Home ownership is a staple of a financially healthy family. As Dave Ramsey says, “The paid off home mortgage has taken the place of the BMW as the status symbol of choice.”  By your mid-20s, home ownership should become one of your life goals. Buying a house is not like going to the grocery store and picking up everything on your list. It requires planning, preparation, and patience. Planning: Know how much money you can afford monthly for a mortgage payment. You want to avoid being house poor. House poor means spending a large proportion of your income on making a mortgage payment, but leaves...

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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself - Don Peebles If you check out the top ten Forbes list for African Americans, you’ll see very familiar names in entertainment.  You’ll see Oprah, Bill Cosby, Jay-Z, Puff Daddy and Tyler Perry. Not a huge surprise that the wealthiest in our community made it big in entertainment. However, entertainment is not the only path to huge success. Allow me to introduce you to the richest non-entertainment African American mogul, Don Peebles. Don Peebles is a real estate developer who got his start in Washington, DC. He dropped out of Rutgers University after...

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