I am wanting to buy my first home and the home i found needs work. I want to take a home equity loan out to make the repairs but i dont know what kind of time frame i will be looking at to get one. Any advice would be much appreciated.

I’m soon to be 18 and am looking to get a credit card to help build credit. My dad said the best thing to do is to just use it to buy gas, but I’m not really all that up to date on how credit cards work and which ones are the best. Does anyone have any wise credit card wisdom to pass on to me?

The Student Loan Deduction allows you to deduct up to $2500. In 2007 I paid well over $2500 in interest and obviously want to take advantage of this.