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- Regulators Could Ease Lender Rules, Underwriting Guidelines
- 100% Financing: Mortgages Without a Down Payment
- Lenders Double Down on Car-Title Loans Attempting to Stay Ahead of Regulators
- Underwriting Guidelines: What do Lenders Look for?
- Need Cash Fast? Beware of Greedy Lenders Waiting to Exploit You
- Mortgage Rates and the Stock Market: Understanding the Relationship
- The eRate Resource Guide to No-Closing-Cost Refinancing
- Identity Theft: It's Big Business
- Drawbacks to a Reverse Mortgage
- Site to See: Movoto's First-Time Home Buyer's Guide
- The Reverse Mortgage 2.0
- The Best Way to Avoid Foreclosure......turns out it's finding a job!
- Realty agents offer buyers pre-purchase credit, mortgage tips
- Continued partisan attempts to undermine the CFPB victimize mortgage consumers
- Larger down payment crucial in today's low-inventory, multiple-offer housing market
- Tussle Over Tesla: Two Controversies Bring Electric Cars into Question
- The New Frontier: Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars
- Site to See: Freddie Mac's CreditSmart
- Electric vs. Hybrid
- Online mortgage videos a good mortgage news
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau may not be enough to clean up mortgage
- How much home will the median price buy?
- Five Drawbacks of Electric Cars
- Misconceptions about Electric Cars
- High-cost areas benefitting from jumbo loan boom
- The Return of Electric Cars: How An Old Favorite Made a Comeback
- Electric Car Safety
- Driving an Electric Car
- Top 5 Reasons to Buy an Electric Car
- Mortgage credit slowly loosening, but many restraints still in place
- Mortgage co-signing not what it used to be
- Electric Cars: Is it Right for You?
- Electric Cars: Buying Considerations
- Electric Cars: Top 5 Things to Know
- Inside the lessons of homeownership counseling
- What's to learn from homeownership counseling?
- Mortgage reform regulations, mortgage relief programs, special mortgages mandate homeownership counseling - for good reason
- What can you do about higher FHA loan costs? Not a lot
- Poorly Rated: A Look at the Landmark Lawsuit Against S&P
- Deposit Accounts: Understanding Stocks
- Deposit Accounts : Understanding Bonds
- Deposit Accounts: Beyond Savings, Beginning Investing
- Fundamentals apply when applying for a mortgage
- Larger down payment prompts lender, seller largess
- Deposit Accounts: CD Laddering
- Deposit Accounts: 5 Tips to Build Your Savings
- Deposit Accounts: Understanding Checking Accounts
- Erate Update: Which Way Mortgage Rates?
- Property Taxes and Mortgage Deductions: Owning a Home in Tax Season
- Deposit Accounts: Types of CDs
- Deposit Accounts: Understanding Money Market Accounts
- Deposit Accounts: Understanding Certificates of Deposit
- Deposit Accounts: Understanding Savings Accounts
- Deposit Accounts: Types of Savings Accounts
- Automotive Loans: Trading in a Car
- Mortgage banker vs. mortgage broker
- Bankruptcy: The Truth Behind the Myths and Misconceptions
- The true cost of homeownership
- Automotive Loans: Trade In or Sell a Car?
- Automotive Loans: What Laws Protect Car Buyers?
- No-marriage mortgages between couples are red flag parades
- How much house will a conforming loan buy?
- Automotive Loans: Determining a Down Payment
- Real estate agents' role in the mortgage application process
- Automotive Loans: The Truth About "Add-Ons"
- Home equity line of credit vs. home equity loan
- Automotive Loans: Top 5 Mistakes When Buying a Car
- New insurance covers home purchase against buyer's accidental death
- Automotive Loans: Shopping Online
- Mortgage rates forecast to rise, albeit slowly in 2013
- Beyond Home Insurance: Creating a Disaster Plan
- Automotive Loans: Dealer Incentives to Buy
- Automotive Loans: Car Buying Incentives
- Automotive Loans: Should You Buy New or Used?
- More underwater homeowners emerge from negative equity
- Room for risk? Hybrid ARMs at 29-year lows
- Federal programs offer special homeownership opportunities for poor, rural households, including 1% mortgages for 38 years
- Completed foreclosures drop 23 percent, signal strength in recovering economy
- Automotive Loans: What to Know About Interest Rates
- Automotive Loans: Negotiating a Loan with a Dealer
- Automotive Loans: How Much Car Can You Afford?
- Automotive Loans: Understanding Typical Loan Language
- 20.6 million homeowners are mortgage free - for better or for worse
- Natural Disasters: Making Effective Home Insurance Claims for Recovery
- Foreclosures down, but not out in many cities
- Automotive Loans: Types of Financing
- Automotive Loans: Buying Vs Leasing
- Low interest rates contributing to tight lending standards
- Automotive Loans: Applying for a Car Loan
- Many consumers would sign up for Wal-Mart, PayPal mortgages
- Fiscal cliff clouds otherwise rosy outlook for mortgage delinquencies, foreclosures
- HAFA enhancements due next year
- Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act on a fiscal cliff
- Still higher FHA mortgage costs in the pipeline
- Housing recovery not robust enough to reduce mortgage delinquencies
- Understanding Credit Cards: Credit Card Rewards Programs
- Understanding Credit Cards: Top Credit Card Mistakes
- Understanding Credit Cards: Credit Card Penalties
- VA loans a major benefit for military veterans, 2.5 million veterans unaware VA loans exist
- Natural Disasters: Does Your Homeowners Insurance Cover You?
- First-time home buyers not always enjoying full benefits of housing recovery
- Mortgage shoppers still leaving money on the table
- Site to See: McGruff growling to take a bite out of mortgage fraud crime
- 'Hell No!" say one in four renters, they won't go for home ownership
- Understanding Credit Cards: How are Credit Cards Processed?
- Understanding Credit Cards: How To Read a Credit Card Statement
- Understanding Credit Cards: What are Your Rights as a Credit Card Holder?
- FHA poised to raise loan costs - again - in 2013
- Consumers prefer candid, transparent mortgage originations
- Understanding Credit Cards: Credit Card Fees
- Understanding Credit Cards: What are Balance Transfers?
- Understanding Credit Cards: Finance Charges Explained
- Smaller mortgages, fewer foreclosures sustain housing recovery
- National Mortgage Settlement reaches out to military personnel
- Understanding Credit Cards: Choosing a Card
- Foreclosures: The unnatural disaster
- Understanding Credit Cards: Do's and Don'ts
- Homeownership elusive more than 10 years after foreclosure
- Understanding Credit Cards: Managing Interest
- 'Shadow inventory,' national election, weather keeping consumers from low interest rates
- Union Now: The Changing Picture of Credit Unions and the Banking Industry
- Understanding Credit Cards: How to Qualify for Credit Cards
- FICO Mortgage Score could ease home loan underwriting squeeze
- Understanding Credit Cards: Types of Credit Accounts
- Good news in foreclosure rescue scam reports tracking to double in 2012
- Understanding Credit Cards: The Credit Bureaus
- Maintaining credit health much like maintaining physical health
- Understanding Credit Cards: Who Uses Credit Scores?
- Decade of Morgan Stanley controversy deepens with racial discrimination suit
- Latest Wells Fargo suit fodder for consumer distrust, disdain for mortgage lenders
- Understanding Credit Cards: Top 5 Credit Score Myths
- Understanding Credit Cards: Building Credit for Newbies
- Understanding Credit Cards: The 5 Components of a Credit Score
- The Paradox of Credit: The Secrets of Good Credit that Defy Logic
- Understanding Credit Cards: Checking Your Credit
- Understanding Credit Cards: What is Credit?
- Understanding Mortgages: Working with a Real Estate Lawyer
- Understanding Mortgages: Working with a Mortgage Broker
- Lenders' compliance due on hundreds of National Mortgage Settlement servicing standards
- Housing crisis spawns mortgage market distrust, disdain, bitter desire to extract retributions
- Mortgage strike devised to leverage mortgage relief from lenders for underwater homeowners
- BofA customer? You may have just won a second mortgage payoff!
- Understanding Mortgages: Working with a Real Estate Agent
- Understanding Mortgages: Making an Offer
- Understanding Mortgages: Sell or Rent?
- Bank of America latest major lender to face REO-management discrimination charges
- Understanding Mortgages: Buy or Rent?
- The Rise and Fall of Interest Rates: How Interest Rates are Determined
- Home buyers replace investors, easier mortgages replace all-cash deals
- Investors poised to further stimulate residential real estate market
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Market Value?
- No-point, no fee loan regulations due in 2013
- Understanding Mortgages: What are Assessments?
- Understanding Mortgages: Property Taxes
- Ranks of underwater homeowners shrinking, boosting housing recovery
- HOPE NOW, not HAMP, corners loan modification market
- Federal agencies, lenders expand mortgage relief to borrowers affected by recent disasters
- Understanding Mortgages: Selling Your Condo
- Vacation, second home, investment loans get squeezed
- Mortgage Fraud: An In-Depth Look at a Hot Topic
- National Mortgage Settlement banks dole out $10.6 billion to needy homeowners
- Comparison shopping is easier, but nearly half of consumers don't
- Understanding Mortgages: Selling Your House
- Understanding Mortgages: Buying an Investment Property
- Understanding Mortgages: Buying a Condo
- Understanding Mortgages: The Formulas of Mortgage Approval
- Robo-Signing: A Deeper Look at Continuing Fraud
- Force-placed insurance a lesser known form of mortgage abuse, predatory costs
- Fitch Ratings: FHA loans in jeopardy
- One-in-three Fannie, Freddie refis are HARP loans, as high loan-to-value HARP loans comprise large share of hard-hit states' refis
- Understanding Mortgages: How to Get a Mortgage
- Understanding Mortgages: Where to Get a Mortgage
- Understanding Mortgages: Mortgage Paperwork
- Understanding Mortgages: Buying a Foreclosed Property
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Interest?
- CFPB: Consumers complain about mortgages more than any other financial service tracked
- National Mortgage Settlement outreach effort one-ups Independent Foreclosure Review
- Reverse Mortgages Today: A Specialized Product in a Recovering Market
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Underwriting?
- Space agency credit union offers down-to-earth, federally-insured, low- and no-down home loans targeting a limited audience, for a limited time
- Understanding Mortgages: What is a Credit Score?
- Understanding Mortgages: What are Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac?
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Refinancing?
- Should you wait to lock in a mortgage interest rate?
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Equity?
- HARP loans jump to 20 percent of Fannie, Freddie refis; 2012 HARP refis already exceed 2011 HARP refis
- Impending federal rules prompt mortgage servicers to clean up their act
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Closing?
- Understanding Mortgages: What are FHA Loans?
- Mortgage rates, housing market shine through dismal economic clouds
- Wells Fargo settles on $175 million in discrimination restitutions, exists wholesale affiliations
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Pre-Approval?
- Rise in mortgage distress calls could signal an unexpected surge in foreclosures
- Making Home Affordable: How are Federal Mortgage Assistance Programs Faring?
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Foreclosure?
- Understanding Mortgages: What is a Short Sale?
- Mortgage modification savings help create better borrowers
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Private Mortgage Insurance?
- Understanding Mortgages: What is Escrow?
- Record-low mortgage interest rates alone won't end the housing crisis
- Understanding Mortgages: Mortgage Terms
- FHA back pedals on credit dispute underwriting rule, perhaps only temporarily
- Understanding Mortgages: Types of Mortgages
- Housing Statistics: Keeping Tabs on Housing Market Figures
- Sources for Statistics: The Main Reporting Agencies for Housing Market Figures
- Federal regulators order mortgage servicers not to violate military servicemembers' homeowner rights
- Dissecting Delinquencies: What the Decline in Delinquencies Means for the Housing Market
- Reverse mortgage criticism, rebuttals coming to a head
- Power of counseling saves struggling homeowners $175 a month
- New Bank Failures Announced: Total for 2012 Reaches 31
- Homeowner's short sale ebook just in time for FHFA streamlined short sales
- Shadow Inventory Fades: Home Prices Poised for Growth
- Foreclosures and Home Sales: A Bigger Piece of the Pie
- Get a grip on record low mortgage rates with a rate lock
- HUD unloading more failing mortgages to shrink shadow inventory, save struggling homeowners from foreclosure
- Mortgage Fees: Sticker Shock Explained
- Home prices, interest rates create perfect storm: Homes more affordable than ever
- Principal Reduction: New Programs, More Controversy
- Are lenders truly making mortgages based on borrowers' ability to repay the debt?
- Health Insurance: Filing a Claim
- Mortgage relief programs seen as assistance of last resort
- Health Insurance: Riders to Expand, Limit, or Exclude Coverage
- FHA too-big-to-fail posture could mean a $50 billion taxpayer bailout, tighter reins on FHA loans
- Condo Insurance: Staying Covered while Saving Money
- Condo Insurance: What's Covered, What's Not
- Condo Insurance: Frequently Asked Questions
- Infographic: Strategic defaulters rushing to beat mortgage debt relief deadline
- Health Insurance: How Are Rates Determined?
- Health Insurance: Types and Definitions
- Risk adverse lenders give new meaning to 'jumping through hoops'
- Get preapproved for a mortgage before you go home shopping
- Life Insurance: Providing for Long-Term Care
- Life Insurance: Filing a Claim
- Wall Street didn't particularly 'like' Facebook's IPO, SF Bay Area home values will
- Life Insurance: Finding the Best Rates
- Mortgage delinquencies at lowest level since 2008 or earlier
- Life Insurance Explained: Types and Coverage
- Home Insurance: How are Insurance Quotes Determined?
- National Mortgage Settlement gets Mortgage Settlement Oversight office
- Refinancing homeowners rushing out of ARMs, into shorter term loans
- HARP 3.0 rumors now U.S. Senate Bill 3085
- Homeowners Insurance: Filing a Claim
- Homeowners Insurance: The Special Policy for Condo Owners
- Video-on-demand due as next frontier for Realtor.com's listings
- Homeowners Insurance: Finding the Best Quotes
- Making mortgage fees make sense
- Mortgage delinquency rate falls for first time in two quarters
- Housing recovery front runners: Phoenix, Miami, Orlando
- Bank of America extends principal reduction modification offers to 200,000 struggling homeowners
- Zillow forecasts market bottom in fourth quarter 2012
- Sen. Boxer harping heavy on HARP 3.0
- Mortgage pundits abuzz with HARP 3.0 rumors
- Costco offers online mortgages
- Home Insurance Costs on the Rise, Coverage Options Decrease
- Infographic: 2012 shaping up as good time to buy
- What Home Owners Insurance Do You Need? Tips for the Best Coverage
- Home sellers lower prices to compete, bidding wars ensue, recovery heats up
- Managing Auto Insurance: What to Do After an Accident
- Home Insurance Quotes: Types of Home Owners Insurance
- Mortgage fraud up more than 30 percent last year
- Filing a Car Insurance Claim: Steps to Follow in Case of an Accident
- HARP, FHA boost refinancing, FHA purchases down
- Shopping Prep: What You'll Need to Obtain Car Insurance Quotes
- Green homes' success cancels auto dealers' argument about unaffordable green cars
- State of the Union Address offers little for housing market
- Mortgage lenders offer states $25 billion 'robo-signing' settlement
- Mortgage rates drop even further this week
- How to deploy no-cost, do-it-yourself ID theft protection
- BBB: Top Scams of 2011 going strong in 2012
- Banks tightening squeeze on consumers
- California Congress members urge Obama to appoint permanent FHFA director
- High MPGs and low auto loan rates can save you thousands of dollars
- No need for cutting edge technology to find the best mortgage rates
- Fashion and Finance: 3 tips to make sure you succeed
- Resolve to balance credit card use with reduced debt and more savings
- Consumers spending their way through economic blues
- Forecast mashup reveals mixed hope for 2012 national housing market
- Obama lets consumer watchdog out
- How to offset the rising cost of rent
- Military families' housing deeper under water than civilians'
- FHA extends anti-flipping waiver again to acknowledge investors' positive role in housing recovery
- Tips for Fit Finances in 2012
- Start 2012 with smaller mortgage payments
- Mortgage rates stay steady and low at the close of 2011
- Gift card exchanges help turn plastic into gold
- Clear Capital report hints at earlier housing recovery
- Homeownership counseling again proves invaluable
- Saints or sinners, investors contribute to crashes, recoveries
- Mortgage rates remain low at 4.18%
- Not a billionaire's daughter? Find the best mortgage rate to finance your home purchase
- Resolve to improve your finances in 2012
- Mortgage rates drop to 4.19%
- Homeowners renting out underwater homes to move on
- Tax advice for year-end charity contributions
- Auto insurance settlement advice
- SEC sues former Fannie, Freddie execs for mortgage securities fraud dating back five years
- Retail holiday workers find little joy in housing costs
- Mortgage by the numbers
- Freddie Mac says mortgage rates to stay low into 2012
- Tough economic times continue for homeowner associations
- More sustainable American Dream is green
- CFPB reveals simplified credit card disclosure form
- December sees uptick in consumer lending
- Resolve to prepare for the holidays better next year
- Banks cooking books to collect more debit card fees
- CFPB zeros in on credit card complaints
- Feds continue 'tough guy' stance against mortgage modification scams
- Home-based businesses get greater protections, but could use more relief
- Give the gift of good finances to yourself this season
- Cyber Monday's over, but cyber banking can save you money all year long
- Real estate investors find shelter in apartment REITs
- CFPB getting schooled on shadowy student loan industry
- Foreclosure crisis isn't half over
- Should you take your home off the market during the holidays?
- Keeping the misspending monkey off your back
- 'Green' homes, energy-saving upgrades factored into true appraised home value
- Refinance your home for real savings this holiday season
- Slow down, drive safely, save on auto insurance
- FHA loan ceiling raised back to $729,750
- Baffled home buyers overestimate appreciation, confused by other home buying issues
- Keep holiday identity theft in check
- New credit scores for mortgages coming for better and for worse
- Take a break from birds & zombies to save money on your mortgage
- As temperatures dip, so do mortgage rates
- Foreclosure reviews available for 4.5 million consumers
- Homeowners fear lost equity more than natural disasters
- Consumers exercise debit card fee options, for better or for worse
- Voters seeking candidates who champion housing
- Avowed 1%er Schiff gives mortgage-backed securities a pass
- Estate planning primer and mistakes to avoid
- More consumers making the grade on credit scores
- Paying credit cards on time, letting the mortgage go, common among struggling households
- Working poor quick to drop banks over hidden, unexpected fees
- Are you leaving 401(k) money on the table?
- Obama proposes more mortgage help
- Explore sharing the American Dream
- Much of 1099 economy home-based
- Who dominates real estate, men or women?
- Underwater homeowner bailout considered with bank settlement
- Identity thieves are preying on your children
- Zillow enhances multiple listing service clout for FSBOs
- Texan towns lead the growing pack of housing markets on the move
- Two of three homeowners under-insured, potentially magnifying the impact of disaster
- Debit card fee slashing strategies
- Economic protestors' debit card choices more powerful than bullhorns
- 'Tis the season for gift card buys and gift card bewares
- Is a reverse mortgage for you?
- Home Price Index gains may indicate a real estate rebound
- Expiration of 2008 program to see housing expenses rise
- Banks' big bailout payback after regulators rollover on terms
- How to get your spouse's financial baggage out of the closet
- NAHB index reveals 12 recovering metros among 360 examined
- As mortgage rates dip lower, homeowners should consider refinancing
- More bill collectors behaving badly
- CFPB to release new mortgage rules next year
- Lenders digging deeper into borrowers' pasts for credit determinations
- Federal foreclosure assistance program falls short of goals
- Vacation property owners enjoy hot summer
- Mortgage defaults rose by one-third in August
- Lawmakers push for more urgency from FHFA
- Research your options when shopping for an auto loan
- Student housing investments moving to head of the class
- Facilitating a faster refinance
- How to boost your retirement savings
- Glitter returning to Golden State's housing market
- Few bright spots in blue Beige Book
- Online car-buying fraud accelerates
- Secured credit cards help rebuild credit, but can come with unnecessary costs
- Free checking on endangered financial species list
- Mortgage morass gets murkier
- Americans prefer to pay down debt rather than save
- British tabloid type "spoofing" threatens your credit card information
- Extended EHLP (Read 'Help')deadline for homeowners facing foreclosure, employment struggles
- 'Jumbo' limits set to drop, making larger loans more costly
- It's housing, stupid
- No shortage of short sale fraud
- Feds to steer consumers away from predatory auto loans
- Home ownership beats renting, if you can get a loan
- Gauge your housing market's recovery and cash in
- Investors better than banks, Feds at shrinking distressed inventory
- Best Back-to-School Real Estate Investment Cities
- Feds pondering how to unload government-owned distressed properties
- Top consumer complaints tied to areas of economic distress
- Short-term bank loans as expensive as payday loans
- Mortgage rates eye of Wall Street storm after S&P downgrade
- Popular Mortgage Refinancing Options at Record Low Rates, Says Informa Research Services
- Debit card overdraft fee APRs soar higher than 3,000 percent
- High interest rates isn't the only drawback to some payday loans
- Feds target deceptive mortgage advertising years after ads contributed to crash
- Home Prices, Sales Fall While Mortgage Rates Stay Low
- Missed the EHLP Opportunity? Use Online Rate Tables to Find Low Mortgage Rates
- Government considering new foreclosure plan
- Housing counseling generates optimism during tough times
- Credit scores cloudy with a good chance of confusion
- Consumer watchdog opens amid efforts to defang the new agency
- New survey ferrets out top markets for SFH rental property investments
- Big break for California short sellers
- Voters united over homeownership
- Credit Cards vs Debit Cards
- Still difficult to qualify for best home loan rates
- Home loan applications tumble once again
- Getting hooked on the savings habit
- New plastic doesn't have to melt down your credit score
- Consumers sought fewer mortgages once again this week
- Debit Cards vs Credit Cards
- Check out high-yield checking, ring up more returns
- More banks spanked for foreclosure failures
- Celebrate Independence Day By Shopping for the Best Mortgage Rates Online
- Renting gets tricky
- Don't over look credit union mortgages
- Housing to take center stage in 2012 election
- ACORN shellacking was just nuts
- Utah BBB issues EZ Loan Protection alert
- Married couples ready to take the plunge
- ERATE's 'Dirty Half Dozen Digital Ways to Buy or Sell in Today's Housing Market'
- Are fewer foreclosure numbers due to book cooking?
- Housing counselors thumbs down on mortgage modification operations
- More than a fifth of Ohio homes are underwater
- Federal Reserve official says housing improving slowly
- Half of consumers can't come up with down payment
- Underwater homeowners taking on more water
- S&P/Case-Shiller index confirms 'double-dip,' home buying opportunities
- Mortgage applications fell last week
- Foreign buyers cashing in on U.S. housing closeout sale
- Investors move to the head of the home-buying class
- Predatory lending tactics continue with greater stealth
- New bill would increase mandatory FHA mortgage down payment
- Shop harder for loans for gas-sipping used cars
- Housing recovery forecasts go 'poof!'
- Federal consumer watchdog digging into mortgage disclosures
- Jobs-housing connection a key indicator to watch
- Massachusetts foreclosures climb for second straight month
- MARS' loan modification protections extend to short sales, other foreclosure relief
- CRL lists top mortgage servicing abuses
- Latest 'double-dip' report heralds beginning of the end of falling home prices
- Predicted home price 'double dip' arrives, price bottom delayed until 2012
- Should you buy a home or rent one?
- Now checking account banks pull the wool over your eyes
- Mortgage maze still leaves home buyers in a haze
- Is your real estate agent packing the latest technology?
- Misleading, aggressive marketing boosts overdraft opt-in fee collections
- How to drive a hard auto loan bargain
- Special Report: Hitting the Brakes on Auto Dealer Loans
- Get a CLUE about your home and auto insurance claims
- Mortgage lenders ordered to pay back homeowners for questionable foreclosures
- Tougher requirements, economy shrink FHA loan share
- Disconnect between what buyers, sellers want
- Payday loans put borrowers on debt treadmill
- Most Americans thumbs down on 'strategic defaults'
- Government failed housing, but continues heavy housing subsidies
- Celebrate 'Financial Literacy Month'… frugally
- Could you qualify for a 'Qualified Residential Mortgage?'
- Why vacant homes are a tough sell
- Banks winning overdraft fee war, consumers losing billions
- California issues consumer alerts for mortgage fraud
- Nationwide mortgage delinquency slipped in February
- Chase offers mortgage counseling to troubled consumers
- More borrowers reach for ARMs
- FHA 'Short Refi' under attack
- Identity theft tops consumer complaint list, 'imposter scams' debut
- Colorado contributes to foreclosure assistance
- Treasury official backs foreclosure program
- Fence-sitting buyers worry about the hard sell
- Bill would shut down mortgage programs
- Foreclosure assistance comes to California
- Disclosure laws protect consumers from more credit card debt
- Sellers? Get inspection protection
- Money does grow on trees, throughout landscaping
- Don't be too cheap
- Bankruptcy counseling helps cure debt addiction
- States offer incentives for green improvements
- CARD Act eases fear of plastic
- Serious credit card delinquencies fell nationwide
- Mortgage applications surged last week
- Freddie Mac losses narrow as consumers make more mortgage payment
- Why housing consumers say you need a real estate agent
- 2011 President's Day auto sales among best ever
- Foreclosures taking longer to complete
- Mortgage delinquencies hit pre-recession levels
- Mortgage delinquency declines at slower rate
- MARS rule offers down-to-earth foreclosure, modification scam protection
- New consumer finance bureau opens to criticism
- Watchdog SAFE Act curbing toxic mortgages
- Many consumers chronically mystified by mortgage maze
- Feds freeing up credit scores
- Pay rent, boost your credit score
- Major lender will open home loan counseling centers
- Alabama launches federal foreclosure assistance program
- Wall Street, not Fannie, Freddie to blame for housing, economic meltdown
- Myths reduce vacation rental opportunities
- Rates still at historic lows, despite rise at end of 2010
- Find Low Rates on Jumbo Loans
- Mortgage fees changing price of home purchase
- Higher market risk-based mortgage fees coming
- Unsung hero community groups save neighborhoods
- State, local housing programs to the rescue
- Proposed mortgage tax break battle looms
- Federal consumer watch dog needs vice-grip bite
- Due to CARD Act, Some Banks Cut Fees
- How to find true value in the appraisal process
- Debit card regulations may hamper benefits
- Investment property owners bullish on 2011
- Jumbo mortgages follow conforming lead, decline this week
- Less filling 'double-dip' doom looms
- Short sales not short nor easy
- Foreclosures increased in third quarter of 2010
- More housing forecasts. So what? Who cares?
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- Reverse Mortgages: The debate heats up
- Federal housing scorecard a mixed bag
- Obama's HAMP misses modification goals, federal program out of steam
- Renting gains in popularity, as home ownership shrinks
- Lenders to Start Disclosing When Credit Score Affects Rate Quote
- Foreclosures proceed during mortgage modifications
- Five crucial contacts for home buyers
- HAMP Falls Short, But Consumers Can Still Save
- Where housing market recovery is underway
- Real estate professionals say home prices haven't hit bottom
- CFA claims auto insurers stiff injured policy holders
- Look Online for the Best Local Mortgage Rates
- Find a Low Mortgage Rate this Holiday Season
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- Cheapest, most expensive vehicles to insure
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- 3 Tips to Get Your Savings Ready for the New Year
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- Mortgage application time increases, decreasing consumer satisfaction
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