Concerned about winter storm damage to your home or car?   With blizzard conditions hitting a large swath of the Northeast, car crashes and damage to property is likely to occur, according to the Insurance Information Institute (III). “Standard homeowners policies provide coverage for damage caused by wind, snow, severe cold and freezing rain,” said

Are You At Risk For Tax-Related Identity Theft? Tax-related identity theft is when someone uses your Social Security number to file a fraudulent tax return and claim a refund. This kind of theft usually occurs early in the filing season – because the scammers want to get their fake return in before you get your

Moving Motivations: What Would Make Americans Consider Uprooting? Fabulous article thanks to Harris poll and RISMedia Family holding cardboard boxes and moving into a new house. A recent Harris Poll found Florida, California and Hawaii to be the states where Americans would most like to live (excluding where they live now), followed by Colorado and

Is There a Downside to Prepaying Your Mortgage? Long before you settle on a mortgage lender, one of your interview questions should be, “Is there a prepayment penalty and if so, how much is it?” Unfortunately, too many homebuyers don’t understand what a prepayment penalty is, how it works, or even if they are paying