Shannon McNay

Are you in the process of selling your home? Could you use some help selling it for more — without breaking your budget? You’re in luck! Here are a few tips to help you move your home off the market faster and sell for more so you can move on to the next home of… Read More

Tax season is now over and wedding season is underway. So what if you’re recently married (or soon to be married) and you’re already thinking about taxes for next year? Do you know if you want to file together or separately? While filing jointly is commonly considered the best way to go, there are a… Read More

Are wedding bells in your near future? If so, congratulations — and get ready! While you may have long dreamed of the day you’d put on a white dress or the day you’d see your bride walk down the aisle, it’s unlikely that you imagined the amount of planning and emotional turmoil you’d go through… Read More

These days it seems that all anyone can talk about is student loan debt. Defaults are on the rise and we’re dangerously close to a bubble burst the size of the mortgage crisis just a few years ago. But with the attention student loan debt gets in the media, there is a group of people… Read More

College students of years past used to spend four (sometimes five) years working to find their passion, build their skills and networks, and find a job in the “real world.” However, today’s college students have a whole new challenge to face: dealing with debt in a slow job market. With average student loan debt hovering… Read More

I have a confession to make. And coming from a personal finance writer, this one’s a biggie. I don’t usually check my credit report. I know how bad this is! If you told me you never checked your credit report, I’d probably go into full lecture mode convincing you to change your ways. So why… Read More

By this time of year, most of our New Year’s resolutions have been long abandoned, with our old habits remaining firmly in place. But it’s never too late to make a get-out-of-debt plan that you can actually maintain. And how do you make a plan that sticks? Well first it helps to determine your motivation… Read More

We all know that the best way to make money grow is to invest — but the stock market can be a scary, unpredictable beast to those who don’t have experience with it. That’s why many choose to invest in real estate — whether it’s for your own home’s equity, buying homes to flip them,… Read More

One of the things many of us think about as children is growing up and buying a house. It seems like the crux of reaching adulthood. But if you take the leap into homeownership before you’re ready, you could quickly fall into a financial disaster that may take years from which to recover. So before… Read More

When it comes to debt, we each tend to think of different types of debt in different ways. For example, you may feel “normal” for having an auto loan but ashamed of having credit card debt. So what about real estate? People purchase real estate — either as a home to live in or as… Read More