Tag: Frisco independent insurance agents

In Home Child Care and Home Insurance

My mother in law has offered child care in her Mesquite home for 2 decades. It’s been a labor of love for her. She loves kids. It’s also been a source of income for her. Many of the kids she’s watched have grown up and are now parents themselves. The number of high school and college graduations she’s been invited to is astounding. The long term reward has not been the income, although that’s been helpful. Her reward is watching the children grow up and knowing she’s played a part in them becoming adults.

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Distracted Driving & Digital Billboards

Most weeks don’t pass without some article, news item or blog post on distracted driving. Most of these articles tend to focus on texting and driving. I’ve even written a couple of posts on texting and driving too. But let’s face it, there’s more to driving distracted than just texting. We can be distracted by a number of things including

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Car Insurance Lapse & It’s Impact

?I’ve had clients who’ve experienced a lapse in coverage on their car insurance policy. The reasons include job loss, an unexpected expense like a car repair, forgetting about a bill, juggling the outflow with the income, and even a medical problem. Most recently I had a Dallas client who experienced a stroke…

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Identity Fraud Coverage

Last fall, I received an email from the security department of my bank notifying me there’d been a questionable charge on my debit card. I first thought it was a phishing email so I called the security department of my bank to find out it wasn’t a false email. A charge for $4.58 had been made on my account at a New York sporting goods store. Not having traveled from Dallas to New York recently, I worked with the security department to identify my legitimate charges & payments and refute the ones that weren’t mine. We then shut down that debit card and they mailed me a new one.

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Sweetheart Deals For Home & Car Insurance

?My personal home and car insurance renews in March. Every February I receive several letters from other Dallas area agents offering to save me money on my car and home insurance. None of them know I’m an independent agent. The savings they offer are tantalizing. There’s only one small catch: none of the offers I’ve ever received were real.

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Car Insurance Discounts For Your College Student

Have a son or daughter in college? If so, then you probably feel like someone took an axe to your wallet and money’s draining out faster than you can put it in. Most parents of college students are looking for any kind of savings they can get when one of their kids goes to school.

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Two ways to insure your home office

?While most people still drive to an office each day to work, there’s been an explosion in the number of people working from home over the last two decades. This was made possible by inexpensive computers and the availability of high speed internet access. What used to be the norm for realtors and traveling sales people has become typical for …

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Exotic pets & home insurance

Say the word pet and most people think dog, cat, hamster, gerbil, fish, or bird. Some will think of turtles, lizards, or sugar gliders. In Texas, we may even think in terms of horses. Other people think in terms of more exotic animals such as …

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Swimming pools, trampolines & home insurance

Every week we talk with people about home insurance. Two of the people I talked with last week included a young couple buying their first home in Fort Worth, the other was a long time homeowner in Frisco, Texas who was concerned they were paying too much for home insurance. The conversations about the homes were not that much different and focus on two broad areas…

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