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Home Equity Loans, HELOCs Becoming Targets of Clever Identity Thieves
Home Equity Loans: A New Target for Identity TheftClever identity thieves have found a new source of income: untapped home equity loans and home equity lines of credit. According to a survey by Gartne...
Longer Car Loans May Be a Good Match for Hybrid Cars
The high price of gasoline is attracting car buyers to hybrid cars in record numbers. Hybrid cars, which operate on a combination of gasoline and electricity, get better gas mileage than their convent...
HELOC Borrowers Can Challenge Lenders When Credit Is Frozen
As property values retreat and the number of foreclosures rises, lenders are growing leery of home-equity lines of credit (HELOCs.) As a result, in some areas of the country where home prices have dro...
Students May Be Tempted to Use Credit Cards for Education Expenses
The credit crisis has made it difficult for some people to obtain student loans. As a result, students consider relying on credit cards to pay their education costs. However, there are drawbacks to us...
Refinance: New Law Makes It Easier for Veterans to Do So
In the early part of the decade, many veterans and active duty military personnel took out subprime home loans to buy their homes before soaring prices made it impossible. The idea was to clean up the...
Mortgage Rescue Plan Incentives for Lenders
Some changes have been made to the Obama administration's mortgage rescue plan that could help more homeowners avoid foreclosure. More incentives are being offered to mortgage lenders to help homeowne...
Mortgage Delinquencies Reach Record High
Mortgage delinquency rates were at a record high in the first quarter of 2009, as unemployment continued to take a toll on many households' income. A survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) f...
Does It Make Sense to Refinance Now?
Mortgage rates are on the rise again and fewer people are applying to refinance. Mortgage applications declined a seasonally adjusted 7.2% the first week in June 2009 compared with a week earlier, acc...
Neighborhood Stabilization Program Could Help You Buy a Foreclosure
The government's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) could help you purchase a foreclosed home in a community that has been hit hard by foreclosures and property abandonment. Many communities hav...
Mortgage Fraud Claims a Growing Number of Victims
Mortgage fraud is up as desperate homeowners engage in or become victims of a variety of schemes, according to a report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). During 2008, suspicious activity...
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