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No comments yet Mortgage Loans: Six Signs Your Low Rate is a Scam
A red hot housing market always brings tempting – but troublesome – mortgage offers. If we learned anything from the last crisis, well, rest assured, scammers learned even more. And they’re using the knowledge to try and trick us again. Here are some government-released guidelines about how to read the advertisements. A Low “Fixed” Rate may come with the key word “fixed.” But some of those deals end after an introductory period of 30 days. Know always when and how your rate will change. Very Low [ Read More ]
No comments yet Parents are Distracted when Driving
When it comes to distracted drivers, we’re quick to point fingers at the teens and drunks. But it’s actually parents who are searching the internet and applying lipstick while their kids are in the backseat, according to researchers from University of Michigan. They surveyed more than 600 parents to find whether they – while driving their kids – did activities such as phone calls, internet surfing, texting, eating, grooming, feeding their kids or changing a CD or a DVD. •Almost 90 percent of drivers said they’d been [ Read More ]
No comments yet Work-Life Balance: Seven Tricks to Having it All
As mothers, we worry about work-life balance, hoping we’ve spent enough time with our kids. Yet along the way we meet so many moms who navigate changes with endless grace.What do they know that we don’t? Cali Williams Yost — an expert on workplace flexibility and author of, “TWEAK IT” –actually studied these people. She found they focus on making deliberate but small adjustments in their routines so work and life fit together. And she calls them “tweaks.” “With the [ Read More ]
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The Home Economist Column is Syndicated
The Home Economist newspaper column – which has been running in The Miami Herald for over four years - was recently syndicated by the paper’s parent company, McClatchy. The stories first run in the Herald’s Saturday MONEY section and are then posted on the wire, where some of the countries leading papers can access and then publish the pieces. They’ve since appeared in The Kansas City Star, The Idaho Statesman, The Modesto Bee, The Olympian, The Lexington Herald Reader, The Bellingham [ Read More ]
Back to School – New (School) Year Resolutions
This year it’s all about productivity, organization and peanut butter. Why wait until January? I’ve created five ambitious and unrealistic expectaions for myself today. See? I’ve already stopped procrastinating! Here’s what’s left on the list: 1) Plan weekly menus and purchase all ingredients in advance to eliminate stressful sprints into supermarket while clock ticks until one daughter will be waiting and yes, perhaps momentarily stranded at dance class. Find ways to induce more productive fears of parental failure. Say by [ Read More ]
Affordable Care Act
If the thought of getting divorced or losing your job breaks your heart, well, toughen up. Cardiac conditions are expensive and President Barack Obama’s law may not be there to help. If America’s high court says President Barack Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act is unconstitutional, the whole thing comes crashing down. That means children with asthma will be denied coverage, women will often be charged 50 percent more than men, and if you thought it would break your heart to get divorced or lose your job, [ Read More ]
Background Check Your Financial Adviser (and her Advice)
Keep your money safe from investment scams. 1) Before even hearing about an investment opportunity it’s important first to learn about the person who will be handling the transaction. Research your broker on FINRA’s BrokerCheck website and find out about your investment adviser at the Investment Adviser Public Disclosure website. If you’re still confused call the SEC’s investor hotline at 800-732-0330. That’s why they’re around. 2) Important rule to know: all securities must be either registered with the SEC or exempt from being [ Read More ]
Married Woman’s Guide to Saving Money on Gas
And spending more on manicures…. Gas prices are high enough to make you wonder whether those numbers on the pump are instead calculating the price of your car payment. Nope, that’s your gasoline bill. But because some car trips are impossible to trim from your schedule – um, if the kids don’t get to school they’re home with you – the extra money you spend at the petrol station comes from your disposable income. That’s the money you have - ahem, had - leftover [ Read More ]
