Podcast: Tax Time Safety Tips
The podcasts are back!!
Our latest podcast highlights tax time - yes, it’s that time of year! So if you’re thinking of jumping the gun and getting started on your taxes this weekend: wait!
Have a quick listen to these top tax time safety tips from Beth Givens, the director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse:
Top Tax Identity [...]
Get Organized in 2008!
Taxes, filing, inventories…sometimes you need to organize before you can start organizing!!
To help you make home office and home organizing a little easier, we spoke with Lisa Kanarek, home office organizing expert and author of “Home Office Solutions: Creating a Space That Works For Youâ€.
Here are her top recommendations about the things you can do [...]
Financial Wellness Month
Are your New Year’s resolutions focused on getting more organized and save some money? Here are a few articles and tips to help you keep that resolution going:
1. Talk to your insurance agent: Make sure you have enough coverage now so that you’re not racking up expensive credit cards bills in the wake of a [...]
Part Two - Insurance Riders: Do I Need One?
This is the second half of the article “Insurance Riders: Do I Need One” written by our guest insurance blogger, Stephen Hadhazi. Missed the first part? Read it here!
What’s the difference between replacement cost value and actual cash value? Does it really matter what coverage I have on my home owner’s policy? Stephen Hadhazi, a [...]
Insurance Riders: Do I Need One?
By Stephen Hadhazi, our guest insurance blogger, public insurance adjuster, and publisher of DocuDamage.com
You pay your homeowners premiums on time and feel reasonably comfortable that you are well covered should disaster ever strike, right? Wrong. Even if you think you have adequate coverage, you could be drastically underinsured. The typical homeowner’s insurance policy includes the [...]
A Friendly Reminder To…
Change your passwords! It’s important to update your passwords on a regular basis in order to keep out those pesky hackers and identity thieves.
1. Choose a “strong” password: your password should have numbers, letters and symbols (i.e. 5RT!sm345@). Why? Because these take much longer to hack (see previous post - How Strong Are Your Passwords?).
2. [...]
Four Professionals Everyone Should Keep on Speed Dial
Productivity and frugality blog, WiseBread, has a great post about the top 6 professionals that you should have in your phone’s contact list…just in case. I’ve narrowed their list down to three and added in one extra professional I think you really should have in case of emergencies:
Attorney: Whether it’s a car accident, medical lawsuit [...]
Cell Phone Stolen? You Might Have to Pay For The Thief’s Calls
According to a recent MSNBC article, cell phone companies “hold subscribers responsible for calls made with stolen phones. The bill for such calls can be thousands of dollars, and many carriers hold firm on the policy. That means you must report a stolen or lost phone quickly. Err on the side of caution. A phone [...]
Do Not Call Listings to Expire in 2008
Have you put your number on the do not call list? The Do Not Call list premiered in June 2003 and numbers placed on the registry are only valid for five years.
So if you’re not sure when you registered, plan to re-register next year anyway and mark it on your calendar. I’m sure there will [...]
Neat Site: Identity Theft Resource Center
Over 9 million Americans were affected by identity theft in the last year…were you a victim? Chances are you might not know it yet - the average time to detect identity theft is 14 months!
Today’s neat site, The Identity Theft Resource Center, offers helpful information for victims as well as for those looking to avoid [...]