Getting The Best Deal On Personal Loans
A personal loan is a sum that any adult individual borrows to fulfill his financial requirements. There are many purposes for which any individual can take a personal loan. Personal loans can be used to provide funds to buy a car, pay for your dream cruise or that remote island escapade, buy a boat ... more...

Real Estate Investing: Short Sale Package 101
I have been asked many times during my travels to conventions about the all important short sale package. First, a short sale package is what the bank or lending institution asks for before taking a discount on the 1st, 2nd, or even 3rd mortgage. The package includes many things that are ... more...

Comparing The True Cost Of Obtaining A Home Loan
Home buyers are often confused about where to begin in their search for a home loan. The process is usually narrowed down to finding which institutions provide the lowest settlement costs, but the different types of lending institutions and the variety of lending programs available can make the ... more...

How Payday Loans Work
Imagine this: you get paid once a month, at the end of the month. But three weeks into the month you find you've been invited to a great weekend bash at a friend's cottage. Do you say no because it doesn't fit into your budget? Or is there something else you can do to help you get a bit of extra ... more...

All About Predatory Mortgage Lending
We have all heard the stories in the press about elderly people losing their homes due to unfair lending practices. Most reputable banks would never consider bilking their customers out of their life savings but there are many small, private lenders that would only be too happy at the opportunity ... more...

Is My Money Safe? On The Soundness Of Our Banks
Banks are institutions wherein miracles happen regularly. We rarely entrust our money to anyone but ourselves and our banks. Despite a very chequered history of mismanagement, corruption, false promises and representations, delusions and behavioural inconsistency banks still succeed to motivate ... more...

What Should You Know Before You Take Out A Loan: Five Factors to Keep in Mind
If you have reached a point in your life at which you want to take out a loan for a car, for education or to purchase a home, you will want to seriously consider what should you know before you take out different kinds of loans. Indeed, there are a number of factors you need to take into ... more...

The Truth In Lending Act
With a stated objective to help consumers, Congress deemed it fit that to enhance "economic stabilization and competition among the various financial institutions," lenders must give written disclosures on cost of credit and various terminology of repayment.Thus lenders are required by law to make ... more...

How To Bankrupt Your Student Loans
Everyone knows that you cannot bankrupt student loans. Search the web with the keywords bankruptcy and student loans and you get either many listings for lending institutions trying to get you to take out another loan, or you see articles telling you that it is virtually impossible to bankrupt ... more...