If you're lending to a relative or friend, you'll want to craft a written agreement. This sample promissory note (also available in Microsoft Word, PDF and plain text downloadable files) spells out ...

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You have to spend money to make money, as the old saying goes. But sometimes you have to borrow money to spend money, too. “It’s really the most important legal document that establishes the ...

Cash might be considered king, but it isn’t realistic to pay cash for every purchase in your life, such as buying a home or car or paying for a large renovation project. Those are all instances when ...

Quite simply, a promissory note is a promise to pay or IOU. It is a formal commitment (also known as a loan agreement or contract) between two parties that is usually necessary when money is borrowed ...

A promissory note is an agreement between a borrower and a lender. To ensure that the borrower repays the loan, the lender needs to have the borrower's promise to repay the money in writing. The ...

A promissory note is a contract, a binding agreement that someone will pay your business a sum of money. However under some circumstances – if the note has been altered, it wasn't correctly written, ...