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How to Financially Prepare Your Teenager For Buying Their First Car

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There are few milestones that teenagers look forward to more than getting their driver’s license. In fact, about the only thing that could top that is for a teen to get a car to go along with that driver’s license. A car can be a significant investment, though, meaning that it’s wise to help prepare both you and your teen to take on this major change.

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Things that Cause Your Car to Lose Value

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Some owners enjoy customizing their cars, but personalization only goes so far when it comes to profit. While regular maintenance and certain upgrades can preserve a car’s value over time, there are other modifications that ultimately work against a car’s future sale value. These four things that impact a car’s value may be done without the owner even realizing the potential harm they cause; the good news is that all of them are easy to avoid and even correct if they’ve already been done.

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4 Auto Body Repairs That May (or May Not) Protect Your Car’s Value

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An automobile is almost essential to modern life in many areas. It is useful and convenient, but it’s also one of the things that will begin to depreciate in value as soon as it leaves the lot. Although you can’t stop the loss of some of your car’s value, there are a few ways that you can protect it. In the process of keeping the value, you can also perform repairs that will protect your vehicle mechanically.

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How to Make a New Car Affordable

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If you’re like most families, then you must adhere to a pretty strict budget. This means any new purchase, particularly a big one like a car, gets a great deal of scrutiny. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t afford to buy a new car for your family. It just means you need to be wise about it. Here are some tips for finding the best deals on a new vehicle for your family.

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Regular Maintenance Will Save You Money

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It doesn’t matter how big your home is or how many people there are in your family – trying to save as much money as possible is just the smart thing to do. Although it may cost you a bit of money upfront, regular maintenance will save you money in the long run.  Luckily, there are lots of ways to save money on maintenance without compromising the health and happiness of your loved ones. So, what are some of the most effective ways to do so?

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Car Hunting on a Budget

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We strongly recommend only buying a car that you can pay cash for. Even if you just start with an old “beater” and then take the money that you would have spent on payments and pay them to yourself until you can afford to buy something better. However,  most people don’t have the cash to buy a car and don’t follow this “beater” system. Thus, they must finance their vehicle and end up paying extra for interest. To make matters worse, some buyers make the mistake of not doing their homework, and this causes them to lose hundreds or even thousands of dollars in a bad deal. Read on for advice on buying a car on a budget.

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Car Financing

Say Hello to a Good Buy: How to Make Financing a Car Less Complicated

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If you look at your car and wonder how much longer it’s going to get you where you need to go, it might be necessary to replace it with a newer model. If you haven’t saved up enough to pay cash for your next vehicle, the thought of financing a vehicle may be frightening, but it doesn’t have to be that way. You can find financing that is simple and straightforward. Here are a few suggestions to help.

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Not Saving Enough?

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If you are concerned about your current savings account balance, the first step is to actually seriously commit to saving more. There is an old saying which says “Nothing Changes Until You Do”.  Your savings won’t increase until YOU change the way you do things and the priority you give to savings.  Those people without any savings if they want to do something fun and the vast majority will be able to find the money to do it, so it’s not that they don’t have the money to save… it’s just not a high priority. So the first step in increasing your emergency fund, your savings account or your retirement fund is to make it a priority. Once you’ve done that you can look for places where you can save money to redirect into those savings accounts. Here are a few effective ways to save money that you may not currently be using.

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Money Milestones

Has Your Family Hit These Money Milestones?

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One of the biggest concerns financial planners talk about is the possibility of an impending retirement crisis. Many Americans have very little money squirreled away for their golden years. When it comes to retirement, hope alone won’t cut it. People need to start planning as early as possible for the later years. Here are some money milestones future retirees should begin working on sooner, rather than later. 

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