
Financing Auto Repairs
Cars are fine-tuned yet fickle machines, and even with regular maintenance checks, an expensive repair due to mechanical failure or damage from an accident can stall your budget. Putting high-ticket work on your credit card might ...

What is Business Valuation?
A business valuation appraises the monetary value of your company. While a business valuation is an essential part of selling a company, it can be useful even if you aren’t looking to sell your small business. An accurate, up-to-date ...

Tips to Keep Your Financial Records Well-Organized
Keeping your financial records well-organized is important for more than fulfilling regulations or legal requirements. It also helps you better understand your business, now and in the future. Without a proper record-keeping system, ...

Should You Finish Your Basement?
You bought your house with its unfinished basement assuming it would suffice as a storage and laundry area. Now you’re having second thoughts about it. Turning it into a safe, comfortable recreation area seems tempting, but ...

The Cost of Breaking Your Lease
When you sign up to rent an apartment or house, you sign a lease that sets out how much you will pay to live there and for how long. If you need to move out before the time is up, you will need to break your lease. Depending on ...

Why You Need to Update Your Business Plan
When you drafted your business plan, you outlined your goals and the path you’d take to achieve them. Now that your company is up and running, your business plan might not be an accurate representation of your new goals, the ...

Small Business Health Insurance Options
Health insurance is a benefit most workers demand from their employers. As a small business owner, you might be overwhelmed on how to provide health benefits to your employees or secure adequate coverage for yourself. But, there ...

Are You a Freelancer or a Small Business?
Not sure whether you should label yourself a freelancer or a small-business owner? The two concepts are very similar in many ways, but there are some distinct differences that should help you figure out what to put on your next ...

Should You Become a Landlord?
When you’re looking for places to invest your cash, buying a rental property might seem like an ideal investment. Money that comes in from rent payments is called passive income according to Investopedia because you aren’t ...

Financial Resources for Farmers
There is no question that farmers are essential workers. Without their dedication to the land, hard work and ingenuity, Americans would have little or no access to the food they need to sustain their health. Operating a 24/7 enterprise, ...
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