Biz Beat: Airplane hobby buys time for construction firm

Biz Beat: Airplane hobby buys time for construction firm As recently as mid-2009, Pat Panzera’s Construction Designs firmwas going gangbusters doing home remodeling work in Hanford andsurrounding areas. Then the foreclosure mess choked things off.Panzera laid off several workers, scaling down to a staffconsisting of himself, his wife and a grandson. Read more on The [...]

Does a 4.9% credit card loan beat a 9.2% home equity loan in terms of money savings and tax benefits?

I want to take out a $10,000 loan and I want to see if the credit card deal is better for overall savings. It’s a lower rate than the home equity loan, but will the higher APR of the Home Equity loan paired with the tax breaks be better than a lower credit card(i.e. non-deductible [...]