Women's Corner

You might think that prudent living is about having less and doing less, but it is actually doing more with what you have.

The blend of low house prices, still-low interest rates and appealing tax incentives can sure help the discerning buyers find real bargains. But the process of buying a home can be off-putting at times. The following tips can come handy:

Instead of going about it in a clueless fashion generally, plan the hiring process well in advance. And while you are doing it, the following pointers will come in handy:

Buying a house is the most valuable investment for most of us. Being a valuable asset, it calls for protection in the form of insurance.

For some, the ideal retirement may be sitting near the door steps of their house and watching the grandchildren play, for others it might be traveling around the world. Or it may be somewhere between these two extremes.

With their tremendous financial benefits, credit cards have revolutionized the American way of life. Their universal application has done away with the need to carry cash or sign check books for every single purchase. But their successful application calls for certain precautions.

One of the major financial concerns for families across the country, even before the onset of the current economic crisis, has been an ever-increasing credit card debt pile.

A sale of something as large as a house has a lot of factors influencing it, and you would do well to take care of certain basics to ensure the sale goes through properly.

One of the things you loathe is sitting down and sorting out your taxes. You are happier having someone tell you ‘this is the amount of tax you will have to pay for this year’ and paying it out, rather than sitting down and going through the painful process of calculating the tax due.