Roofstock is an investment platform that allows you to invest in single-family rental properties.

Savvy stock market investors know that transaction fees can kill market gains.

Thankfully, technology has brought transaction costs close to zero for most stock market investors. Unfortunately, real estate investors haven’t had the same luck.

Over the course of five years, I’ve purchased three rental properties (and sold one). My average selling cost for each of these was $4,000. Plus, as a buyer I paid hundreds for inspection fees and due diligence fees.

As far as I know, the only company successfully lowering prices for rental real estate investors is Roofstock.com. Roofstock is an online marketplace for tenant-occupied real estate. Looking to become a real estate investor? Here's why you might want to consider looking for properties on Roofstock.

The debt snowball is a popular debt payoff strategy made famous by Dave Ramsey, but it might not be the best strategy for student loans.

In general, it can provide just the right amount of mental oomph to help people keep paying down their debt in hopes of one day being debt free.

But is the debt snowball best for those with students loans that have varying interest rates? As it turns out, the debt snowball is actually best for certain types of people. Others will see through it and choose a different route.

In this article, you’ll learn who the debt snowball is for and who may want to avoid it.

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It's complicated to pay for medical school. Medical school student loans play a large part for most doctors.

Medical school is expensive. There no way around that. However, doctors (in general) also earn significant salaries after graduation to potentially justify the high costs.

The average student loan debt of graduating doctors is $202,000. And then you still have years of residency (where you're only going to earn about $60,000 per year) before you get to really earning significant income.

As such, you need to know the options for how to pay for medical school and your medical degree in the most effective way possible. It can sound daunting to take out $200,000 in student loans, have years before you can start repayment, only for the hope of earning more in the future.

But you're going to be a doctor! You're going to save lives! Let's talk about how to keep your money in order and how to find the best loans to pay for medical school!

This is one of the most common questions I get almost everyday - I can't afford my Parent PLUS Loans, what do I do?

I'm a firm believer that parents should NOT be taking out loans to pay for their children's' education. There are a lot of reasons why it's a bad idea, and I cover most of them in my Forbes column.

The fact is, though, if you're reading this article, it's too late. You've already borrowed and now you're struggling to pay it back. And the most common way that parents borrow money to pay for college is through Parent PLUS Loans.

They sound like a good idea - parents can get Federal loans with all the great benefits that students get. The trouble is, that's wrong. In fact, Parent PLUS Loans taken out after July 1, 2026 don't offer any type of income-based repayment plan nor do they qualify any type of student loan forgiveness programs (well, once again, this is nuanced as well and we discuss below).

In fact, the options are extremely limited with Parent PLUS Loans. You have a few workarounds, but typically student loan refinancing or working together as a family are your best bets. If you're considering refinancing, we recommend Credible. There are some lenders that will allow you to even refinance your Parent PLUS loan into your child's name. Check out Credible here, and if you do refinance, get up to a $1,000 bonus!