Real Estate Investing in MA & NC

I'm writing this as a follow up to my earlier post about hurricane Bertha.  It got me thinking.  If we ever get another season with a few major storms like Katrina and Andrew making landfall in the US, who will end up footing the bill for all the damage? The answer may surprise you. Of course the...

Here we go again.  Bertha is churning in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and within just a few hours has now been classified as a Category 3 hurricane with maximum wind speeds of 115 mph.  This means that we have just entered the 2008 Hurricane Season!  Woohoo! Although the National Hurricane Ce...

Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual "Allstate America's Best Drivers Report™." The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an auto collision every 14.6 years. Compared to the national likelihood of a colli...

  Let’s face it, we live in an online world.  It seems like every other purchase we make nowadays takes place with a virtual vendor: Movies, music, computers, electronics, books, clothes, etc.  The list goes on and on. Obviously, the two main reasons people buy online are convenience and price.  ...

The "Allstate America's Teen Driving Hotspots" study found that interestingly, the markets scoring best in the study include some of the nation's largest cities. While these metro areas generally had more total fatal accidents than others - including the New York City area with a nation-leading 8...

The "Allstate America's Teen Driving Hotspots" study found that the 10 deadliest hotspots among the nation's 50 largest metro areas are concentrated in the southern United States and include three in Florida. According to the study, the metropolitan areas (a central city and its surrounding count...

I have a story to share.  About a year ago, one of my daughter's classmate's family was relocating from one house to another. Their new home wouldn't be ready to move into for three months after their old home closed.  Their plan was to rent an apartment for three months between homes. When they ...

My apologies ahead of time on this one.  I know that this is a real estate site, but my business is insurance.  So when a client comes to us for homeowner's insurance, they always ask us to quote their auto insurance, too.  The two are usually tied at the hip. So this is hot off the press, from t...

I just read this on the North Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles website and I thought I'd share.  All this means is that you can't wear any of those 'novelty' or military-style helmets without the thick inner lining. MOTORCYCLE SAFETY HELMET LAW Effective January 1, 2008 all operators and pas...

Basically, this means that the financial responsibility law will begin to get some teeth. VEHICLE INSURANCE COVERAGE LAPSES WILL COST MORE JULY 1 Wednesday, June 25, 2008 RALEIGH — Beginning Tuesday, July 1, the penalties charged to vehicle owners who habitually drop liability insurance coverage ...