Archives: November 2013

Thanksgiving: A Quick History

If you have school aged children, they would tell you that Thanksgiving started with the Pilgrims who landed at Plymouth Rock back around 1621. By the 1660’s though, it was becoming a New England tradition to hold a harvest festival. The first nation-wide Thanksgiving was declared by President George Washington in 1789 “as a day […]



Another Refinancing Benefit

As a homeowner, you are probably familiar with the most popular reasons to refinance your home: building equity and saving loan interest. However, there is another reason to refinance that you might not have thought about which is removing someone from the loan. If or when there is a divorce case, and one of the […]



Investor Benefits: Mortgage Payments

When you own your home you are responsible for paying the mortgage. But what about investment property? Why not make your tenant pay your mortgage? A great benefit of mortgaged rental property is the build-up of equity. As you, the investor, collect rent and then pay expenses from that rent, your mortgage principal is paid […]



Are Assets Always Equal?

When finalizing a divorce, an important decision to be made is the division of assets between the husband and the wife. This exercise appears to be simple enough: put a value on each asset from the marriage and then divide those assets per a mutual signed agreement. A challenge arises when you need to make […]