur Comics on the Rent vs. Buy Debate
- Lessons Learned from Rushing Into Real-Estate Investing
- The GRS Garden Project: January 2010 Update
- Does Renting Make Sense?
- Reader Story: Rental Properties for the Average Joe
- How I Bought an 8-Unit Apartment Building with No Money Down and Walked Away with $1000 Cash at Closing
- Reader Story: How I Cut 16 Years from My Mortgage in Just One Hour
- Energy-Efficiency Tax Credits Could Be Your Personal Government-Bailout Package
- Does It Still Make Sense to Refinance in Today’s Market?
- Is a Reverse Mortgage Right for You?
- Furniture and Scambags: Adventures on Craigslist
- Reader Story: A Very, Very Fine House
- How Much House Do You Need?
- The GRS Garden Project: October 2009 Update
- Which Comes First: The House or the Nest Egg?
- 9 Ways You Can Knock the Socks off Your Next Landlord
- Use a Lease Option to Lock in Low Home Prices
- The GRS Garden Project: September 2009 Update
- Pros and Cons: 30-Year Mortgage vs. 15-Year Mortgage
- Furniture Shopping Secrets: How to Tell Superior from Shoddy
- Renters Insurance: Peace of Mind for Ten Bucks a Month
- Should You Buy It? A Flowchart for Evaluating Potential Purchases
- Sweating the Big Stuff
- Further Adventures in My War on Stuff
- The GRS Garden Project: August 2009 Update
- Understanding Your Home Appraisal
- A Few Notes About Clotheslines
- The GRS Garden Project: July 2009 Update
- How to Buy a Mattress
- Preparing to Shop for a New Mattress
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 14: Home Improvement
- The GRS Garden Project: June 2009 Update
- How My Parents Saved $14,000 on Home Repairs
- Remnants of Things Past
- The Accidental Slumlord
- Cut Your Food Costs With a Stand-Alone Freezer
- The GRS Garden Project: May 2009 Update
- A First-Hand Account of the Subprime Mortgage Crisis
- Coping with Life’s Little Setbacks
- Learning to Do It Yourself
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Choose a Mortgage Broker?
- The Personal Finance Hour, Episode 7: Home Gardening
- The GRS Garden Project: April 2009 Update
- The Neighborhood Plant Swap
- 21st Century Real Estate: Use a Blog to Sell Your Home
- Why Our Heating Bill Ballooned This Winter
- The GRS Garden Project: March 2009 Update
- Why We Chose a 30-Year Mortgage
- 50 Tips for DIY Savings Around the House
- Mission Accomplished: Our Shiny New Mortgage
- Why You Shouldn’t Keep a Mortgage Just for the Tax Deduction
- Starting Seeds Indoors: Jump-Start Your Garden Today
- The GRS Garden Project: February 2009 Update
- Magazines (and Websites) About Homesteading and Self-Sufficiency
- Save Money with Regular Home Maintenance
- Refinancing Made Easy: Our Story
- The GRS Garden Project: January 2009 Update
- Ask the Readers: How to Rent Out Your Spare Room?
- Repair, Restore, Rejoice: Making the Most of Home Appliances
- 7 Tips for Starting Your Own Vegetable Garden
- The GRS Garden Project: Winners and Losers for 2008
- How to Save $5000 a Year — As a Homeowner or a Renter
- Ask the Readers: When Does It Make Sense to Refinance a Mortgage?
- 6 Must-Have Characteristics to Look for When Buying a Home
- The GRS Garden Project: November Update
- Plant a Tree to Add Beauty and Value to Your Home
- The Debt-to-Income Ratio: How Much House Can You Afford?
- The GRS Garden Project: October Update
- The First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit
- Dealing with Disaster: A Brief Guide to Emergency Preparedness
- The GRS Garden Project: September Update
- Drama in Real Life: Foreclosure!
- Could Tithing Lead Some Americans to Lose Their Homes?
- How to Prepare for Buying a Home
- The GRS Garden Project: August Update
- Fix Your Own Printer and Save Money
- Do-It-Yourself Landscaping Can Save Thousands
- Energy Conservation in Alaska: What Worked? What Did Not?
- The GRS Garden Project: July Update
- Back to Basics: A Guide to Traditional Skills
- Gardening Basics: What to Do with All That Extra Zucchini
- Selling Your Existing Home While Buying a New One
- 11 Tips for First-Time Homebuyers
- Estimate Your Electricity Costs with a Web-Based Calculator
- The GRS Garden Project: June Update
- Guarding Against the Invasion of Stuff
- How to Make Your Own Small-Batch Strawberry Jam
- Don’t Raid Your 401(k) to Make Mortgage Payments
- The GRS Garden Project: May Update
- The Giant Pool of Money: Anatomy of the Subprime Mortgage Mess
- The Rise of Suburban Farming
- The GRS Garden Project: April Update
- Frugality in Practice: Turn Your Junk Mail into Garden Mulch
- The Bountiful Container: Gardening in Small Spaces
- How to Get Rid of Ants (Without Calling an Exterminator)
- The GRS Garden Project: March Update
- Suze Orman’s Ultimate Protection Portfolio (and a Do-It-Yourself Alternative)
- Possessed: People Who are Ruled by Stuff
- The GRS Garden Project: February Update
- Will the Subprime Mortgage Crisis Turn the Suburbs Into Slums?
- Home-Made Treats for Backyard Birds
- Ask the Readers: How to Choose VOIP Telephone Service?
- Energy Star: Saving Money Through Energy Efficiency
- Mortgage Prepayment Made Easy: Own Your Home in Half the Time
- The GRS Garden Project: January Update
- The Year-Long GRS Project: How Much Does a Garden Really Save?
- Advice and Tips for First-Time Homebuyers
- Using a Home Equity Loan to Pay Off Credit Cards
- The Thrill of Paying Off a Mortgage
- The Pros and Cons of an Interest-Only Mortgage
- Frugality in Practice: Keeping Warm in Winter
- The New York Times Rent vs. Buy Calculator
- How Much Do Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Really Cost?
- House Math 2.0: A Real-Estate Analysis Tool
- Ask the Readers: Buy a Home, or Max Out Retirement Savings?
- Learning to Love the Not-So-Big House
- Two Quick Kitchen Hacks
- Accelerated Mortgage Payments (and the GRS Amortization Calculator)
- Is a Money Merge Account a Good Way to Pay Off Your Mortgage?
- Frugality in Practice: Home-Made Grape Juice
- Frugality in Practice: Do-it-Yourself Home Maintenance
- Blow-by-Blow Account of a Housing Addition, part four: Combating Murphy’s Law
- Every Penny Counts: Saving for Big Goals
- Blow-by-Blow Account of a Housing Addition, part three: Construction
- Extreme Personal Finance: From Penthouse to RV
- Blow-by-Blow Account of a Housing Addition, part two: Capitalization
- Getting the Guts to Relocate to a Cheaper City
- Blow-by-Blow Account of a Housing Addition, part one: Costs
- Renting vs. Buying: The Realities of Home-Ownership
- Ask the Readers: What if You’re Frugal But Your Roommates Aren’t?
- Ask the Readers: What’s the Best Way to Save for a Down Payment?
- Ask the Readers: Is It Better to Invest or to Prepay a Mortgage?
- Save Big By Canceling Private Mortgage Insurance
- Fact or Fiction: Can a Rain Barrel Save You Money?
- The Minimalist and the No-Frills Kitchen
- An Introduction to Square-Foot Gardening
- Home Depot to Give Away Compact Fluorescent Bulbs this Sunday
- Ask the Readers: Cheap Places to Live?
- Frugality in Practice: A Cheap Defense Against Weeds
- The Real Estate Roller Coaster
- The Rentometer: How Does YOUR Rent Compare?
- How to Find a Contractor: It’s Not Just About Price
- Ask the Readers: Save for a Down Payment, or Put Money into Home Equity?
- When to Replace Common Household Items
- How Home and Community Affect Our Wealth
- Extreme Personal Finance: Homeless By Choice
- Loan.com: A New Site for Home Loan Info
- 15 Tools Every Homeowner Should Own
- The Seller’s Gift: How To Buy a Home With No Down Payment
- Ask the Readers: How Do You Buy One Home While Selling Another?
- Tiny London Apartment for $334,000
- 7 Mistakes That Make Homeowners Targets for Burglars
- How I Bought My House With Very Little Of My Own Money
- Save Money on Plumbing Whether or Not You Do It Yourself
- Cheap Ways to Stay Warm this Winter
- Review: Kill-a-Watt Electricity Usage Monitor
- Curbly: A Community-Based DIY Site
- Remodeling a Home, part two: A Leak in the Attic
- Remodeling a Home, part one: Little Surprises
- Buying a Home, part seven: First-Time Homeowners
- What Happens When You Try to Get Rich Quickly
- Buying a Home, part six: The Close
- Free Home-Equity Information Kit
- Buying a Home, part five: Preparing to Close
- Buying a Home, part four: Calm Before the Storm
- Buying a Home, part three: Dealing with Debt
- 20 Free Ways to Save Energy
- Buying a Home, part two: Making the Offer
- Buying a Home, part one: Looking at Houses
- Beware of Nightmare Mortgages
- Housing Bubble: Reading Between the For-Sale Signs
- Programmable Thermostats: A Three-Month Review
- Extreme Personal Finance: How to Pay Off Your Mortgage in Three Years
- Free Web-Based Home Energy Analyzer
- Our First Lesson in the Costs of Homeownership
- Most Overpriced Housing Markets
- 25 Cheap Ways to Keep Your House Cooler
- Cheap Places to Live Rich
- Save Money by Switching to Compact Fluorescents
- Should You Prepay Your Mortgage?
- Coping with an Adustable Rate Mortgage
- Saving Electricity: How to Reduce Your Energy Costs
- Reader Question: Buying a House Without a Credit History?
- Workshops and Craft Rooms
- Housing: Rent vs. Buy Calculator
- How to Slash Summer Energy Costs
- Quick and Easy Yellow-Jacket Trap
- Why a 50-Year Mortgage is a Bad Idea
- Quick and Easy Self-Watering Garden Planters
- What I Wish I Knew Then About Home Buying
