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Home Tips

Warning Signs That a Cash Offer for Your Home Is a Scam

Scammers take advantage of distressed homeowners in a variety of deceptive ways. Learn the warning signs that a cash offer for your home is a scam.

Home Buying

Buying a Home? How it Impacts Your Personal Finances

Owning a home is the pillar of almost every American dream. Buying a home is classified as an investment because it enables you to save a considerable sum of money.

Consumer Tips

Looming Crisis: How To Get Prepared

A category 3 hurricane is bearing down on your area or a wildfire threatens to burn out of control, putting you and your loved ones in harm’s way. Not all disasters give us much warning, including earthquakes that rattle west coast cities or a tsunami that washes away a tiny fishing village.

Consumer Tips

You Can Rent Out Your Home for the Short Term

The travel bug has bitten you and you’re ready to head out for several months in a bid to see much of the world. Your plans have you traveling across five or six continents and you’re not about to rush your way from destination to destination.

Consumer Tips

15 Money Tips for the New Year

A new year means fresh possibilities, but your dreams may not come true without smart planning. The following 15 money tips can be rolled out in the coming year, ideas to help you generate wealth and live smarter.

Insurance

What You Need to Know About Home Insurance

There is an excellent chance that if you own a home that you have homeowners insurance. For one, your lender requires this coverage to protect itself from loss. For another, you buy insurance for the same reason.

Home Buying

Choosing the Right New Home Neighborhood

If you are in the market for a new home, then you want to choose a neighborhood that is right for you. Likely, this means an area of the community that is safe, has a good mix of housing units available and offers solid investment potential.

Consumer Tips

How to Save Money on Thanksgiving

Tweet Each of us has much to be thankful for, and this year many of us will spend the day showing gratitude for our families and friends over a holiday

Money Management

12 Sensible and Fun Money-Saving Tips

Tweet Trying to save money is a drag, isn’t it? Well, it is a necessary matter for most Americans, who are feeling the squeeze from stagnant incomes, falling home values

Home Improvement

How to Install Built-In Shelving

Tweet That place can be shelving, but unless you are using built-in shelving, you may be concerned that a free standing bookcase or other shelving is too dangerous to place

Home Tips

11 Reasons Why Renting Can be Better than Owning a Home

Tweet Here are 11 reasons why renting your home can be a better living solution than buying property. 1: You may be able to live in a nicer or more

Home Tips

How to Recover From a Natural Disaster

Tweet Get back on your feet quickly by following these steps. Recovering from a natural disaster takes time, but can move forward if you play an active part in this

Home Tips

Should I Insulate My Garage Door?

Tweet By Tom Drake Have you ever noticed how steaming hot your garage gets in the summer and how freezing cold the room above it gets in the winter? This

Consumer Tips

Operating A Fire Extinguisher 101

Tweet By Chris Curry Some of us may be under the false impression that anyone can simply pick up a fire extinguisher and instinctively know what to do.  Unfortunately, that

Home Improvement Home Tips

Maintain Your Deck To Extend Its Life

Tweet When it comes to outdoor enhancements to your property, I can’t think of anything better to have with a home than a deck. With a deck, you are able