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“It may be as simple as getting your bank to shut (that account) down,” says Lori Gross, financial and investment advisor with Outlook Financial Center in Troy, Ohio.
“It may be as simple as getting your bank to shut (that account) down,” says Lori Gross, financial and investment advisor with Outlook Financial Center in Troy, Ohio.
Rob Burnette, CEO, financial advisor and professional tax preparer at Outlook Financial Center, says to ask yourself two questions: "First, how much time and resources are you willing to commit to personally managing your accounts?
“You don’t want to have to eat ramen noodles in order to have Netflix,” says Lori Gross, a financial and investment adviser at Outlook Financial Center in Troy, Ohio.
"People would rather have their refund on time. If you've got $3,000 or $4,000 coming, an extra couple hundred bucks is not going to do much," said Rob Burnette, a financial adviser and CEO of Outlook Financial Center in Troy, Ohio.
“If you’ve got the availability to put more into your retirement savings, then by all means,” says Lori Gross, a financial and investment advisor at Outlook Financial Center in Troy, Ohio.
To rebuild some financial security, Rob Burnette, a financial advisor and CEO of Outlook Financial Center based in Troy, Ohio, advises clients to start with a month-to-month financial plan, laying out income and expenses.