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Ted Jenkin named as a Top 10 Advisor
Ted Jenkin named as a Top 10 Advisor from the just released Investopedia 100 Top Financial Advisors of 2019! (click to read full article)
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Do this with your 401(k) as the market tanks
There’s one market correlation you can count on: When the markets plummet, calls to 401(k) plan providers go up. If you’re like a lot of people, you’re also reaching for the phone — or just looking...
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Green Eggs and Van
When my son was a small child, he loved when I would read him Dr. Seuss books. Stories like ‘Oh the Things you can Think’, or ‘To think I saw it on Mulberry Street’ were some of his favorites....
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Why I Kicked My College Graduate Out of the House
When my oldest child was about to graduate from college earlier this year, I made a strategic decision: We were going to kick her out of the house and get her living on her own. Do you think I am a...
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Is it Time to Dodge the Draft?
No, you are not going to have to avoid a Government draft. But with winter coming, you might want to do somethings about that drafty house. Some simple inexpensive projects could save you up to 18%...
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Wedding Bliss On A Budget
When thinking about what topic to write on for my blog post this week, I decided to write about something that I personally learned a lot about this year: weddings. My husband & I got married in...
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Buying a House Might Not be a Great Investment
For most of us, owning a home will be the biggest investment you have. But is it really a good investment, or is it just a place to lay our heads at night? You have to live somewhere, and as I like...
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Five Important Money Questions To Ask Your Parents
Almost ten years ago, I wrote an original article about important money questions to ask your parents. As family units become more complex and brothers and sisters get stretched out across America,...
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Why This Tech Bubble Isn’t Like The Last Tech Bubble
It has been 18 years since the ‘dot-com’ bubble happened in 2000, and many people are wondering when Ctrl + Alt + Delete button might get clicked again in their portfolio. As the NASDAQ gently...
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What Insurance Moves Do I Make With Hurricane Florence?
With another major hurricane hitting the east cost over the past week, torrential downpour and flooding, and more than 1,000,000 without power, the questions will be coming soon on what to do...
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5 Things You Need To Know About The Bitcoin Before You Invest Your Money
It has become clear that the new gold rush people are talking about is the Bitcoin. The problem is that most people have no ideas what the Bitcoin is exactly, how it works, or the way that a...
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Five Things You Didn’t Know About The GOP Tax Bill
With the GOP Tax Bill on the verge of passing, President Trump has suggested that this 1.5 trillion-dollar tax cut will be a HUGE Christmas present for the entire United States of America. As with...
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Five Items To Buy After Christmas
When the Starbuck’s Christmas cups go away and your neighbors begin to take down their decorations, the last thing in the world you probably want to do is to be thinking about shopping considering...
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What Itemized Deductions Will Look Like In 2018
To itemize or not to itemize, that is the question? With all of the tax law changes recently passed by President Trump in the GOP tax bill, one of the considerations you’ll need to get your arms...
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5 2018 Sticky Financial New Year’s Resolutions
It’s 2018, and that means that most of you have made at least one New Year’s resolution. For most of you it will surround either diet or exercise, but for some of you getting your financial plan in...
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The Best 2018 Tax Moves To Make Now
As the new tax law goes into effect, many people are starting to wonder how this will affect their overall paychecks. You should see some bump in your paychecks when the new tax tables go into effect...
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Why Investors Can’t Measure Their Own Risk Tolerance
When people start investing money, one of the exercises they engage in is determining their own risk tolerance. Usually, this process is handled by filling out some sort of questionnaire that has...
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What’s Best? Buy, Lease, or Rent A Car
One of the day to day family financial decisions we have to make as adults is whether or not we should buy a car or lease a car. Over the past twelve months, there have also been options popping up...
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How To Use LinkedIn To Make More Money
Most of our articles strictly talk about personal finance, but I thought it would be cool to teach you about how to use the Social Media platform LinkedIn to help you make more money either with your...
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Five Ways To Save Money On Spring Break
With Spring Break right around the corner, families across America are thinking about vacations to staycations wondering how to fit this into their family budget. If you aren’t careful, Spring Break...
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Why Universal Basic Income Won’t Work
After I listened to this short clip on the Wall Street Journal’s website over the weekend, I felt compelled to write a short article around Universal Basic Income because I think it is a topic that...
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Last Minute Tax Moves Before You File
If filing your taxes are indicative to the way you studied for exams in college, it’s highly likely you’ll be scrambling to get your taxes done at the very last minute this year. When we wait until...
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Can You Retire On 1 Million Dollars?
One million dollars used to be the gold standard when it came to figuring out how much money you would need to never have to work the rest of your life. Now, we all know if you really put your mind...
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Should You Buy A Home Before Amazon Makes A Decision
Amazon will soon announce the winner of its HQ2 parade, with one city emerging victorious to get on the back of Jeff Bezos and ride him like Secretariat for the Triple Crown. There are all sorts of...
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Five Wedding Gift Ideas For The Modern Day Bride And Groom
Several years ago, I wrote a your smart money moves blog about what is the right amount to give for a wedding gift. According to CNBC, the average cash gift for a wedding across the United States is...
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When Is The Right Time To Refinance?
With the Fed recently raising interest rates, many people have started to wonder if they should act on the refinance now or wait to see what happens with interest rates. If you are buying a new home,...
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How To Settle Your Money Arguments At Home
Many families worry about their financial plan and whether or not they will run out of money. Some families are living paycheck to paycheck and trying to figure out a better way to budget their...
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Bad Credit Card Moves To Make
When the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was put into place, credit card holders were supposed to benefit from the new regulation. Consumers would receive new...
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Great 2018 Back To School Money Moves
For most people in Atlanta, it is back to school time this week for your children. For many of you across the country, it’s only a month to Labor Day and then everyone will be in full speed back to...
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The New Way To Pay For College Debt
If there isn’t enough pressure for kids to get into college today, the pressure is mounting on the pressure for kids to pay off their college debt. With student debt obligations now surpassing credit...
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