If you have been looking for a place to keep your documents, collectibles, family heirlooms and other valuables secure, consider a safe deposit box rental. Perhaps you saw a movie with a spy rifling ...

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Safe deposit boxes are a danger hidden in plain sight. It is tempting to think of them as an appropriate repository for all things valuable: jewelry, coins, cash, wills, powers of attorney. Cash is ...

While movies and television shows have often glamorized the incredible security of safe deposit boxes and/or vaults in banks, the truth could be a little less concrete (or, rather, less reinforced ...

I have a distant, elderly aunt in Los Angeles who barely spends any money and keeps all her savings in a safe-deposit box at a bank. She has no immediate family. We are actually the only relatives she ...