Don’t Pay Off Bad Credit

Step three in the “Should I Buy a House Now” series is somewhat of a sidetrack ... towards housing payments. Step 3) Start Improving Your Credit Rating This can take a long time ... your bills on time, that you have good credit.  Paying your bills on time only accounts for 30% to 35 [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 17:02:59

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Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained

Topics In First Time Mortgages Explained Posted By Chris Channing on @ 11:30 pm by Chris Channing When it comes time to buy a house or vehicle, ... locations. Having a bad credit score often hinders many from even attempting to obtain a mortgage loan. This shouldn’t be a deciding factor, since many lenders these days expect most to have a less [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 04:30:38

Houses, Credit Reports, Lenders….ACK!

Wondering about buying your first home? Are you ready to move up or down-size? Have you heard they aren’t making loans any more? ... gift’ you cash for a down payment. AND *You don’t need stellar credit with FHA loans! Bad things ... your needs. *Good credit; your credit score needs to be 620 or higher, in most but not all cases. FHA [more...]

Date: 2008-11-08 12:00:06

How To Buy A House

There has been a lot written about the mechanics of how to buy a house ... again you might even need a down payment to get a loan. A bad credit rating no longer just means ... . But what if you can’t get preapproved? What if you have little income, bad credit or other serious problems [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 02:01:00

Repairing Bad Credit - Things You Need To Know

If you plan on buying a house, a car or foresee needing a loan for something, then it’s important to improve credit, ... and a score in the 700s can end up costing you thousands of dollars in interest. Bad credit repair isn’t something you can pay a nefarious character to just “erase.” Your credit score is designed to let [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 10:57:47

Bad Credit? Have We Got a Mortage for You...

From Giovanni Diviacchi:My wife and I want to buy a house, but we found that the only mortgage that we were eligible for was a new product called a Late Payment Mortgage.  It's for people with really bad credit.  The bank gives you a lower interest rate if you let them begin foreclosure proceedings at the closing table.***Giovanni Diviacchi is a business analyst and stand-up comedian in  Washington, D.C. [more...]

Date: 2009-06-13 10:00:00

Bad Credit Loans

Are you short of money? Scared that you may not be able to buy your own house you promised your wife this birthday? ... to know more visit the site. They also have extensive material on how to clean up and repair bad ... Planning to apply for a loan but don't have a good credit to get one? Then stop worrying. Bad [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 16:38:32

Why buy when you can rent?

for-rent-2.gif There are times besides a bad housing market that renting is the smart thing to do, suggests Christine O’Kelly at Beal Properties ... . A ding on your credit. It will buy you time to improve your credit score and save for a down payment [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 02:07:37

Prefab Housing: 2 Diamonds (SKY, CHB) In The Real Estate Rough

Sometimes the worst markets hide the best profit opportunities. And you don’t get much worse than the housing market at the moment ... for buying stocks in bad industries. Jeremy Siegel, one of Wall Street’s best investment minds, said ... at a steady clip for one obvious reason: in today’s credit crunched economy, people are looking for low-cost [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 11:34:02

UPDATED: Senate buys into the Wall Street buy out… Obama: John Q Public too stupid to know what’s good for country… George Soros says buy out won’t fix credit problem

Putting increasing pressure on the House “no” voters to fall in line, the Senate voted (74-25) overwhelmingly in favor of a $700 bil government purchase of bad debt from Wall Street … with lots ... (increasing FDIC insurance limits). The basics remain the same. The government will buy bad assets [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 02:59:48

Bad Credit Car Loans

The worst case credit scenario for all of us is bankruptcy. I read an article by a bankruptcy attorney once that people’s biggest fear when they’re deciding whether to go through bankruptcy is that they’ll never be able to own a home again and they’ll never be able to buy another car. Those fears aren’t really justified, but it’s true that borrowing for cars and houses is going to get much tougher after you’ve gone through the big BK. [more...]

Date: 2009-08-15 13:17:19

FHA Loans- Affordability Solutions for First Time Homebuyers

Author: Jared Martin “FHA” and “First Time Homebuyers” are real buzzwords as far as home buying is concerned, ... . The intent of this article is to quantify the features of this loan, both good and bad, and discuss ... Housing Authority. Recent events in the credit markets have made the FHA loan a true affordability [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 03:10:31

If You Were Sec. Paulson for a Day: A Foreclosure Clearing House?

On one of many flights this week I was asked the question, “what would you do with the $700 billion of bailout money? ... more to the story but for the sake of brevity we’ll leave it at that. 2) Credit liquidity in the current market ... by the government buying up the bad assets, giving capital to the banks in return for equity stakes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:32:03

HOUSING PUSH FOR HISPANICS SPAWNS WAVE OF FORECLOSURES

For years, immigrants to the U.S. have viewed buying a home as the ultimate benchmark of success ... loans, which carry high interest rates and are tailored to borrowers with low credit scores or few ... the housing boom. But when these markets began to weaken, bad loans depressed the value of neighboring [more...]

Date: 2009-01-06 13:19:54

Die Broke: A Radical Four-Part Financial Plan

Conventional money wisdom focuses on saving. If you earn more, limit expenses, and plan properly, ... ) Pay Cash (reserve credit for times when you cannot pay cash, like buying a house or a car) Don’ ... off of a cliff) Die Broke (unnecessarily saving for an inheritance can be bad for families, bad [more...]

Date: 2008-12-19 08:37:19

Why Does Anyone Think the Recession is Bad for Apple?

Why Does Anyone Think the Recession is Bad for Apple? 12:01 am, November 20th, 2008, Pete Mortensen AAPL Growth.png ... from one of the world’s largest companies, showing that the current credit crisis doesn’t actually ... player market. When people aren’t buying cars and houses, they still find time for personal entertainment [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 08:31:18

Should You Invest In REIT?

With the current housing market meltdown, it’s hard to think about investing in real estate ... with maintenance — i.e., answer midnight phone calls to go fix the toilet. You don’t have to deal with bad ... . Moreover, the current tight credit market and lack of cash makes it even harder to buy [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 03:39:11

The Ups and Downs of Buying a Home

Pretty soon this will be our yard! We’ve been on the home buying roller coaster for almost a month now, ... .  We meet my dad at the house and tour the inside.  It’s in bad shape, but we like the lot ... the numbers, checks our credit, and determines that we should have no trouble qualifying.  That night [more...]

Date: 2008-07-24 11:00:15

Was the Bailout Too Costly?

Was the Bailout Too Costly? Written by Credit Karma October 13th, 2008 at 10:25 PM CDT No comments According to numerous sources at this point, ... of the issue, which is fixing the housing crisis and creating jobs.” She was quotes as saying in a recent ... as $700 billion dollars to buy off bad mortgage security as well as other devalued assets that [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 04:26:06

House approves bailout: $700-billion-plus

by Mark Silva and updated at 3 pm With the House's second and successful vote on a $700-billion federal rescue of the nation's financial markets ... at freeing a freezing credit market for businesses and consumers alike. It authorizes the Treasury to start buying as much as $700 billion in bad mortgage-related debts from banks and other financial [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 19:06:58

AMC, Wells (Appraisal - a Must Read) , US Bank, GMAC updates; MortgageIT gone, What’s with the buy-ups? Rates tumble

The economy is pretty bad right now. Yesterday I was putting a foreclosed sign on my house, and while I was doing that, ... this decision based on the struggling economy, the credit crisis, and the integration with Merrill Lynch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-12 15:11:03

How Wall Street’s Meltdown Helps Main Street’s Housing

Just for fun, let’s imagine a possible silver lining to the complete melt down on Wall Street ... to extend car loans, credit card debt, retail debt and so on.  But this may not be all bad ... are up and his long commute is killing them.  They need to buy a different car.  “But no one is lending money [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 13:00:15

REPORT: Credit lines increasingly hard to come by for auto dealers

Filed under: Car Buying Like him or loathe him, George W. Bush's clearest, most salient speech came almost a year ago on September 25, 2008 when our Harvard MBA president explained to the nation and the world exactly how bad the economy had gotten and why so much federal money ($700 billion-ish at the time) was being hurled at America's banks. The full speech can be found here , but one little section bears quoting: The decline in the housing market set off a domino effect across our economy. [more...]

Date: 2009-09-03 15:02:57

G. Avoid Credit Repair Clinics

You’ve probably seen ads for companies that claim they can fix your credit, qualify you for a loan or get you a credit card. Their pitches are tempting, especially if your credit is bad and you desperately want to buy a new car or house. Avoid these outfits. Many of their practices are fraudulent, deceptive and even illegal. Some have been caught stealing the credit files or Social Security numbers of people who are under 18, have died or live in out-of-the-way places like Guam or the U.S. [more...]

Date: 2009-07-23 09:02:39

Gambling on Credit

Like buying a house, credit cards at one time were rewarded to those who were able to pay interest on the loans they represent ... qualification to sub-prime lending. When we became bombarded by constant pleas to take another credit card ... pay off their credit cards. They're rolling them from one month to the next and that's a bad sign [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 20:30:00

Buy A House With Bad Credit Rating

Purchase a new location is not easygoing. In fact it is one of the hardest things to do. There are so many things to deal, not exclusive in the nowadays but also for the later. What few may not harmonize is that their credit nock may be dragging them felled. Make [more...]

Date: 2009-09-26 20:59:04

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