Beginner Level
This is the beginner level of Personal finance.
This section encompasses financial articles for beginners who want to manage money as well as their saving and investing. The Neighborhood Finance Guy covers budgeting, life insurance, how to buy your first home, your first investments up to retirement planning, and tax and estate planning.
Personal finance depends on your income, expenses, goals, and desires. As such, it’s important to become financially literate, so you can make S.M.A.R.T.E.R decisions.
Here are some beginner-level tips: Develop or follow the Net Max Financial Plan, Run an inventory of your assets and liabilities, Start tracking your wealth (also known as Net Worth), Set a Budget you can follow, Allocate at least 15% for additional debt pay downs, at Least 20%-30%% toward savings, and the rest to your needs.
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Amazing Financial Advice if You Make Less than $75,000 per year
Great financial advice if you are stuck in the middle and making less than $75,000 per year. Challenges are mounting, Grow with them.
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Millennial Millionaire Traits You Need to Know and How You Can Use Them
Even with the last decade of economic downturns and uncertainty, a new millennial millionaire is minted every month. According to Coldwell Banker, out of 72 million Millennials in America, roughly 700,000 are already millionaires. Beyond quiet-quitting, student loans, and their love of Starbux $SBUX, millennial millionaires share similar qualities to the old guard. Thus, understanding these traits can help you modify and adapt them, in order to reach new financial heights. While I know some will go to the corner and yell, “Impossible” in four languages, it’s actually doable. Especially if you feel like your back is against the wall financially, adopting these habits will be essential to thrive in the next…
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If You Think It Costs A lot Today, Check Out These 2050 Estimates
Nothing erodes Wealth faster than Inflation. If the cost is $67k in 2021, it will balloon to $140k by 2050. Are you making the adjustments?
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How We’re Building On Our $500,000 Investment Portfolio
A breakdown of our household's investments in 2023. Still, on track with the Net/Max Financial Plan to retire early.
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How a Great Budgeting Plan Can Help You Live Off of $112,000 Per Year for the Rest of your life
Most people are budgeting ineffectively. Fortunately, this Budgeting Plan Can Help You live off of $112K Per Year for the rest of your life.
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Here are the Top Recession Investing Strategies For Beginners
Your household recession investing strategy should help you prepare for financial emergencies, engage in wealth protection, boost dividend income, and scale.
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Here are the Top 10 Best Financial Resources that Helped Us Build Wealth
If you want to build wealth quickly and effectively, you need the best personal finance resources for the job. If you are new here, you stumbled on the best website that helps the average American live happily and wealthy. The Neighborhood Finance Guy is a powerful resource. We cover financial literacy topics, financial planning, Budgeting, Cash Management, Investing Strategies, and much more. We have over 400 blog posts and resources to prove it. Especially helpful for first-generation wealth builders. These resources scale from beginners making less than $40,000 per year to families making as much as $250,000 per year. I can tell you right now, if you part of the…
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Why You Should Follow These Baby Steps with Extreme Caution!
Financial literacy is way more than baby steps. It's a lot of challenging adult wealth-building. You will be pushed and this will change you.
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The 7 Highly Effective Ways to Achieve Your Goals
92% of people never achieve their goals. While that might be true for them, instead lets focus and learn from the eight percent. Back in 350 BC, Aristotle stated “Our goal in life is to achieve happiness, which comes in two varieties: the human happiness we achieve by exercising the virtues of character, and the godlike happiness we achieve when we grasp eternal truths.“ To reach this destination, the great philosopher emphasizes the importance of education and our own personal habits. Over 2,000 years later, Psychology Today agreed “Consistent habits allow us to achieve our goals.” Here are the 7 lessons to help you achieve your goals: 1. Begin with…
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How to Prepare and Recover from Financial Setbacks
Learning from past financial setbacks is a tried and proven method to build a Better Future. An Ameriprise Financial study found that 75% of American experience at least one major financial setback in their lifetime. This often come at a cost of more than $50,000. For 42% of Americans, the first financial mistake starts at college with unnecessary expenditures, credit card debt and student loans. We sign up early and get roped into a lifestyle of debt. Prior to the pandemic, many were on track to default on their student loans. So much so that one out of every ten Americans has defaulted on a student loan. An average of…