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Tips to Avoid Thanksgiving Day Home Cooking Fires

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Avoid Thanksgiving Day Home Cooking Fires with These Tips When it comes to home insurance claims, the two biggest hazards are fire and water. So, Thanksgiving is a big “hold your breath” moment of the insurance industry because the holiday produces a bunch of home cooking fires. In fact, according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Thanksgiving ranks as the leading day for...

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Tips to Choosing Your First Motorcycle

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Tips for Choosing Your First Motorcycle There is absolutely no single motorcycle that is perfect for everyone. That’s as true for veteran riders as beginners. Heck, there are so many brands, types, styles, and sizes – it’s simply difficult to choose. Honestly, it’s much easier to help you know if you need to buy motorcycle insurance. But if you’re in the market to buy your first...

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The Starter Classic Car Guide: Finding Your First Vintage Ride

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The Starter Classic Car Guide: Finding Your First Vintage Ride You never forget your first starter classic car. Mine came courtesy of weekends spent with my father, learning how to resurrect forgotten engines and breathe life back into neglected chrome. But what if you weren’t lucky enough to have your own automotive mentor? How do you navigate the labyrinth of classic car ownership...

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Should I Pay Off My Mortgage Early?

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Should I Pay off My Mortgage Early? If you’re a homeowner with a mortgage you’ve wondered from time-to-time just what it would be like if you just didn’t have a monthly mortgage payment. You may be asking yourself right now, should I pay off my mortgage? Oh, what you could do with the monthly savings. Maybe to buy better home insurance? 😊 It’s an interesting question, because for most...

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Four Tips to Help You Buy the Best Car Insurance

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Four Tips to Help Buy the Best Car Insurance Policy There are so many ways to buy car insurance, it can make sorting through all the choices to find the best car insurance policy for you and your family challenging. With each new television commercial, and there are a ton of them, insurance carriers claim to offer the best value. But what is “value?”This is difficult to...

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Things to Consider Before You Buy an Electric Car

Written by Scott Boren on . Posted in Personal Finance.

Five Considerations Before You Buy an Electric Car Electric cars have become extremely fashionable. If you’re considering buying a new car, you’re likely wondering if you should buy an electric car. I was in your shoes a year ago, and I happily became an electric car owner. In my humble opinion, there are good reasons to go electric. It’s always good to do some research...

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Ten Tips to Safe Group Motorcycle Riding

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Ten Tips to Safe Group Motorcycle Riding Like surfing or rock climbing, riding a motorcycle is an experience that can’t be simulated or replicated. It leads thousands out to the canyons and winding roads each weekend for a small dose of throttle therapy and good times. For many of us, we subscribe to the philosophy that, “no road is too long if you have good company.” Making group motorcycle...

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Boating Safety Tips That Actually Matter (Not Just for Rule Followers)

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Boating Safety Tips That Matter (Even More Than Looking Cool) Boating safety tips won’t make you Instagram famous. They won’t get you a date. And they certainly won’t make you the life of the floating party. But here’s the truth that 310,000 new powerboat owners are about to learn the hard way: the water doesn’t care about your social media strategy. It’s your...

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Working From Home with Children

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Working from Home with Children During the pandemic, many of us were asked to work from home, and that came with new challenges. The least of which was how to set up our home office. Now, working from home is much more common, but we’re still learning how to be productive from home. Especially for those working from home with children. For working parents of school-age children, working...

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Auto Insurance Terms Symplified

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Seven Confusing Auto Insurance Terms Simplified Your auto insurance is a contract and like other contracts is can be confusing to read. It gets more complicated when you consider some of the other confusing auto insurance terms or jargon. Frankly, while some of the terms may seem “lawyerly” or even like reading a foreign language, they do not have to be. In the end, you just want to break...

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