Hurricanes And Finance Are your personal and family finances in order and ready to go for the 2006 Atlantic tropical hurricane season? Are you ready to go for a mandatory evacuation and realize that your home may be destroyed and you may not even come back for four to six weeks to look at it because the power is out and FEMA will not want you back in the area?Have you consider what you will do or how you will ...

Deal Or No Deal – Who’s Your Banker? Copyright 2006 Andy Warren You may have seen or heard of the hugely successful worldwide show, Deal or No Deal If you haven’t, the premise is quite simple In the UK version there are 22 sealed boxes each containing a cash value of between 1 penny and £250,000 No one knows what each one contains The contestant chooses one of the 22 sealed boxes to hold and then opens all the other boxes ...

Asset Protection Strategies The best way to protect your assets and earnings is to follow the best asset protection strategies These act as the walls between your assets and overzealous government officials and creditors It is too late if you act to protect your assets after a claim or suit is filed Therefore, it is better to consider a well-structured asset protection strategy in advance Good strategy results in sufficient tax reductions that ultimately increase your savings Asset protection strategies ...

Travel Pet Insurance Recent changes to the UK’s quarantine laws mean that it is now possible for you to obtain a pet passport (under the government’s ‘passport for pets’ scheme) and take your family pet away with you on holiday However, before you run off down to your local travel agent and book tickets for the whole family to that exotic seaside tropical location you have always wanted to visit but have to put off because everyone else at home ...

Disposable Income Figures Show Gap Narrowing The research from KBD has also revealed the full extent of the north-south financial divide Taking the UK as a whole, the typical household has some £40,000 of disposable wealth, but this figure oscillates wildly depending on where you look – and indeed where you live An average London family will possess £81,732 in readily-accessible cash, while the Midlands sees this figure reduced to £31,939 and Scots find themselves cut somewhat adrift with a typical £29,724 ...

Set A Family Budget That Includes Coupons When your family sits down to set a family budget you might not be considering the value that coupons and rebates hold Those little slips of paper you clip out of the newspaper and magazine can add up to big savingsThe practice of cutting coupons is decades old People get their scissors ready and flip through newspaper inserts and magazines cutting out coupons that help them save money on a favored product While ...

Selling Your Home If you are in the market of purchasing or selling a home, it is likely that you will come across many different documents of a wide variety, each of these will likely have different uses, functions, and names associated with it When selling or buying a home two documents that are misunderstood the most are called quit claim deed and warranty deed People tend to believe that both forms are exactly alike, well I am here to ...

The Insurance Agent’s Guide To Success The successful insurance agent always stays informed on how he or she can improve themselves both personally and professionally In these days of fast paced lifestyles and the quickly disappearing face-to-face communication styles of doing business, the professional has to adapt First, your personal good health is an important component to the success of your business Second, I’ll present some proven business and customer satisfaction strategies that will guarantee you a thriving business and ...

Do You Have An Education Fund Green Thumb? Or is your growing college fund killing your financial aid?The more you save for college, the less chance you have at financial aid This irony has created the urban legend that you will be better off if you don’t save and rack up debt, so the government will pay for your child’s education As a responsible parent, or a loving grandparent, you want to save for the education of your future collegian ...

Setting Household Budget Priorities If you are going to set up a household budget, you're going to need to prioritize your spending You simply cannot buy everything you want You have to purchase the things you really need firstSo, how do you separate your "wants" and "needs" so your household budget will be successful?To set up a household budget you will need to do three activities:- List your income - List your expenses - Set priorities and make changes so ...