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Timing the Market: How Interest Rates Impact Homebuying
When it comes to buying a home, timing is everything. One of the most critical factors to consider is the state of interest rates, as they significantly affect the cost of your mortgage and your long-term financial commitment. Understanding how interest rates work and strategically timing your purchase can help you save thousands of dollars and make the most of your investment. 1. Why Interest…
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Refinancing your mortgage with precision can bring a multitude of financial advantages. Lower interest rates, improved cash flow, and reduced monthly payments are just the beginning. Beyond financial gains, refinancing offers the opportunity to consolidate debt, access home equity, and enhance your overall financial stability. Let the Benefits of Refinance Mortgage guide you towards a more favorable and flexible financial future.
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Top Reasons to Refinance Your Mortgage
Refinancing a mortgage is a financial strategy that many homeowners consider at some point in their homeownership journey. Essentially, it involves replacing your existing mortgage with a new one, often on more favorable terms. Refinancing can be a powerful tool for managing your financial future, and there are several compelling reasons why homeowners choose to do it. In this blog post, we'll explore the top reasons to refinance your mortgage.
1. Lower Interest Rates
One of the most common reasons homeowners refinance their mortgages is to secure a lower interest rate. When interest rates drop below the rate on your current mortgage, it can be an excellent opportunity to refinance and reduce your monthly payments. Lower interest rates can save you thousands of dollars over the life of your loan, making it a financially savvy move. 2.Reduce Monthly Payments
If your current mortgage payments are straining your monthly budget, refinancing can help ease the burden. By extending the loan term or securing a lower interest rate, you can reduce your monthly payments, providing more breathing room for your finances. This can be especially beneficial during times of economic uncertainty or when facing unexpected expenses. 3.Shorten the Loan Term
Conversely, some homeowners choose to refinance to shorten the loan term. Switching from a 30-year to a 15-year mortgage, for example, can help you build equity faster and pay off your home sooner. While monthly payments may increase in this scenario, you'll save significantly on interest over the life of the loan.
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#Mortgage Refinancing#Lower Interest Rates#Reduce Monthly Payments#Shorten Loan Term#Access Home Equity#Cash-Out Refinance#Fixed-Rate Mortgage#Remove PMI#Improve Credit Score#Debt Consolidation
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i saw this tweet and found it interesting for two reasons. one is that some people base how good cartoon network would be to toh by how it treated su, and despite the fact that su’s treatment by the network was considered poor at the time, now its thought to be exceptionally good in comparison to modern shows.
two is how exactly su got impacted by a limited budget. a common criticism is how characters like connie, peridot, and lapis are left out of missions. but balancing a lot of characters is not only hard but also costly (extra animation, extra voices—it’s been revealed that the show is limited to a set number of characters per episode otherwise they’re over budget). animation mistakes are not uncommon since retakes cost extra. the entire reason the original show got cut short was due to loss of funding!
#i don’t know if pay rates differ per networks#but a.ivi and s.urrashu have said that they needed to work outside of su in order to make sufficient funds#it only makes me wonder what other ways su suffered from a lower budget#that we as the audience never got to see#in the vein of the too-little characters complaint#another part of that is that low-stakes episodes should’ve been abt the main cast instead of the townies#like last one out of beach city and too short to ride vs restaurant wars and kiki’s pizza delivery service#i definitely see that especially since that isn’t budget related#nor would it seem to be network related (even if cn had an ‘episodic episodes’ quota it could still be abt the gems#(another side note: /would/ cn even have a requirement that the show make episodes that can be watched standalone?#this is a question for the people who were around when su was airing#what episodes often got rerun?#was it the townie eps or the lore eps?#for example i heard that su once did a ‘peridot event’ where they just reran peridot episodes#which had eps that skip around in the show#did they even care about airing the story so that it made sense anyways?#id get it if the low stakes townie episodes were the ones getting rerun))#but i have such a boring view on that which is i think it’s simply because the creators like townie eps#like in interviews r.ebecca s.ugar has said she’s the type to be really invested in background characters#answers in interviews have been crafted in ways to hide what’s really going on though tbf#prime example of this is rebecca and ian saying the wedding being interrupted was meant to follow the common trope#when later in the art book they said that it was bc cn rejected the ep bc it ‘wasn’t interesting enough’#both could simultaneously be true! it’s a psychology thing though where people make up nice-sounding explanations behind what they create#in retrospect because they want it to be thought out in such a nice way they believe in it#the bigger problem is that not matter how many episodes there are of them#it can be hard for ppl to be invested in the townies the same way they are invested in the main cast#i’m sure that a million writers have made surefire advice on how to get an audience to care about characters#but off the top of my head i think it’s because 1. most don’t have strong motivations to get truly invested in#(exception is ronaldo but people find him too annoying to care about him)#okay i had more points and explanations but i hit the tag limit and idk if anyone is actually reading this so bye
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also just to continue my "fuck dave ramsey" posting, his most famous idea is the "debt snowball." first off, this assumes you like. actually have the spare income to pay off tens of thousands of dollars in debt in like half a year, so lets just ignore how stupid that is.
but the idea is, you list all of your debts from smallest to largest, and pay off the smallest one first. then you take the minimum payments you were making towards that one, combine it with the next smallest one, and pay THAT one off, until you've paid off everything.
we're also ignoring that this presumes you won't be getting any MORE debt, so like. just don't have any medical issues or broken appliances or car crashes or whatever i guess.
but the thing that gets me. that REALLY pisses me off here.
is that ITS NOT EVEN GOOD ADVICE????
like, sure, it sounds nice. it looks clean on paper. and it feels pretty good to say "i've paid off six different credit cards!" but it's focusing on the completely wrong thing. you SHOULD be paying attention to *which debt has the highest interest rate.* it doesn't mean shit if you pay off your $200 debt but your fastest-growing debt has accrued $300 more in the meantime.
i haven't even gone to accounting school yet but like basic math says if you want to save money in the long run, you should try and find ways to actually shrink the TOTAL amount of debt, not just the NUMBER of debts you have.
#and thats not necessarily gonna be by paying off that high-interest rate debt either#sometimes the best strategy is to take out a lower interest rate card and use THAT to pay off the larger one#or even refi your mortgage#since that usually has the lowest interest rate of all#its COMPLICATED and its WHY ACCOUNTANTS EXIST#again. there's no easy change-your-life solution#it needs to be specific to your circumstances
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I cant believe i just bought probiotics from some fancy grocery store....i've officially gone full californian
#Jrnlsht#Anyway sandwhich ate now we wait to see if my body goes haywire#The interesting thing is that my oxygen level is still at 4% lower than my normal resting rate
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i have literally never been in shape in my life literally never but the past few years i’ve been extra sedentary and i would like to start changing that (and improving my posture and insane pelvic tilt!). i need to write out a consistent routine i can stick to, i think exercising has always been intimidating bc there are both too many resources and no one telling me exactly what to do. so if you guys have any favorite routines or stretches or resources please let me know!!! i’m actually very motivated rn
#i really just cannot sustain my current level of decay it’s impacting my quality of life#to be very very clear i am not interesting in weight loss i’m interesting in building my core from zero and getting into better shape#so i can lower my resting heart rate and stop being in pain all the time. AND WHEEZING WHEJ I WALK ANYWHERE
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HSR x Fate UBW coming in Q3 2025 !
(I write these in mind for anyone doesn't know Fate series at all)
For now it's unknown will it come with stories or just skin or full pack with playable UBW character
Not long ago HSR had interview with FGO team, the magazine only release their Q&A but considering both side love each other project, these collab shouldn't really suprising. If there's suprising fact is why only UBW not FGO directly ? Since there is no info about collab details, let's make some analysis for now :
FGO especially Fate series is really big world ! If you need comparasion, it's not only Honkai Impact world but all Hoyoverse become one and you need to know at least a bit of each title to make sense about Fate series !
Continuing point above, which is the reason they gave us years for this collab ! Their developer consider years should be enough for player to quick read most Fate series franchise (lol)
Fate as whole already into their 20 years old now so it's kinda impossible for anyone to learn that series from start (even I only know fifty percent of it). So to make it simple, they just pick their well known franchise but not making players too confused about their world building which is Fate Stay Night. UBW is decent choice considering what's happened with other two.
If anyone need comparasion, UBW kinda like GGZ in term of popularity and reminiscing (lol) while FGO kinda like former Genshin in term of popularity.
I kinda saw FGO pretty desperate nowdays or maybe they're already out of idea to promote Fate series onward. For anyone doesn't know, FGO was the king of mobile gacha games but after Genshin release their revenue drop sharply and with more Chinese gacha games out lately, you can say now it's their lowest situations so to be honest Fate series feels like gonna dying sooner or later which is this collab came.
I can say for sure that this collab came from HSR side since those otaku ops growth like now while watching/reading Fate series (lol) so I think there's no way HSR or even Fate team will slack off especially for storytelling since it's Fate main selling (if there's one for collab later lol)
Onto collab prediction since it's specifically UBW, means the main character is either Rin or/and Emiya. Maybe anyone still not read questionable leaks but there's info this collab need two version to finish means there's at least four and max six new character avaliable later. Considering UBW stories, I can think of Saber and Gilgamesh or maybe Kirei can join the roaster too.
Now for everyone who doesn't know Fate series and need pointer for later collab, first please watch Fate Stay Night, it have three titles with same story premise but different PoV with different ending (Fate Stay Night 24 episode -> Fate Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works 1 movie -> Fate Stay Night Heaven's Feel 3 parts movie). Next it's Fate Stay Night prologue, Fate Zero 24 episode and you're good to breakthrough the collab only.
Sounds simple right, which is the reason they choose Unlimited Blade Works for collab. If FGO, you could swarm yourself with 9 years FGO lore materials + other works with and without "Fate" titles on it (lol)
#honkai star rail#fate grand order#fate stay night#unlimited blade works#if you asked me am I happy with this collab ?#the answer either yes and no#yes means hsr could learn from fgo storytelling (then again if the collab have story)#I once said that fgo have a best story and its much better than genshin hsr#yups since fgo storywriter kinoko nasu there (lol)#so yeah I more excited with nasu will write the story or not#no means since it's ubw#eh even it's different francise too I still can't excited#fate series mc aren't that appealing (lol)#even with different mc in the end it's saber again#anyways once nasu wrote one story worth of standalone franchise and it's still in fgo hall of fame (yups lb 6)#anyone read lb6 should know their godlike story...#it's masterpiece#if fate still famous I think lb6 should deserve an anime#nasu storywriting is what people called (at least) awesome to perfect#while genshin and hsr still soft on conclusion parts especially hsr#what the hell with 2.3 !?#still better than luofu but it still soft#but 2.3 makes me lower overall penacony rating#it's like you enjoy a full course but the dessert feels too sweet for overall dish#the course feels good but the last part kinda destroy your overall enjoyment (lol)#and what makes fate interesting is they write historical people pretty near the actual one#aside it's genderbender and white of course#you wanna know arthurian legend ? just read fgo saber and all her retainers profile (lol)#or shinsengumi ? they have some people too#or indian mahabarata
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It’s Official.
I have reached the age when you complain about the mail delivery service. I have now turned into my father, who did this in IL. Also currently obsessed with the mailbox at his MI address.
Me, on the other hand, I’m awaiting a 5 figure paper check. Then I’ll have to drive to the bank and deposit it. Then pay down a business credit card, so I can reserve a hotel and rental car for next week.
You bet your dupa I’m going to count all that time as billable hours.
If only I can get some new projects and raise my hourly rates. After all, it’s been a couple of years.
#would the Fed please lower the interest rates already#why can’t they just use direct deposit#stupid 30 year old building#stupid 30 year old way of doing business#all the other properties are connected#and use ACH to pay their vendors#maybe if I bitch about it#and write one more tag#the mail will get here
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My Netflix right now: We think there's a 93% chance that you'll like The Devil Judge
... thank you, Netflix, for your incredibly astute observation.
#Amethystina and Life#The Devil Judge#To be honest Netflix recommends me a lot of shit I don't like#So it's kind of hilarious when they finally DO pinpoint something I'd like#But also rate it lower than a lot of other things I have absolutely no interest in#Good job Netflix#In their defense#They raised it to 97% when I told them that yeah I love this#But that still puts it lower than One Piece which is somehow at 99%#Despite me never having watched a single anime on Netflix ever#I'm not saying I dislike One Piece since I might very well end up watching it sometime#But they have literally no reason to recommend that to me as confidently as they do
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I keep thinking that I don’t want to shiny hunt any more but then I somehow find something to shiny hunt. I have hunted so many things and my luck is absolutely insane for some reason??? Like I hunted every scarlet paradox and most of them I got in the first sandwich. A couple were second sandwich, roaring moon took 4. Then in my most recent hunt I got three shiny hoppip and a shiny yungoos in a single sandwich when I was hunting the entire hoppip line. Like legit HOW????
honestly, back when i did shiny hunts, i didn't even use sandwiches and i was still getting them relatively quickly. the longest hunt i did was the trapinch hunt, and that was probably because i never got any outbreaks and i was hunting it in an area where trapinch were like a 20% spawn while simultaneously using the masuda method. i don't think i had the shiny charm at that point, either—all things considered, before my jangmo-o hunt, all of my hunts were super inefficient by typical shiny hunting standards, and i still got all the ones i wanted. i think shiny hunting in sv is waaaaayyy easier than in all the other games just because of outbreaks raising the chances so much, sparkling power sandwiches, the picnic method to unspawn all the pokémon still working, and being able to see shinies in the overworld. that last point means i've just gotten an absurd amount of just random shinies of pokémon i did Not even want. so. i think it's something about the game giving Everyone absurd luck. which i support! it encouraged me to shiny hunt At All. i never would've shiny hunted on any game before this one if it wasn't so easy—and varied enough to make it fun, as opposed to just spinning around in circles and waiting like 30 seconds per encounter so that i could get into the fight and then run and everything. i think sv really streamlined the shiny hunting process and made it really nice. no point in keeping it difficult, tedious, and inaccessible forever, right?
fucking thing indeed. hell yes
#not pkmn#nose ratings#i've tried very Small shiny hunts in games before sv‚ but when it didn't work out really soon and i got really bored‚ i gave up pretty quic#that's why i think sv is kind of a revelation in shiny hunting. i get to run around and look at pokḿeon and see if they're shiny or not#instead of just biking around in circles hatching eggs. schnoooore#not to mention the environments of sv and the movement abilities make it much more interesting to move around in general#although i suppose it would be easier in legends arceus where shinies make a whole ass Noise when they spawn#but i also think shiny rates are lower in that game. so!
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Getting Your Finances in Order Before Buying a Home
Buying a home is one of the most significant financial decisions you’ll make, and preparing your finances is crucial for a smooth process. Taking the time to get your financial house in order can improve your chances of securing a mortgage, reduce stress, and help you make a purchase that aligns with your long-term goals. Here’s how to get started. 1. Assess Your Financial Health Before diving…
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when will neoliberalism end. i'm tired
#i want to eat fruit and play musical instruments and not be depressed#but all i got is this job that i actually like#i've been there full time for 5 years now and still the amount i owe in student loan debt is 3x all of the money i have#i did get them consolidated with a lower monthly payment and lower interest rate and i've got the public service part going bc i work#for a nonprofit. but jesus christ this sucks
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idk if this is an unpopular opinion i think its kind of in the middle. but i actually really like that almost every season of spn is like 20+ episodes and unapologetically takes random breaks inbetween huge chunks of plot to just go 'hey remember when these guys killed vampires and shit. heres them doing that again' not all of the motw episodes are hits as it gets further into the show and theyre a little bit more gimmicky and/or forced in but i do like them
#tired of every show nowadays having 7 episode seasons where the characters dont even take 5 minutes to just talk to each other#every show should have time for characters to just exist in their world without the weight of it crushing them#and not just the first 5 minutes of the pilot before the plot has started#i know that a lot of people feel that way which is why i dont think this opinion is unpoplar#but i also know that a lot of motw episodes of supernatural are rated lower than heavy hitting plot episodes#so maybe its just specific to this show#i feel like if the show had ended sooner (wasnt it supposed to end at 5?) people wouldnt hate them as much#it probably has to do with the fact that a ghost story can only be so unique and interesting 14 seasons into a Ghost Hunting Show#simon says
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not to be annoying or anything but it's been 9 years since the release of indie game undertale
#It's. One of my special interests#Like I have identifying Mediterranean animals on sight and I have memorizing every line of dialog in undertale#Those are my things. And I did recognize a seagul once by the sound while jetlagged and not paying attention so#Tbh I should probably play the game sometime. But also it'd be very funny to not play it#And then one day just like. Idk. Live stream playing undertale for the first time. But doing it w a blindfold#Check how far my knowledge spans for a person who has never once played the game#Like. I know muffets attacks are a repeating pattern. I know some attacks have audio so I'd use that as a guide#I'd go easy route on toriel and papyrus bc I know you can skip those by being bad at game#And I'm pretty sure I could memorize mad dummy patterns bc I remember there being like. A trick in the code#For if you're bad at the fight#Also you get astro food right before so I'd have good healing#So. Yeah the undyne and asgore and omega flowey fights are really the only things I have to watch out for I think??#Esp since I'm gonna do a bunch of tricks to get out of certain fights#Like. The thing with doing armor switches rapidly on mettaton for fast ratings boosts#Or the lowering of hp on mad dummy after the first hit so the fight can't last beyond a set number of turns if you're shit at it#Tbh yeah undyne is the only one that's actually scary all the way until asgore. That said I also think you can like. Skip that bit entirely#Like by backtracking before new home to get the undyne letter and doing true lab first. I think#Because that's the bit that's the true pacifist thing to do. Which actually true lab also scary#Like ok snowys mom and endogeny are easy but lemon bread and the memory heads are actually hard esp if u cant see#Also reaper bird but only after the everyman gets ate by the whimsun attack flies so I'm not super duper scared#And. I plan on temmie armor after mettaton. And bandage until then for running away from encounters#Just straight up my first time playing the game will be with a blindfold on and livestreamed#(I'd flex especially in that one echo flower room where if you kill toriel flowey taunts you with it)#But until then! Happy 9 years of being extremely neurodivergent :D
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Nothing more frustrating than having a dream set in an amazing book series and then waking up to find out it doesn’t exist. Guess I’VE gotta write this now
#it was so INTERESTING and vivid. i woke up like ‘i swear i’ve read this’ but it doesn’t actually exist#okay so the setting was this world where the moon has cracked in half (potentially due to human intervention idk)#the tides have gone super weird because of this#the majority of humans live at basically the tops of really really tall buildings. like at high altitude#at the lower levels; it’s just water. the lower down you go the humidity increases also#so as well as the humans who live at the top of the world there are vaporous species living at the mid level and there are mer-creatures#in the sea. god knows how agriculture works in this world. i know people had rooftop gardens#maybe everyone had adapted to a vegan diet or maybe there was trade with the mermaids to get fish. idk#anyway; the majority of my dream was concerned with this elite university academy and this one problematic student named alex#he had been sentenced to life imprisonment for basically insulting the government (this was a very totalitarian regime that had formed when#the world first cracked and everything went to shit)#but he would be able to get his sentence overturned if he took this one class (i think it was civics or politics or something#with a media focus) and basically created the best propaganda video imaginable#so they were basically requiring him to recant his claims publicly; endorse the government; and he had to do it so convincingly#that his video would be rated the best in the class#the other people in the class included these two sisters who also badly needed to pass in order to graduate#and a bunch of exchange students#also the sky is basically a television in this world#everyone is up so high that they can see the moon fractured in two and it’s Really close to the earth#but you can’t see much else in the sky. so they were doing shit like beaming everyone’s class schedules and syllabi and lists of what you#need to buy for class directly into the sky#i don’t know if i’m selling it but it was so INTERESTING. i was really annoyed when i woke up and realised i couldn’t actually read this#because it doesn’t exist#APPARENTLY i have to write it. which is worrying because i’m not at all good at worldbuilding. but honestly the dream was so vivid#i can basically just.. take it and expand on it very slightly#i think what interested me was the backdrop of this elite university that all the kids of rich family go to vs the obvious reality#of this world; where there is food scarcity and very little diversity of habitats. and a dictator#personal
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