Posted on Sunday, 2nd March 2008 by R.J.
On Thursday the rear end in my car blew up. I always knew this day was coming, but didn’t expect it to come so soon. The car only has 65,000 miles on it.
I’m scrambling trying to figure out a way to get my car back on the road and spending the least amount of money. […]
Tags: car repair, Credit Cards, Emergency Fund, rear end, savings
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Posted on Monday, 25th February 2008 by R.J.
Having trouble getting approved for a new house or car loan? You’re not the only one. And now, the Better Business Bureau is warning that some companies are using the credit crunch to take advantage of consumers who want to clean up their credit.
The BBB reports that complaints against credit repair companies have risen […]
Tags: BBB, better business bureau, boost credit score, Credit Cards, credit removal, credit repair, credit repair agency, credit repair companies, Credit Scores, debt removal, EIN, employer identification number, fair isaac, fico score, fico scores, improve credit score, new EIN, new social security number, new SSN, remove a debt, remove bad debt, SSN
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Posted on Tuesday, 19th February 2008 by R.J.
For months now we’ve seen foreclosure after foreclosure and people getting relatively painlessly bailed out of their mortgages that they could never afford to begin with. Signed your life away on an ARM? Don’t worry, the government will step in and freeze your rate so, even though you don’t pay your bills, you can still […]
Tags: adjustable rate mortgage, ARM, arm rate freeze, bankruptcy, buying a car, consume credit, credit card debt, Credit Cards, credit score, fair isaac, fico, fico score, freeze ARM rate, rate freeze
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Posted on Monday, 18th February 2008 by R.J.
As I previously mentioned, we were going to use our tax refunds to help pay down our credit card debt. And today, we have paid off two of them in their entirety! Yay us! We no longer have to worry about making payments to Wal-mart or PremierBank.
I would have paid off a third, but […]
Tags: capital one, citi-card, citicard, Credit Cards, Debt, debt reduction, first premier, paying down credit cards, paying off credit cards, paying off debt, wal-mart, walmart
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