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Understanding Credit Reports

Topic: Debt and Credit
Next Seminar: May 22, 2013, Puyallup Public Library

Learn how to use free credit reports to learn what's behind your credit rating, how to correct misinformation, and prevent fraud and identity theft.

First Time Homebuyer 101

Topic: Homeownership
Next Seminar: May 30, 2013, Northgate Neighborhood Financial Center

Become a well-informed home buyer. This seminar covers it all: How to prepare your credit, develop a budget, and apply for a mortgage, as well as presenting your offer, the appraisal and inspection, and other useful tips.

Better Budgeting

Topic: Budgeting
Next Seminar: Jun 10, 2013, Tukwila Financial Center

Do you want to fine tune your spending, reduce your debt or save more money? This seminar teaches principles, practices and skills of good money management that will make your financial life easier and help you reach your goals. Come and learn how to create your personalized spending plan.

Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Traps

Topic: Trusts, Wills, and Probate
Next Seminar: Jun 13, 2013, Tukwila Financial Center

“Tools, Tips, Tricks, and Traps” presented by Ryan Y. Rehberg and Mark A. Reinhardt, attorneys at Rehberg Law Group, P.S., is a great introduction for those without any planning and a refresher for those who haven’t updated their planning in a while for everyone. Filled with solid information and leavened with stories, anecdotes, and humor, this 90-minute seminar will review the goals of estate planning; the tools of estate planning (including a comparison of Wills vs. Living Trusts), ways to protect your beneficiaries; and surveys how recent changes in the law (including federal estate tax laws and Washington State trust law) will affect your planning.

Securing Your Retirement-A Special Seminar on Social Security

Topic: Retirement Planning
Next Seminar: Jun 19, 2013, Everett Financial Center

Hosted by *Jaime Suarez, LPL Financial Advisor and BECU Everett Financial Center. Guest speaker: Michelle Gans, CFA, BlackRock. As you approach retirement, it is more important than ever to understand the role that Social Security benefits can and should play in your overall retirement income plan. Join us with a masterful overview of: 1. How Social Security benefits work for you and your spouse 2. When and how to start receiving Social Security benefits 3. Opportunities to increase your benefits throughout retirement.

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