Quinn Mercer articles

You apply for a remote job and you’re hired almost immediately. It feels like a win—until they ask for your banking information to “set up payroll”. That’s when the excitement shifts into suspicion. Is this normal onboarding, or are you about to hand your financial information to a scammer?

You got the approval and did the paperwork. You hired contractors and maybe even lived through the noise and mess. Now, out of nowhere, the HOA tells you the renovation violates updated rules and needs to change or stop.

You finally find a place that looks perfect, the landlord responds quickly, but then the pressure starts: “Other applicants are interested. If you want it, you need to pay a deposit to hold the unit.” This is exactly how rental scams work. The good news is you can protect yourself without losing every decent listing, as long as you know what to look for and how to slow the situation down.

Divorce often magnifies financial decisions that didn’t seem very important during the marriage.

Every time you miss or make a late loan payment, the bank makes more money.

If assets from an estate are sold, the beneficiaries may have to wait longer than expected to receive any share of the proceeds.

Richard Tornetta's lawsuit against Tesla temporarily cost its CEO Elon Musk his year's pay of $55 billion.

If you're about to go on maternity leave from your job and not planning to return afterward, you're far better off not quitting right away.

Your nephew is the executor of your late brother’s estate, but the job is overwhelming him and probate has ground to a halt. We look at options to salvage the situation.