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Don’t Buy A Home When You Leave Active Duty

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Over three years ago, I suggested that buying a home on active duty is setting yourself up for financial failure. That post has aged exceptionally well, and now it’s time to double down. Don’t buy a home as you leave active duty, either. You’re setting yourself up for more financial failure and a heartache with mortgage underwriting. Instead, … [Read more...] about Don’t Buy A Home When You Leave Active Duty

Don’t Gut It Out To 20: Leave Active Duty For The Reserves Or National Guard

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This post gets personal. Let me give you the permission to think about these questions in your own career. A reader writes: I'm active duty and coming up on year #9 this May. I have owned your book for a few years and dig into the blog content on occasion. Love it! My question has to do specifically with one of the closing paragraphs in your … [Read more...] about Don’t Gut It Out To 20: Leave Active Duty For The Reserves Or National Guard