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USING A CREDIT REPAIR COUNSELOR
By Stephen Leifer Business Credit Education Articles Personal Credit Using a Credit Repair Counselor If you have less than perfect...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
WILL EQUIFAX EVER PAY THE PRICE FOR MASSIVE HACK?
By Stephen Leifer Business Credit Business Funding Education Articles Personal Credit Eighteen months since news of the colossal data...
Sep 20, 20224 min read
GEN Z GOT IT
MORE THAN HALF OF GEN Z ALREADY SAVING FOR A HOME, MOTIVATED BY CURRENT HOMEOWNERS OF ALL AGES WHO SAY THE SATISFACTION OF OWNING...
Sep 20, 20224 min read
PRICES OF NEW HOMES PLUNGE AS SUPPLY PILES UP
by Candyd Mendoza The annual sale prices for newly-built homes has dropped for the first time in seven years, according to a report by...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
IS A RECESSION ON THE WAY?
by Seth Welborn According to experts, the next recession is on its way, and could begin next year. According to the Zillow Home Price...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
THE WIDENING RACIAL HOMEOWNERSHIP GAP
by Seth Welborn Data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that black homeownership has fallen to 40.6% as of Q2 2019. Bloomberg reports...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
REFORMING-THE-NATIONAL-FLOOD-INSURANCE-PROGRAM
By Stephen Leifer Education Articles Personal Credit by Seth Welborn Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith is proposing an update to the National...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
WORKING-TO-PREVENT-FORECLOSURE
By Stephen Leifer Personal Credit by Seth Welborn In an effort to combat foreclosures for borrowers with Federal Housing Administration...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
TRACKING-THE-REGRET-OF-HOMEOWNERS
by MIKE ALBANESE A survey by Freedom Debt Relief found that more than a quarter of homeowners surveyed feel the cost of owning a home is...
Sep 20, 20222 min read
EQUIFAX PROMISES A NEW LIFETIME SERVICE, AS NEW LEADER OFFERS AN APOLOGY
Equifax is promising consumers new control over access to their personal credit data — for free, and for life — as interim CEO Paulino do...
Sep 14, 20223 min read
AS LENDERS TARGETED VETERANS WITH RISKY MORTGAGES, VA FAILED TO ACT
The Department of Veterans Affairs has known for more than a year that military service members were being sold a flood of costly and...
Sep 14, 20227 min read
THE MANY WAYS TO BE RELIEVED OF YOUR TIMESHARE OBLIGATIONS
While it is true that a timeshare contract is a binding legal document, it is often mistakenly thought that such a contract cannot only...
Sep 14, 20224 min read
GETTING A MORTGAGE WHEN YOU’RE SELF-EMPLOYED
Being self-employed can be a freeing lifestyle in which you can make your own schedule, take charge of your own projects, and feel the...
Sep 14, 20223 min read
THE CFPB COULD BE A FORCE FOR GOOD
During Richard Cordray’s tenure as director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the CFPB pummeled American consumers and the...
Sep 14, 20226 min read
HOW TO BUILD A BUDGET AND SAVE FOR YOUR DOWN PAYMENT
One of the most daunting parts of buying a home is saving up enough money for a down payment. While there are plenty of low down payment...
Sep 14, 20223 min read
ILLEGAL ‘ZOMBIE’ DEBT COLLECTIONS RAMPANT IN FLORIDA, ADVOCATE SAYS
Illegal ‘zombie’ debt collections rampant in Florida, advocate says David LyonsSun-Sentinel Invalid and illegal debt collections are at...
Sep 14, 20222 min read
MULVANEY PLANS TO END PUBLIC ACCESS TO CFPB COMPLAINT DATABASE
www.mpamag.com-Ryan Smith- The acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may end public access to a web portal...
Sep 14, 20221 min read
THE BUSINESS OF THE CREDIT BUREAUS
Credit bureaus make money selling data. They sell date about you to people who want to offer you credit. What data is most valuable to...
Sep 14, 20221 min read
WHAT HAPPENS TO CREDIT SCORES AFTER FORECLOSURE
by Steve Randall Homeowners who lose their homes through foreclosure may believe that they are facing years of renting before being able...
Sep 14, 20221 min read
