Here's a question every homeowner should ask: "What are the best ways to build home equity?" Americans continue to see real estate, and building home equity, as the best long-term investment, but not everyone understands the best ways to build home equity. Annual Gallup polls show that real estate, or building home equity, continues to beat out [...]
You may think a house fire will never happen to you. But what if it does? Are you prepared? Figuring out what to do after a home fire can be a very stressful and overwhelming process, and it can be hard to decide what to do first. With a little help from your insurance agent, [...]
With the rollout of the new health insurance exchanges, there’s a good chance that a few health insurance scams will also be rolled out to unsuspecting consumers. Don’t be duped. Here are a few of the most common scams: 1. Fake health insurance plans. High-pressured salespeople may insist that you join a “union” or “association” [...]
There are many tools you can use to make an investment in yourself and your future, including buying stocks and opening your own business. But not every decision you make will be good for you, and it’s important to learn from your—and others’—mistakes. Once you make a bad investment, hopefully you won’t make the same [...]
Planning for the future before you buy a home can be challenging, especially if you’re a first-time homebuyer in your late 20s or early 30s. Looking for a home in a good school district with multiple bedrooms may seem premature, especially if you’re single, but thinking ahead could pay off down the road. After all, [...]
Sheri Koones, Miki Cook, Carl Seville and Marcus de la Fleur joined Ilyce to discuss how green building can be sustainable for the Earth and your pocket book on the Ilyce Glink Show on April 20, 2014 on WSB Radio. Ilyce's show always contains various forms of personal finance advice but she invited four engaged and intelligent professionals to [...]
On this week’s show, I had four experts join me to discuss how green building can be sustainable for the Earth and affordable for you. Green building has become deeply associated with high costs. So experts, Sheri Koones, Miki Cook, Carl Seville and Marcus de la Fleur explain why it becomes so expensive and strategies [...]
What home feature do buyers desire the most? A laundry room. Although laundry is decidedly not an exciting chore, having a laundry room is a home feature buyers desire. They consider it the home feature buyers desirable the most, according to a recent survey from the National Association of Home Builders. Ninety-three percent of buyers [...]
According to Fraud.org, a project of the National Consumers League, 26 percent of scam victims are aged 55 and older. Lonely or unprotected retirees are easy targets for fraudsters, who often prey on retirees’ need for companionship or cash. “They can be desperate for company, money, or stability, and when people are desperate in any [...]
By the time spring rolls around, many of us have given up on our New Year’s resolutions—but it doesn’t have to be that way. Instead of waiting until next January to get on track, make it a point to renew your resolutions right now. Here’s how: 1. Get rid of the New Year’s resolution mindset. [...]
