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Your 5-step recipe for financial success

by Christy Bieber for The Motley Fool   @CNNMoney November 27, 2017: 10:07 AM ET   Search the question “what is financial success?” on the internet, and you’ll get millions of results with countless different answers. While some define financial success as having a few million in the bank, for others, financial success is as simple as being able to afford the roof over their heads or to send their kids to college without incurring tons of debt. While there…

Looking for a Newly Constructed Home? You Have Good Timing

By Clare Trapasso | Nov 27, 2017 After several years of a frenzied housing market characterized by many more home buyers than sellers, builders may finally be taking note. The number of newly constructed homes for sale and sold shot up 6.2% from September to October, according to the seasonally adjusted numbers in a joint report by the U.S. Census Bureau and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. They jumped 18.7% annually. (realtor.com® looked only at the seasonally adjusted numbers in the report. These have…

Here’s how long it would take for millennials to buy a home in every US state

By Emmie Martin   Millennials aren’t becoming home owners as quickly as their predecessors. One major reason: They simply can’t afford it. In pricey states such as Hawaii or California, saving up to buy a home could take millennials up to a decade. However, in other more affordable locations, such as West Virginia and Ohio, the process can take as little as two and a half years. That’s according to new data, which identified the most and least affordable states…