If your like me you make extra principal payments to your mortgage. My wife and I are currently focusing on prepaying one of our mortgages with the highest interest rate. The mortgage is a 30yr fixed @ 6.5% administered by Chase on House #2 (rental). We currently contribute an extra $75/mo for ...

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The final details of the government program that encourages people to trade in older, gas-guzzling cars for more fuel-efficient ones will be released Friday. But car dealers have been using the program to sell cars for weeks.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us Read more about Dealerships Give 'Cash For Clunkers' A Jump-Start...

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Previously in my semi-regular Extreme Personal Finance series, I’ve highlighted: A couple who paid off their $220,000 mortgage in three years People who live on $12,000 a year Don Schrader, the man who lives on $10 a day Rina Kelley, the reporter who lived for one month as a freegan Yesterday, my friend Castle sent me the story of a ...

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An equation for success Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter Many web sites have had to yank the “Alice in Wonderland” trailer because of copyright issues, and several seasoned YouTube users have created fake “Alice in Wonderland” trailers. And some pranksters have done such brilliant and creative things as labeling a Rick Astley music video as “Alice ...

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Publisher's Weekly just released their annual salary survey results. No big surprise: raises were lower and job dissatisfaction was higher!Some stats from their data, which was based on 1,408 responses to an online survey sent to the magazine's subscribers:The average raise in 2008 was only 3.3%, down from a recent high of 5.3% in 2005Only ...

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