AUCTIONS: BEST BUYS IN TOWN & HISTORIC HOMES: WHAT’S OLD IS NEW AGAIN

For BEST BUYS IN TOWN and WHAT'S OLD IS NEW AGAIN See The Examiner.

DELRAY BEACH HISTORICAL SOCIETY FEATURES EXHIBITS

Looking for a unique outfit? Cason Cottage, originally built in 1915, will feature a Vintage Clothing Exhibit and Sale and is open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays until November 27^th, from aa am to 3 pm. $4 per person; 10% of clothing sales will be donated to the Delray Beach Historical Society located at 3 NE 1st Street, Delray Beach.

“Ride and Remember” Quilting Exhibit – 5-7 pm Receiption at ESW Learning Center within Historical Society location.

Boooo… Halloween Fair, “Celebration of Generations includes candy hunt, face paintings, costume parade and more, Saturday Oct 31 from 11-3 within Historical Society location.

For more details go to http://www.db-hs.org/ and http://www.museumsusa.org/museums/info/1160268 .

WEEK OF 10-12-09 PENDING SALES ROSE BY 2% IN SOUTH FLORIDA

Buyers are becoming aware that NOW is the BEST TIME EVER to buy in Florida, and the best properties are being bought up as you read this. Front runner Palm Beach County was up 3%. Have you been out looking for the best possible deal? Better hurry….

HOW LONG WILL FOODS STAY OKAY IN YOUR HOME?

Keep it or toss it? Head over to http://www.stilltasty.com, and find out shelf life, and length of time it’s ok in the refrigerator or freezer. Search for the foods you want to know about. You might find some surprises!

529 COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN CHANGES PROPOSED

Among recommendations from the White House Task Force on Middle-Class Working Families (Treasury Department) here are some proposals:

• 529 plans getting greater availability of age-based index funds that shed equities and add fixed-income assets as beneficiary approaches college
• eliminating a “home-state bias” for fee and state tax assessments which currently force families to use funds offered in their home state rather than in others
• put limits on balances on a per-beneficiary bases rather than on state-by-state basis
• Treasury should collect data from surveys re 529 plan participation and investments
• Strengthen compliance and monitoring of Section 529 accounts and disbursements
• Simplify the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) which currently has 153 questions, some having no impact on student aid – over 1MM eligible students fail to fill out this currently complex form
• Tailoring the form to individual students
• Allowing students to electronically retrieve their tax info from the IRS and enter it into the online FAFSA

MARILYN FARBER JACOBS is a Licensed Advisor / Independent Insurance Agent – who has College Savings Plans to tell you about, using a 529 Plan, term, universal life or whole life plans so that you, or someone you know, can make an educated choice.