Wealth Building

How A Reverse Mortgage Works

Ever wonder how a reverse mortgage works? For folks that have lived in their home for a long time, they may very well be sitting on a gold mine. Home prices have increased greatly over the last thirty years, and nationally have nearly doubled in value over the last ten years. This has left a great many homeowners with valuable…

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Loans

Graduation 101 Repaying Student Loans

You have earned a college diploma…now what? In addition to beginning a career and a new life, it also may be time to start repaying your student loans. When a student graduates from college, leaves school or drops below half-time enrollment, he triggers the process to begin repayment on student loans. In some instances, there may be a short period…

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Wealth Building

Mortgage Repossession Can Devastate A Homeowner

About the last thing an individual or a lender want to do is become embroiled in a mortgage repossession procedure as it can be devastating for a homeowner to lose their residence and it detracts from the daily business of the lender. However, in troubled economic times foreclosures may be on the rise as many people struggle to meet the…

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Finance

Getting Cash Now For Your Structured Settlement

If you’ve agreed to accept a structured settlement, it’s likely that you felt a sense of relief that your financial uncertainties were being resolved, and that you’d have the funds necessary to pay your bills, support your family and go on with your life. When you agreed to the terms of the settlement, hopefully with the help of a financial…

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Wealth Building

Credit Card Roulette

If you suddenly find yourself drowning amidst a sea of high interest credit card accounts, you may wish to try a few self debt reduction techniques to make your monthly payments easier to manage and go further towards paying what you owe rather than just paying on excessive interest rates. Playing credit card roulette is a popular method of stretching…

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Debt Consolidation

Is Debt Consolidation A Good Idea

Is debt consolidation really necessary? Perhaps. It certainly can seem like the easy way out of the problem of too many payments every month. When credit card and loan payments add up to $900 every month, why not pay all of these debts off and have a nice easy payment of say, $300? There are two reasons why it may…

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