Month: April 2016

Celebrate graduation with safety in mind. Most teens see graduation as the end of adolescence and the beginning of their next phase of life: a rite of passage into adulthood. It is a time for celebration, but both parents and graduates should consider ways to keep the celebration safe.     Crime Stoppers of Houston offers tips …

For graduates and their families: Celebrate safely Read More »

It’s not rocket science to know that having money saved for a rainy day is smart. We love to encourage people to build an emergency savings fund to prepare for the unexpected. As The Atlantic recently featured, the reality for many people is that saving hundreds or thousands of dollars is a struggle. Expensive calamities …

How to Pay for Car Repairs If You Don’t Have an Emergency Fund Read More »

Highway safety experts blame inattentive – or distracted – driving for 80 percent of all car accidents. So with just a few seconds of additional awareness of the road around us, we could potentially eliminate around 80 percent of crashes. How can just a few seconds make a difference? Consider the distance traveled by a …

Distracted driving: What could possibly happen? Read More »

As a millennial, I am often lectured to about the importance of saving for retirement strategies. I’m often told horror stories about people heading into retirement with little or no savings, who subsist on canned cat food and dry beans. It sounds like Chicken Little, yelling, “The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” But, these …

How Millennials Can Retire With $1 Million Read More »

For years, my student loan debt freaked me out. My wife and I collectively had about $100,000 in student loan debt, the majority being mine at over $75,000. It’s not that I thought about it constantly (though it rarely left my mind) or that I had collectors pounding on my door (we paid our bills …

Fighting & Winning the Student Loan Debt Battle: How My Wife and I Paid Off $100,000 Read More »

When you rent space for your business, check the coverage limitations in your insurance policy. When leasing a building for your business, you have an obligation as a tenant to compensate the building owner for damage caused by your operations. It pays to be familiar with your insurance policy to assure that you have no …

Damage to premises rented to you coverage: tenants beware Read More »