Work From Home as a Notary Signing Agent
If you want to work from home, you might follow the lead of thousands of other women across the country and become a mobile notary or a notary signing agent.What does that mean? In a nutshell, it means you become a notary public in your state and work on a contract, as needed basis for companies ... more...

Get Your Credit Score To Soar In The Twinkling of An Eye
Ever wonder how a creditor decides whether to grant you credit? For years, creditors have been using credit scoring systems to determine if you'd be a good risk for credit cards and auto loans. More recently, credit scoring has been used to help creditors evaluate your ability to repay home ... more...

Over Fifty and Overloaded With Debt?
In a recent article for AARP, Lucretia Marmon says older Americans are going deeper in debt!Did you know that 450,000 of them filed for bankruptcy in 2003? This makes older Americans the fastest growing age group in bankruptcy. It seems that a down-turn in economic times and todays easy credit ... more...

Car Loan Refinancing - When To Refinance Your Car Loan
Want to save money? Lower your monthly payment? Then refinance your old car loan. Trade in your high interest rate loan for a lower rate, especially if your credit score has improved. You can also lower your payments by extending your loan terms, helping your cash flow.Trading In High RatesWhen ... more...

Take Careful Consideration Before Filing Bankruptcy
Filing bankruptcy is not fun! It is a last resort if you are interested in keeping an active and acceptable credit report. Bankruptcy is the condition of bringing all your assets and deficiencies into an insolvent state. It is a state of financial loss, where your debts are canceled and it will ... more...

How To Tap In To Your Home Equity
With today's relatively low interest rates and climbing property values, many consumers are considering taping into their home equity to finance everything from home improvement projects to debt consolidation.Secured home loans, also called home equity loans, are loans backed by the borrower's ... more...

Buy to Let Property Investment
In recent years buy to let has been a popular way of investing in residential property. Stock markets are out of favour with many investors who have seen the values of their portfolios, endowment policies and pension funds shrink, whereas property has generally continued to rise in value. Interest ... more...

Why Choose a Homeowner Loan?
Outlined below are some of the reasons for choosing a Homeowner Loan. A Homeowner Loan is a loan secured against your home. They are also known as secured loans.A Homeowner Loan is any loan which requires the borrower to provide the lender with some form of security, in the case of Homeowner Loans ... more...

Freelance Feast or Famine?
Sometimes a freelance writing career can feel very much like "feast or famine".At the very beginning, it's almost all famine. You spend more time looking for freelance writing jobs than you spend actually writing, and, quite apart from being utterly demoralizing, when you have a mortgage to pay and ... more...

Credit Repair - Understanding The Basics
What is Credit?Credit means that you are using someone else's money to pay for things. It also means that you are making a promise to repay the money to the person or company that loaned you the money.Whenever a person applies for a loan, mortgage, a credit card or for any other purpose for which ... more...

My Own Online Business After A Divorce And Almost Bankruptcy
When I got divorced, I didn't know how I was going to be able to cope with my financial responsibilities which included mortgage, car, my kids's private school plus all the other expenses related to having a family without a husband's salary.I had recently lost my full-time job, had managed to find ... more...

Types of Home Equity Loans
Home equity loans are a way of using the money that you've invested in your mortgage by borrowing against it. Essentially, a home equity loan is a 'second mortgage' - a loan secured by your property. If you don't make good on your payments, the lending company or bank can force the sale of your ... more...