Monthly Archives: April 2009

Can a Debt Settlement Company Help Me?

You have to register to read the whole article, but the New York Times supports my belief that most debt settlement companies are successful only in further lightening your wallet.

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Should I File Bankruptcy?

No new reasons, business failure and job loss top the list.
Bankruptcy filings are skyrocketing again, due to the recession.
Again, not a mystery.  People file bankruptcy because they do not have the money to pay their bills.  Sounds like something the government would pay millions of dollars to study.
Like the people I talk to all the [...]

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Credit Card Company Predatory Practices?

At least one of these three is predatory.

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Judicial Mortgage Modification At The Brink

Senator Dodd is saying it is time to fish or cut bait on the judicial mortgage modification, or cramdown, bill, that is sitting in the Senate.
Click on this link to tell your Senators how you feel on this issue.
http://www.congressweb.com/cweb4/index.cfm?orgcode=nacba&hotissue=1

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The Mortgage Company Lied To Me

One more story, well told, about how mortgage company greed led to another foreclosure.

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Judicial Mortgage Modification: Cost

Not much!  Especially compared to the trillions of our bucks Uncle Sam has thrown to Wall Street.
I think even this $27 per year per family for five year estimate is high.
Judicial Mortgage Modification

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Credit Card Interest Rates to Change?

credit card interest rates to change?

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Celebrity Chapter 7 Bankruptcy

Slide show of pictures of the not anymore Rich but perhaps still Famous
who have filed Chapter 7.

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No Foreclosure Crisis Without Government Help

Fannie Mae a necessary part of how we got into the foreclosure crisis.

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Judicial Mortgage Modification Bill Stalled in the Senate

Judicial mortgage modification

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