Archive for February, 2007

Give us your social security number or you are going to jail!

In the latest plot to scam consumers out of their identity’s, scammers are claiming to be court officials calling individuals and telling them that they did not show up for jury duty and an arrest warrent has been issued for them.  They ask the individual for their social security number and date of birth to [...]

Do you want cancer?

I love headlines and this is sure to get attention.  Your buying a home and having your home inspection done, and the inspector offers you the opportunity to have a radon test done while he is there.  Do you spend the $100 to have it done, or skip it assuming it couldn’t be in your [...]

Why don’t all the identity theft statistics say the same thing?

I’ve done a few presentations on identity theft recently and have wanted to find great stats to use for the presentations.  They stats are all over the board, this percentage and that percentage for the same fact.  In fact you can read the post on this blog about the alleged decline in indentity theft.  So [...]

Leverage your way to wealth in real estate

Check out this great article from the Citizen-times.com on investing in real estate.
The concepts covered in the article are great.  But you find the occasional sentence like “Becoming a millionaire is simple”, or “The worst thing that can happen is your offers may be rejected, and you haven’t lost a thing.”  Well I think it [...]

Seniors can get more cash and pay less interest

New York-based BNY Mortgage Co. has introduced a new product nearly identical to the current FHA insured HECM with a slightly lower interest rate. BNY Mortgage Co. is a joint venture between EverBank and The Bank of New York. It operates as an originator and servicer of reverse-mortgage loans and has wholesale partners [...]