Hurricane Harvey: Help your family prepare for this natural disaster
Help your family prepare for a natural disaster. Hurricanes How to prepare: Learn your community’s evacuation routes and nearest evacuation shelters. Make plans for special assistance for the elderly, disabled, and pets. Learn about emergency plans for your children’s school or daycare center. Meet with household members and discuss how to respond to a pending […]
Dining Rooms- Be Creative Be cute Be Yourself
From Holiday to Everyday: The Year-Round Dining Room Formal dining rooms are perfect during the busy holiday season. But what about the rest of the year? If you’re unsure what to do with your unused space between celebrations, consider going with a multi-purpose update. Here are a few upgrades that will help your dining room […]
How to Move Your Grandfather Clock
How to Pack my Grandfather Clock for Moving. Follow these easy steps and you are on your way to moving your Grandfather clock.Always start with the weights down about 3 – 4 days of the move.You will need gloves, scissors, newspaper, painters tape, packing tape, a large blanket and about 40 minutes. 1. Open the […]
Moving Tips For Downsizing- Seniors
By Self Storage: Moving Tips, Tricks and Secrets! Moving is a big job, but when you’re a senior and you’re moving from the home you’ve raised your family in to something smaller, you have some specific considerations you have to make. You can take measures to reduce the stress of the days ahead. Here’s a […]
Determining the Time Your Move Will Take
We would like to look into a crystal ball and find out exactly how long our move will take? This is true, every time you move, there are several factors that determine the total time it takes to complete your move. How long would it take? These moving factors can help you come up with a pretty […]
Tax filing season is here!
Many taxpayers are anxiously awaiting this year’s tax refund that they hope to use to pay down debt, pad their savings or make a big purchase. Historically, almost three-quarters of Americans receive a refund, which has averaged just under $3,000, a big sum for many families. This year, the Internal Revenue Service expects most refunds to be issued in […]
Moving In Texas? The lowest price may not be the best deal.
By law, Texas movers must be licensed with the TxDMV. If you hire one that isn’t, you risk losing your belongings.If you plan to hire a mover within Texas, Local Movings has some valuable information for you. Whether you are moving across town or across the state, we want you to know that the lowest […]
Small Business Tax Returns in 2019. Here’s What You Should Know.
By Jennifer Dunn Mark these deadlines As a small business owner, it can feel like tax deadlines constantly sneak up. Quarterly estimated taxes? Sending 1099s to contractors? Income tax day? It can be all too easy for busy business owners to overlook the tax calendar, missing a due date and facing a penalty. “We’re here to […]
Frustrated military families with the moving process and Privatization!
By: Karen Jowers Officials must get the process right so that the household goods program doesn’t “end up where we are with the housing situation,” said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C. Don’t make the same mistakes with privatizing the management of household goodsmoves that DoD did with privatized military housing. And listen to military families, senators cautioned the commander […]
Keep your hands off borrowing from your 401(k)!
By Joyce Walsack Ask most financial advisors about borrowing from your 401(k), and their response will be brief and blunt: “Don’t do it.” Those three words sum up the prevailing sentiment on the subject. Still, the dire warnings don’t scare everyone from tapping into their nest egg. According to Forbes, roughly 40 percent of individuals with a […]