from Moneywatch Personal Finance
Credit-card debt has been falling for 16 straight months but consumers aren’t paying off their financial obligations as much you might think. Instead, they’re walking away from the debt, forcing credit-card issuers to write off as much as 90% of that reported drop, according to a new report by CardHub. [...]
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
Got credit card debt? If so, good news: the card issuer can no longer hike your interest rate without warning or raise rates on an existing balance. They have to send your bill at least 21 days before it’s due (up from 14 days). And each bill has to [...]
from Dave Ramsey News
My wife and I are looking to buy a larger home.
I bought our current condo 6 years ago. We got married about 3.5 years ago.
Hearing about the tax cred…
from Dave Ramsey News
We went through FPU in the spring of 2007 and were able to pay off our credit cards in about 2 months. Shortly after that I was transferred within my …
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
U.S. consumers are starting to look like a frugal, debt-fearing lot as they pay down billions of dollars in credit-card obligations. But an alarming trend is emerging: A small but growing number of people are skipping mortgage payments in favor of paying their credit-card bills. [...]
from CNN Money Taxes
The government does without roughly a trillion dollars a year because of a slew of tax breaks — everything from the mortgage-interest deduction, to education and child credits, to low rates on investments.
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
MarketWatch Personal Finance Editor Andrea Coombes runs through possible obstacles one may encounter when trying to claim the home-buyer tax credit.
from MintLife Personal Finance News & Advice
These days, many of us are doing some serious head scratching when it comes to credit scores, partly because there is a lot of false information swirling around. Read on as credit score myths are debunked, leaving you with the “real deal” credit information you need when purchasing a [...]
from Moneywatch Personal Finance
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from CNN Money Personal Finance
Americans are loaded up with credit card debt. What’s worse is that some husbands, wives and even children hide those money woes from their families. The results are often devastating.