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Showing posts with label Bankrate.com. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bankrate.com. Show all posts
Monday, August 26, 2013

Home inspections - who should be there?

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Steve McLinden. Bankrate.com's real estate adviser, writes this- Must seller be present at home inspection? When the home in...
Monday, March 18, 2013

Mortgage protection insurance, a good investment?

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A recent article circulated by Bankrate.com discusses mortgage protection insurance, sometimes called mortgage life insurance. Dear Insur...
Monday, October 10, 2011

Is a new mortgage the best way to get rid of credit card debt?

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Bankrate.com’s Steve Bucci is its Debt Adviser. He answers a question from someone with an $80,000 credit card bill. Dear Debt Adviser, I ...
Sunday, May 29, 2011

Looking to refi? Avoid these 5 blunders

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From Bankrate.com’s Michele Lerner, “5 refi blunders to avoid” “When interest rates are low, plenty of homeowners rush to refinance before...
Monday, April 11, 2011

How home-sellers can take advantage of the foreclosure crisis

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From Bankrate.com.  Risky foreclosures could help savvy sellers. The cloud over foreclosures comes with a silver lining for homeowners loo...
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Are you tough enough to buy at a foreclosure auction?

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Bankrate.com has a wonderful article, “Hassles of buying foreclosures at auction,” written by Clark Palmer. We get calls from time to time...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011

6 House repairs to tackle

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From Bankrate.com. In this economy, you may be tempted to delay or even skip minor home maintenance repairs, cleaning jobs and inspections i...
Monday, November 29, 2010

Looking for a home? How much house can you afford?

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Trying to calculate “how much house you can afford?” Here’s a link to calculator from the folks at Bankrate.com that will give you a little ...
Thursday, November 4, 2010

Misunderstandings in foreclosure and bankruptcy- how to protect your home

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Bankrate.com has an excellent article on keeping your home in the pending face of a foreclosure. It asked its expert Justin Harelik to addre...
Thursday, October 21, 2010

Foreclosure chaos - who benefits?

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Bankrate.com’s Marcie Geffner writes about the pros and cons of the recently announced pause in mortgage foreclosures in many states. “Rec...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

A little planning can save Mom's home

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Bankrate.com’s Steve McLinden fields questions about real estate. Here’s a column with a question that will resonate with more folks as time...
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

From Bankrate.com - Five tips on how to avoid identity theft

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Five tips on how to avoid identity theft. We’ve had it happen to us and can testify how it affects your life. “Everyone makes mistakes. Af...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

From Bankrate.com - 3 ways to mess up a home mortgage closing

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Here's some practical advice from Holden Lewis writing on Bankrate.com on how to botch your mortgage closing. "Want a lender to d...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Getting credit after bankruptcy? A 2-step process

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Justin Harelik, a L.A. attorney writes about bankruptcy for Bankrate.com. A reader posed this question about life after bankruptcy- Dear...