Archive for January, 2007

How to avoid forclosure rescue scams

So times have been tough and you’ve gotten behind on your house.  Now the bank has been looking for it’s money and has started to foreclose on you?  Suddenly there will be people coming out of the woodwork to “help” you.  They want to “help” themselves to your equity.Protect yourself if you find yourself in [...]

Pave the way to riches with interest only home loans

A new book has been released “Untapped Riches” by Susan and Anthony Cutaia that is not your average “how to” book on mortgages.   Instead of making extra principal payments and paying off your home, the book suggests that you never pay off your mortgage and build wealth instead.  Contrary to what most mortgage advisers suggest, [...]

Few states of laws on books related to data breaches!

I was suprised when I saw this article, but in the same breath not suprised.  Just 23 states require companies and government agencies to notify consumers and law enforcement agencies of a data breach.  Just 14 states give consumers rights to put a security freeze on their credit reports.  So in more than half the [...]

Is your house listed on YouTube?

YouTube.com the everpopular video site is now home to many videos of homes for sale.  Creative real estate agents looking to make sure their listings get exposure are posting video tours of their listings on YouTube! Check out this story on NBC-2.com. These are some creative agents.  I went to YouTube to check this out [...]

How to Rob a Bank

Now that makes for an interesting headline! I was reading various stories today looking for good ones to post here and found a blog that had a post with a great headline “How to Rob a Bank”.  Turns out CNN has a page on their web site with that title all about identity theft.  Go [...]