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Housing

Understanding the housing market can help you gauge what financial steps are best for your future. This selection of activities and articles on best house-buying (and renting) practices teaches useful tips and tricks for saving, borrowing, and paying just the right amount for your next home.

Explore your options for buying a home: first-time buyer benefits, best age to buy, building vs. buying, foreclosure auctions, buying with parents, and owner financing.
Buying a Home: Exploring Your Options
By requiring you to make monthly payments, an escrow account ensures that your property taxes and homeowners insurance are always made.
All About Escrow Accounts

HELOC Calculator

2 min activity
Learn about HELOCs (Home Equity Lines of Credit) and see if you could be approved. Access funds for major expenses or projects. Explore your options now!
HELOC Calculator
Military service members receive special, life-changing benefits as a thank you for their services.
Benefits for Veterans

Credit Scores

3 min read
Every single time you use credit, the details are added to your credit report and used to influence your credit score.
Credit Scores
Make the first steps toward creating a college budget by learning specifics about fixed and variable expenses.
College Budget Breakdown
Whether it's a personal loan, credit card, or payment plan on a large purchase, you can see how long it may take to pay off the loan.
Debt Payoff Calculator

College and Careers

80 min activity
Prepare to enter the workforce, go to college, figure out rent and all those other post-high school responsibilities.
College and Careers