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New Free Report: Avoiding Probate

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:41:03 -0600

Some day, we will all pass on. If you take care of a few simpe matters now, when that sad day happens, your family can have hundreds of things less to worry about. As a public service ScanSafeData has sponsored a free report that outlines 6 simple steps to protect your family and avoid probate. You can download the report for free at:www.AvoidingProbate.info

Case Study: We could have saved $25,000.

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:36:58 -0600

"I wish I had know about the plots and insurance when Mom and Dad were killed in an automobile accident last year. Unfortunately I didn't. They never told me, or if they did I had forgotten. In any case my brothers and sisters and I had to come up with the $25,000 plus for the funerals and to buy new plots. And now I've got to figure out what to do with 2 burial plots that are half way accross ...

Case Study: They must be kidding.

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:30:23 -0600

"I don't know about anybody else, but I have no clue where all my old health information is. I don't have it and I don't know where to get it. But now I know how important it is to keep it. I guess I'll start with my current doctor and see how far I get. I just hope I can find it in time to go on this vacation. It's supposed to be the trip of a lifetime and I don't want to miss it just because ...

Case Study: I wish that I had flood insurance.

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:28:07 -0600

"I got started doing genealogy about six years ago. I have enjoyed it tremendously. I compiled hundreds of pages of information including family historys, four generation worksheets and copies of journals and diaries. I had it all stacked neatly in piles on the floor of my home office. And then it happened. I hadn't been downstairs in the basement for about three days when I started to smell a ...

Case Study: My fireproof safe wasn't safe after all.

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:26:53 -0600

"One night my wife and I went out to a movie. While we were gone somebody broke into our house and stole a buch of our stuff. They took a little flat screen TV. They took our Wii, some video games and a bunch of DVDs. They took my wife's jewelry box out of her dresser drawer, and they took our fireproof safe."I never thought about it before, but I quess that if somebody is going to take your st...

Identity theft hits record high!

ScanSafeData Staff — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:21:19 -0600

Identity theft is up by 22% over last year. Those most often attacked may surprise you.Staggering new information is being released by the FTC as well as nationally recognized research and analysis groups like Javelin Strategy and Research as well as respected periodicals like The Wall Street Journal.According to experts, women are more likely to be targeted than men and typically learn of thei...

Case Study: I didn't get the loan, but I got some good advice.

ScanSafeData Staff — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:27:21 -0600

"For the loan to be approved they needed to run a credit check and have copies of my last three years federal income tax returns. To make a long story short, I had no idea where they were. I knew where last year's was, but the ones from the two and three years ago must have either been thrown out, lost or put away somewhere so safe even I can't find them. I've looked high and low with no luck.W...

A higher credit score means lower interest rates.

ScanSafeData Staff — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:24:11 -0600

The importance of a high credit score can be easily recognized in the low interest rates paid by qualified borrowers. The assumption is simple. If a person has a higher credit score then they have proven that the risk associated with lending to them is lower. If the risk is lower, it results in access to greater amounts of funds and lower interest rates paid because the lender believes there wi...