Comments on: Surviving a layoff….even if it is NOT you! http://www.startupnation.com/business-blogs/index.php/2009/12/15/surviving-a-layoffeven-if-it-is-not-you/ By entrepreneurs. For entrepreneurs. Sun, 27 May 2012 02:29:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Shakira Brown, PR/Marketing Expert http://www.startupnation.com/business-blogs/index.php/2009/12/15/surviving-a-layoffeven-if-it-is-not-you/#comment-34826 Shakira Brown, PR/Marketing Expert Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:45:17 +0000 http://www.startupnation.com/blogs/?p=4649#comment-34826 Much of the advice I received in the early part of this decade was to buy a house. I kept meeting loan officers, and real estate brokers who just wanted to put me in a house(for commissions no doubt). I hesitated because I did not have a savings. Even when they said "you dont need money" I backed off. It just didn't make sense. Instead I saved so that I would have a resource if something bad happened. It was the best thing I have ever done. I am now hearing financial experts saying "perhaps owning a home isn't the best way to position your financials." Today - cash is KING. Pay cash, use credit sparingly and save whatever and whenever you can. Shakira Brown, Co-Founder http://BestBusinessMastery.com Award-Winning PR and Marketing Expert Much of the advice I received in the early part of this decade was to buy a house. I kept meeting loan officers, and real estate brokers who just wanted to put me in a house(for commissions no doubt).

I hesitated because I did not have a savings. Even when they said “you dont need money” I backed off. It just didn’t make sense.

Instead I saved so that I would have a resource if something bad happened. It was the best thing I have ever done. I am now hearing financial experts saying “perhaps owning a home isn’t the best way to position your financials.”

Today - cash is KING. Pay cash, use credit sparingly and save whatever and whenever you can.

Shakira Brown, Co-Founder http://BestBusinessMastery.com
Award-Winning PR and Marketing Expert

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