Recent content by AstoSoup

Thank you so much for the info! Honestly, I am lost here and no one around my area will even speak to me about it unless I am paying them. I have studied the small estate link, I am a little unsure on the value part, the house is assessed at $89,000 full market by the taxation dept. but is NOT...

I just recently paid the school taxes (part of where my savings went), property taxes are paid to date and I imagine I will receive another bill in January. At that time, I should be financially able to pay them without issue.

Thank you! Will be looking into this today as well. Just want to make sure I am ok until things go back to normal. I am not familiar with any of this and not used to any of this. I have been working since I was 14 and have rented a home for the past 7 years. I moved back here to help my mom, did...

Additionally, are there any lending companies such as J.G Wentworth that would give me a loan against the lump sum? Currently I have to get my own car insurance policy, my cell phone is due, my furnace is broken and I have no fuel, my son needs school clothes, he also has a birthday coming...

Thank you for that information, clears up a lot with the SS and the life insurance/death benefits. The house was one of my other worries, I could not find the deed to it and being my mother was in the hospital and very ill, could not locate it or go to the county for another one. What should I...

I am 34 years old and live in upstate NY. My mom worked for the school district for many years, putting away for retirement the whole time. This past July, at 61 years old, she was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. She was set to retire September 29th but once we got the diagnosis that she...