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Home equity lines of credit (HELOCs): Providing money when needed.
Home equity lines of credit are second mortgages that can be put in place and then used only as needed. They are smart financing vehicles for those who need varying amounts of funding intermittently. ...
Get Your Credit Report: Free vs. Fee
By law, you're entitled to one free copy of your credit report annually. But that doesn't mean all credit services are alike. Log on to the wrong one and you may wind up paying for costly credit ser...
Playing With Credit
Recent congressional pressure has forced credit card issuers to become a little more consumer-friendly. Citicorp has quit using "universal default" and Chase has stopped using the "two-cycle billin...
Credit Card Fees: They're Breaking the Bank
Once upon a time, fees used to be levied by banks to discourage bad behavior. But today, these fees have become a profit center for the banking industry and credit card companies. And since consumer...
Credit Calamity Impacts Student Loans
The nation's credit sources are drying up -- and it's beginning to cause problems in the student loan market. Some smaller lenders say their primary source of funding for private student loan...
There Are Student Loans for People with Bad Credit
With more teens racking up credit-card debt these days, there is a strong possibility that some of them will enter college with bad credit. Likewise, many older students who plan to continue their ...
Why Choose a Home Equity Line of Credit?
Using a credit line to borrow against the equity in your home has become one of today's most popular means of obtaining consumer credit. With so many lenders and loan options, the challenge will be...
Minimizing the Impact of Bad Credit on Auto Loans
It is not realistic to expect people with credit problems to stop borrowing completely, especially when it comes to things like car financing. So what happens when someone with bad credit needs an ...
Credit Card Offers and Comparison Shopping
With all the credit card offers being mailed to consumers, it can be confusing to know which ones are a good deal. While credit card interest rates are important, there are other pieces to the equa...
How to Pay Off Multiple Credit-Card Balances
America's love affair with plastic keeps getting stronger. During 2007 U.S. consumers placed more than $2.2 trillion in purchases and cash advances on credit cards, according to CardTrak. But the c...
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