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Sound financial tips during COVID-19 uncertainty

Our financial tips during COVID-19 pandemic may help to ease your anxiety

(BPT) – The current COVID-19 financial landscape is unpredictable, causing anxiety for people of all ages. These sound financial tips during COVID-19 may ease your anxiety.

“Now more than ever is the time to take an active approach with your finances to position yourself for success,” says Danielle Seurkamp, CFP. “Knowledge…

Best WordPress Hosting

A Review of the Top 4 Websites That Offer the Best WordPress Hosting

It’s hard to imagine that anyone today hasn’t heard about WordPress. It truly is one of the easiest ways to build a website for any type of industry. Our review will discuss four (4) web hosting firms to determine who offers the best WordPress hosting.

Anyone who has or intends to build a website will need to setup web hosting.…

5 Free Tax Return Filing Tips Make Tax Filing a Breeze

5 Free Tax Return Filing Tips to Simplify Filing Your Taxes

It’s a known and unfortunate fact that most individuals aren’t too efficient when it relates to tax return filing. We offer these free online tax preparation tips to help those who are disorganized and/or unprepared. Many are stressed out because they are not organized and it doesn’t have to be that way.

A checklist can be a big help in…

How to File Your Taxes Online for Fast Refunds

How to File Your Taxes Online Faster with These Tips

There are many reasons to look for tax filing help, especially if you’re not sure how to file your taxes online. Many individuals feel that the tax laws are very complicated, and they’re simply not comfortable in filing their own tax returns.

For these individuals, tax filing help can come from a couple of sources. One option is going to a tax…

5 Retirement Questions to Ask

5 retirement questions to ask before ‘How much should I save?’

(BPT) – How do I plan for a comfortable retirement? This question is top of mind for many Americans. Yet how to afford that dream retirement remains a mystery to most. According to The Employee Benefit Research Institute’s 2019 Retirement Confidence Survey, only 42% of working-age people have tried to calculate just how much they need…

Stepped-Up Cost Basis Rule Can Reduce Your Taxes

Stepped-Up Cost Basis – Very Important Tax Benefit

Practically all married couples have their home and other assets titled jointly with a right of survivorship. What that means is that when one spouse passes away, their ownership of the home or other asset passes on to the surviving spouse. This triggers a tax benefit called stepped-up cost basis.

This arrangement works very well for married…

9 Tips on How to Create a Financial Plan Yourself

Creating a Financial Plan Yourself Isn’t Difficult

You don’t have to spend a lot of money to learn how to create a personal financial plan. Our tips will show how to do it for free.

A 2019 survey by a respected financial firm, revealed some interesting statistics. The survey pointed out that about 75% of individuals who had a financial plan in place paid their bills on time.

In contrast, about…

The Good, Bad, and Ugly of an Interest Only Mortgage

An interest only mortgage can appear to be a very attractive offer at the onset. However, it can also be a disaster waiting to happen for many borrowers who don’t completely understand what awaits them five or ten years down the road.

About ten or twelve years ago, a period known as the Great Recession caused havoc for many homeowners. One of…

5 Ways To Manage Your Money Better

5 Ways to Manage Your Money Better & Take Charge of Your Finances

Do you put off making changes to better manage your money? If you have financial fears, does the prospect of financial planning seem next to impossible? If so, you’re not alone. Almost one half of Americans find this scary, and it doesn’t have to be.

There’s no need to postpone a much-needed review of your financial situation any…

Free Tax Filing Online

The Ultimate Guide to Free Tax Filing Online

Do you still take your tax records to a CPA or other tax professional for a simple return? Each year, millions of taxpayers are taking advantage of free tax filing online at one of the online tax filing firms.

Cost and convenience are the two major reasons for this change. Having a tax professional prepare even a simple return without itemizing, can…

4 Options to Consider if You Need Student Loan Help

If you’re struggling to make the payments on your student loans, and you need student loan help, you’re not alone. When the 2017 college class graduated, the average amount of student loans each one carried was in excess of $39,000. College costs are increasing every year forcing studentsto borrow more. This only adds more to the total…

First Time Home Buyer Mistakes

5 Mistakes First Time Home Buyers Make

Do you think you’re ready to buy your first home? Do you understand what you need to do before you can assume the role of a homeowner? If not, you’re not alone. Many first time home buyers make mistakes because they simply don’t know.

There are a lot of things to consider, such as location if there is a particular school district that you want your children…

Get A VA Mortgage

What You Need to Know to Get a VA Mortgage

If you’re a military veteran, you’ll be glad to know that the Department of Veterans Affairs has a program to help you buy a home. This program, known as VA loans, makes it much easier for a veteran to get a VA mortgage through a private lender. The VA does not make loans directly and instead, guarantees home loans for veterans.

One advantage of a VA…