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Links to other sites

 

Estate and Financial Planning

 

IRS tax forms

www.aarp.org Web site of AARP with many good articles

www.scottburns.com/ Scott Burns financial planning site

www.laweasy.com Site of attorney Martin Shenkman, with great articles and some general forms

www.savingforcollege.com/learn/faq.php Excellent website with everything you want to know about 529 college savings plan

www.EstateManual.com. Electronic organizer for clients.

www.revocable-living-trust.net Good general information on living trusts.

 

 

 

To research home values

http://realestate.yahoo.com/realestate/homevalues Yahoo website to check home value

www.homegain.com Not a bad site, but the suggested home values have a wide range

www.chicagotribune.com/classified/realestate/transactions/ Check the values of home sold in the last year 

 

Elder law

 

www.elderlawanswers.com A good source of information about elder law

www.immediateannuities.com/content_pages/HCFA_life_expectancy_tables.htm

Tables used to calculate life expectancy for use in deciding the term of a medicaid annuity

www.state.il.us/dpa/html/nursing_homes.htm How to apply for medicaid

www.carescout.com/site_index.htm Nursing home and home health care ratings and other valuable information

 

 

Personal sites

www.jeffgalloway.com A good website by the popular writer on running

www.ofoto.com A nice web site for sharing photos or ordering prints

www.rootscellar.com Sign up for Paul Root's e-mail newsletter if you like wine (either drinking it  or reading about it)

www.pbase.com Photo sharing web site. Check this nice site out for an example of how to display some beautiful photos  

www.selectwinesllc.com Best place to buy wine on the internet

andycollings  If you need a expert photographer... Andy Collings in Chicago is your man.

www.kurtelling.com Just saw him at Symphony Center 8/23/03 at the start of his new tour.

Myphotosite  My web log and some photos

www.metro-links.com 

 

 

Real Estate sites

Cook County Assessor How to protest real estate taxes, how to get the senior citizen exemption on real estate taxes and the senior freeze 

 

Technology sites

www.denniskennedy.com Great information for attorneys and others interested in the internet and how it relates to law office technology

www.lexisone.com Free forms and on-line research.

www.pathagoras.com I can't live without this great Microsoft Word utility. Save clauses and paragraphs and assemble documents without being a code-writer. Try it. 

www.kristismith.com Kristi is an ACT! consultant (a contact management program consultant) She's pleasant, easy to work with and can help get your database going. 

www.amazingmail.com Once your ACT! database is humming, try this web provider that lets you send postcards to clients right from your ACT! database. It works. 

tablet pc I love my laptop, which is a tablet pc. You can take handwritten notes, convert the notes to text and send wireless email on this 3 pound wonder. This link shows my Compaq model.

www.intellifax.com A service I use all the time. Faxes can be sent from your email address and to your email address (as pdf files). Un-tether from your fax machine! 

www.hostway.com Good web hosting service for your web site

www.gotomypc.com If you want to connect to your home computer from work or vice versa without expensive software this is the way 

www.netmass.com  Excellent on-line backup service for those of us whose hard drives fail regularly

www.typepad.com New easy to use web log service. You don't have to be a super-programmer to use it.

ernie the attorney One of the most popular legal sites on the internet written by New Orleans lawyer

www.xceleverywhere.com Put excel spreadsheets on your web site (that clients and other can put data in and use and re-use) Easy to use and cheap at $99.00.  

 

 

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