I need to ask my friend if she has plans in place since she and her family are in Florida through Monday. She’s in Lakeview and had to get cars up in the front yard, almost to the front door, to avoid last round of flooding.

If I thought I could pull off my longer beard with a short haircut I would do it since the crown is starting to thin out and it looks horrible when the wind blows, but I feel like in professional settings my beard is already pushing it and I kinda need some length on top, even if balding in the middle, to balance it…

That has been my issue with smart bulbs - though it makes sense for renters who can take the bulb with them when they leave. If you own your home I would just buy smart switches so you can still hit a physical button when you walk in/out of a room, but you can still shut it off/on from anywhere also.

I cant help but read it in his voice... like without even trying it just happens.

called “Unite the Seven”—which could hint at the appearance of a seventh, unannounced member of the League dropping by for a cameo

First person I thought of when they said “older”

too many responses to see if anyone else said this, but in dragon breathing ice/fire:

Ah, thanks.

So I, who have impact windows and doors to withstand a hurricane, should not get a smartlock since breaking a window/kicking in my door is not an option for someone unless they have VERY heavy duty equipment?

Do we know their father remarried/had a significant other in Germany (or wherever else he was stationed). I just thought the author and his sister were raised by their single military father through high school.not saying you are wrong, just saying I didn’t catch that.

Very interesting insights I had never thought of but I never saw Birds in context of those other movies, only as a stand alone I catch on TV every once in a while. The other monster movies you reference I have never seen (outside of Godzilla) exactly because they seem stupid (as a child of the 80s/90s I just cant get…

So I went looking and apparently you cannot make in-kind transfers to IRAs, has to be cash. So now I will think about which investments, if any, can be liquidated with minimal tax impact to create cash to contribute.

A Trust allows you to control the assets beyond your death. A Will gives the property outright to the designated beneficiary at death (technically you can draft trust provisions into a Will so someone maintains control of the assets without giving them to the beneficiary immediately, but you have created a trust in…

So I have an investment account that my grandparents started for me when I was I kid and is not a retirement account in any way. Should I continue to hold these equities in this normal, tax-disadvantaged account or ask my advisor to transfer the max Roth contribution each year to a Roth IRA. I would think the…

I mean I guess it would depend on the state but in Florida even if you go the intestacy route it’s not going to the state if you don’t have a Will if you have any semblance of living family members.

Mid-30's, no spouse or kids, own my home. I write Wills for a living. Still haven’t done my own.

I think it’s important to note that many accounts/investment vehicles have beneficiary designations that take precedence over the Will. The beneficiary designation on your IRA controls who gets it, doesn’t matter if your Will said something else (unless your IRA says distribute to my estate at my death).

This is what trusts are for. And if you are talking about retirement account you would need to name the trust as beneficiary of the account after you die.

In Florida we have per se reasonable fees for services performed by attorney for PR or Trustee, but they are not mandatory and any client can say no and negotiate whatever fee they are comfortable with. I didn’t not know other states might make them mandatory.

I think the Mashable article on this said they will make back money selling movie attendance information to companies who can use that information for marketing purposes, or something to that effect (too lazy to go read it again).