Frozen Pipes

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Don’t Let the Cold Get to Your Pipes This Winter It’s hard to think of a worse start to a winter day than turning on the faucet and … nothing. Maybe there’s a trickle of water, but it’s clear you…

Food Safety Tips-Power Outage

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Power Outages and Food Safety: Toss it or Keep it? It seems like the power always goes out when it’s either way too hot or way too cold – talk about inconvenient. Also inconvenient? Not knowing whether your food is…

Heat Efficiency

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How Efficiently (or Inefficiently) Do You Use Your Heat? Many homeowners see their energy bills each winter and think, “How can I be spending this much when the house isn’t even that warm?” To get an answer to that question,…

Car Accidents in Winter

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How to Stay Safe After a Winter Car Accident The days are short. The air is cold. And, roads are often slick with rain, snow or ice. It’s winter driving season and, while most people know what to do to…

Secure Your Business: 5 Easy Steps

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Directions: Management should ask their IT department to review the minimum-security standards highlighted below and report back on any security vulnerabilities that could be implemented across the entire organization. 1. Secure Ransomware ThreatRansomware’s biggest threat to your organization is destroyingessential…

Cyber Update

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Ransomware Largest Driver of Cyber Insurance Claims in the Last Five YearsRansomware represented the number one cause of loss in a study of almost 6,000 cyber insurance claims, with the average ransom rising to $247,000 and the average incident cost…

5 Rules Every Landlord Should Live By

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I’m pretty confident that if you asked anyone who has ever owned a rental property you would get an overwhelming response that it’s not as lucrative or easy as they thought it would be. In fact, owning a rental property…

Will my credit rating change my insurance rates?

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I was recently asked this question by one of our WAFD Insurance Group, Inc. clients, and thought I would share the answer here for our readers. There are a lot of things that go into homeowners and auto insurance rates, one…

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