Insurance
How to Reduce Your Car Insurance Payment
As the price of gas gets worse, food prices rise out of control and finding a reasonable mortgage gets more and more difficult, we need to find a better way to save money. One way is through our car insurance. My significant other and I both have USAA and we both love it. But I [...]
Flood Insurance for Your Home
FEMA has gotten a fair amount of criticism after Katrina and after reading their “Myths-and-Facts” regarding that whole mess, I am still not wholly convinced that FEMA was/is really on the ball as far as disaster relief. Having said that, however, there is a fair amount of other information that they present that might be [...]
Pay Off Your Mortgage By Age 65
Being a recent first time home-buyer, my final mortgage payment is comical to think about. And this is exactly why many people don’t think about actually paying off their mortgages, ever. The Washington Post recently reported that, “more than 55 percent of boomers who have mortgages do not plan to pay their mortgages off until [...]
Simple Ways to Boost Your Credit Score
Improving and maintaining your credit score is one of the best ways to qualify for lower interest rates, acquire credit, and reduced insurance premiums. However, the majority of us don’t keep a close enough eye on our credit scores and frankly probably don’t understand them. How your credit score is actually determined is [...]
Autoinsurance-4u.com
In our daily quest to limit the amount that we pay for different things, auto insurance comes up quite a bit. Most of us are able to abide by the driving standards set forth by our local governments and feel that the high prices of many car insurance companies are on the verge of [...]
Emergency Funds are NOT Investments
At this time last year; we were all enjoying money market returns nearing 5 percent. Many were not only parking their money in these liquid funds for emergency cash, but using them as active investments. Unfortunately, one of the downsides of the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate cuts is the declining returns [...]
Car Insurance - Is Liability Only Coverage like Living on the Edge?
I was late for work today, I can’t blame it on my alarm or on traffic, but on a thief because…
…my car was stolen!
Can you believe that? One minute I had a reliable car – albeit, not as easy on the eyes as it used to be, but it never let us down! I can’t describe the [...]
