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Howard Hill
Sales Associate, Realtor®
Howard has “walked the walk” with the choices he made with his personal finances when he was younger, and it’s a message he’s committed to offering his clients today.
“Make the right choices early on so you don’t have things chasing you,” he says.
Howard understood early on the importance of choosing the long-term over the short-term, and the importance of choosing something solid instead of something temporary.
“I bought a condo shortly after graduating college,” he explains. “But it wasn’t because I was rich. I had a plan. I deliberately lived at home a little while longer after graduation while I built up savings with my first job. I skipped the high-priced car and put my money into a mortgage.”
“Too often, people go for the car and the possessions and end up paying rent for far too long,” Howard says.
He recalls that a friend of his who made poor choices with his finances ended up renting Howard’s condo after Howard had moved on to another property.
Helping Howard understand the realities of money and finance is the accounting and financing degree he earned at Northern Illinois University. Howard is now a Certified Public Accountant.
Howard’s advice is to diversity one’s investments, and to have real estate be a sizable portion of those investments.
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