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The People’s Lawyer’s Tip of the Day
Be careful when you use a post-dated check. Under the law, your bank may pay that check at any time, and you may bounce many other checks. My advice is never give someone a post-dated check.
Selling Your Home in a Bad Market
The real estate market is in the dumps, so if you really want to sell, you should consider some uncommon measures to make your home attractive to buyers. Click here for more.
Energy Savings and Potential Income Tax Savings Alert!
By making energy efficient choices, you can save energy costs, improve the environment and possibly reduce your federal taxes. You may be able to claim tax credits on your 2007 income tax return for energy efficiency improvements you made to your home in 2007. Click here for more.
Job Tips You Didn't Get In College
The business world is another animal entirely. Politically motivated and fraught with nonsensical change, it's not a natural fit for ambitious graduates who leave school expecting results from a logical combination of education and effort. Suddenly, the tenets of success we've followed since kindergarten don't apply, because getting ahead in the business world often has nothing to do with intelligence or exceeding a set of defined expectations. Since they don't teach corporate in college, here are six tips to help you win at the business world's game. Click here for more.
Making Your Money Real
We live in an age where you may rarely see your money. Paychecks get directly deposited to checking accounts where automated bill pay functions whisk large chunks of it away to pay bills in faraway states. You use a piece of plastic for paying gas and another for shopping at the mall. You use a debit card for groceries and receive an alert on your phone when your funds are getting low, but it's just all numbers flickering on a monitor. The concept of money is even disappearing from our language. We talk about account balances instead of how much money we have. Under these circumstances, it's easy to lose your connection with money. Click here for more.
Your Money
What option is best for estate planning? Click here for more.
For the Lawyers
Court strikes down ordinance banning "for sale" sign in car. The 6th Circuit has struck down a municipal ordinance against placing a motor vehicle in a public street and advertising it for sale as an unconstitutional restraint on commercial speech. Click here for more.