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Ten years ago you hired a person. Now you often hire a dispatcher who hires a person. Here is how to sort the upkeep jobs worth paying for, and who you are really paying.
Continue reading Paying Someone to Clean the Gutters? Find Out Who Is Actually Coming First
Utilities and big landlords handle overhanging limbs and disputed lines hundreds of times a year. The habits that make that work are mostly free to copy.
Continue reading Your Neighbor's Tree, Your Roof. The File a Utility Opens Before It Touches a Limb
Three ways to end a disagreement over a modest amount, costed properly. The one people dismiss out of hand is sometimes the correct answer.
Continue reading Small Claims, Mediation, or Writing It Off: Three Endings Priced Honestly
The first week of funeral arranging has a real sequence, and the memorial decision sits later in it than most families are led to believe.
Continue reading Arranging a Funeral This Week? The Order the Decisions Actually Have to Happen In
The most expensive fraud a household is likely to meet arrives as a routine message from somebody they have been corresponding with for weeks.
Continue reading The Message That Changes the Wiring Instructions: Why It Arrives on Closing Day
A funeral bill is a stack of separate decisions, not one price. Here is how to tell the required line from the four that are yours to accept or refuse.
Continue reading Reading a Funeral Bill Line by Line, and Which Five Lines You Can Actually Decline