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Finally a few more protections from the people who issued credit cards have gone into place. As of last Tuesday, laws were enacted that state if you make a late payment credit card companies can only hit you up for $25 late fee if it happens only once, and then no more than $35 if [...]
There is a post on a blog called New Homes Section, Illinois, titled 5 Things To Know About Buying A House. It’s a pretty good article if I say so myself, but I think there are more things to add to this list, which I’m going to do now. 1. Don’t get pushed into buying [...]
Suffice it to say, anyone who reads this blog knows how much I abhor the concept of what I call worthless credit scores. I hate these things so much that I can’t even think of the right words to use. However, there are a number of people who really do care about this, especially those [...]
Mortgage rates vary depending on the type of loan you obtain and for how long you are borrowing it. The rate also differs from one lender to another. When you plan to obtain a home loan, you must shop around and compare the monthly mortgage payments and total interest on different loans with the help [...]
Last year around this time I wrote a post titled A Plan For Turning The Economy Around. In that post, I gave five things I thought could help: no more tax breaks move up the implementation of the credit card legislation firm up credit criteria have a plan for the bailout plan help the states [...]
There was a story on MSNBC.com today regarding what’s coming as it pertains to credit cards, and none of it is good news. Some of what the story talks about I’ve addressed here in different stories, while some things are new. In essence, he has six points, which I’m going to list here, and I [...]
I know that some people believed I was sounding a very negative death knell against the credit card industry last year. I went fairly easy on American Express because, after all, it’s not associated with any banks and their practices, for the most part, have been pretty fair. But for everyone else who has a [...]
