Advisor Rules
Side-by-side comparison of what named personal-finance advisors publicly recommend on the money decisions people actually make.
Every advisor on this site has a documented framework — Financial Order of Operations, Baby Steps, the Conscious Spending Plan — and each of those frameworks says something specific about the same real-world decisions: buying a house, renting, buying versus leasing a car, funding retirement.
Advisor Rules puts those stances next to each other, one topic at a time, so it is easy to see where they agree and where they diverge. Every claim on the site links to the primary source it was drawn from. Claims still waiting for a fetched primary source are labelled Sourcing pending — never invented, never guessed.
Topics
Buying a home
Down payment, mortgage type, and share-of-income guardrails advisors publish for buying a primary residence.
Car buying vs. leasing
Buy used, buy new, or lease — what each advisor's framework says about acquiring a vehicle.
Debt payoff order
Snowball vs. avalanche — pay by balance or by interest rate, and which each advisor picks.
Emergency fund
How big a cushion to hold, how fast to build it, and what it should flex with — where each advisor lands.
Renting vs. buying
When advisors say renting is the right call — and when they say it isn't.
Retirement contributions
How much to save, in what order, and which accounts advisors want funded first.