Whether you’re a millionaire, upper middle class, white collar, blue collar or middle class, everyone needs to maintain good credit by tweaking it or restoring credit. Utilize the following six ways to instantly win a better credit score: Check your credit report: Go to Equifax or Experian , you will not be penalized for a […]
Personal Credit Tips
How Worthy is Your Personal Credit and How Can You Improve It?
“Credit is a contractual agreement in which a borrower receives something of value now and agrees to repay the lender at a later date, thereby generating a debt.” (Source: InvestorWords.com & Wikipedia.org) Consumer Credit is Personal Credit Personal Credit includes: credit cards, installment loans, home equity loans, mortgages and auto loans. Your credit history is […]
Why You Should Keep Your Underwater Primary Home than Opting to Rent
Home values have dropped, your neighbors have walked away from their homes, and you have a mortgage balance that is larger than the value of your property. What are your options other than following the masses of stop paying your mortgage payment and opting to rent. Rent inflation is a result of the large strategic […]
Preparing Yourself for Home Buying – 5 Easy Steps
With interest rates low, large foreclosure and short-sale inventories, first-time home buyers and the financially recovered homeowners have made the decision to get into the real estate market. If home ownership is finally within your means, keep in mind these five simple steps of home buying. 1. Do Your Diligence: Use the Internet to learn […]
Are you in “Generation Rent” or in the “Homeownership Society?”
“Generation Rent” consists of the strategic defaulters, the employee that lost a job or had a significant pay cut, loss of income of a business owner, and the young professional that just graduated from college. The “Homeownership Society” lives and breathes the American dream of becoming a homeowner. Currently, a number of individuals are undetermined […]
Bankruptcy “Cram Downs” for Commercial and Residential Loans
The concept of Personal Bankruptcy “Cram Downs” was established in the “Helping Families Save Their Homes Act ” in 2009. The Helping Families Save Their Homes Act allow bankruptcy judges to “cram down” the second mortgage on investment properties, second homes and also modifying the first mortgage. Contrary to the rule, judges in California, Texas […]