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Fair Isaac and Vantage Score hold their credit scoring formulas as a close secret much like the formula for Coca-Cola or your grandma’s legendary double chocolate-chip cookies. This can be very frustrating for consumers when they see remarks on the credit report like “too many revolving debt accounts” and not knowing exactly that means. Fortunately, …

Here is a great article and video on Reverse mortgages, from MSNBC. Imagine getting a check each month instead of writing one REDFORD, Mich. – For 88-year-old Mort Linick, a red scooter symbolizes financial freedom. He bought the scooter with money he and his wife, Fran, get from the mortgage company, instead of sending the …

WHAT JUST HAPPENED? How did Americans progress from being the world’s economic leader to becoming the world’s economic anchor? Friends and clients keep asking me, “What happened? Three years ago our economy was booming and our home values were rising at an intoxicatingly dizzy rate.  Last October, the US stock market was making historic highs. …

If you have missed fewer than three mortgage payments or are anticipating that you might have to miss them in a month or so because of life circumstances, put your smarts in action and implement this simple plan to avoid foreclosure. Don’t confuse simple with easy; avoiding foreclosure can take time, patience, money and effort, …

Low-credit borrowers aren’t the only people who’ll pay a price for the rising number of mortgage defaults. Ordinary homebuyers will take a hit as well, through higher fees at closing. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-sponsored companies that back 40 percent of American mortgages, have decided to impose a new fee of one-quarter of …

Congress, White House debate solutions to help people keep their homes By John W. Schoen Senior Producer MSNBC As Congress and the White House continue to work toward solutions to help embattled homeowners, home foreclosure filings took a big jump in the third quarter, according to the latest data from real estate Web site RealtyTrac. …

I found this article on MSNBC and thought it was worth sharing… The financial markets are pretty skittish these days as banks and other mortgage lenders continue to report big losses from mortgage loans gone bad. But in any market, one person’s loss is often another person’s gain. So where did all those “losses” from …

Financially stressed homeowners have options instead of just moving out It’s the toxic fallout from the “subprime meltdown”: More and more Americans are losing their homes to foreclosure. Sadly, many could escape this fate if they’d just talk to their lenders. Instead, they hunker down and hope against hope that something will happen before the …