Friends can give us great advice on where to go on holiday, the latest up and coming restaurant to eat in, even what shops we should use to update our wardrobe, but when it comes to something as important as not paying your council tax then you really need slightly more professional and accurate advice. Your council tax is deemed…
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Buy or Rent?
I’m not convinced by all of these articles I’ve been reading recently about the difference in cost between buying and renting, and I’m not in any way making a comment on the Tories new right to buy plans – we’ll come back to that nonsense another day. Most of the articles promoting buying over renting seem to be written or…
Read MoreDon’t try to deal with debt on your own.
Debt in itself doesn’t have to be a problem. Most of us will borrow money at some point in our lives, and pay it off without any problem. It can be long term to help buy a house or short term to help when we need to buy something that we don’t have the cash for at the time we…
Read MoreBack to basics
It’s Money Week this week so let’s get right back to the basics of money – a budget. You can’t manage your money successfully without one. It’s a shame that so many people see it so negatively. One of the most common comments that I hear about making a budget, and the one thing that puts people off the idea…
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