
H is for home value, in the Alphabet Game, bankruptcy experts across the country blog on different topics. I always ask potential clients this question, how much is your home worth?, I mean, really, and the response frequently is something like: well, it is worth $200,000, but right now, I can only get maybe $160,000…
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Are you better off than you were a year ago? Record numbers of Americans are not. Rasmussen Reports, the top polling agency, says 32% of us owe more than last year. Not coincidentally, confidence in banks is at an all time low. And the government doesn’t poll so well either. With unemployment staying high, home…
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Creditors may not all look like this. OK, probably none of them do. But that is what some of them make us think they are, on their way to bashing our heads in if we don’t fork over the loot. Loot that we don’t have. The bankruptcy code defines creditor as: (A) entity that…
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