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Educating the public about the Credit Repair Organizations Act.   While most credit repair companies work hard to provide a valuable service to their clients, there are still some who over promise and under deliver, or even commit fraud.  Like any industry (and particular the real estate/mortgage...
07/11/2014
20 College majors that land the lowest paying jobs.   With the cost of a college education higher than ever, it’s important for students and parents to carefully plan a student’s major.  With 70% of graduates holding student loans to the average tune of $25k or more, choosing the right major – an...
07/11/2014
We're living in gift card nation!   How big is the gift card industry? In 2012 alone gift cards reached $28.79 billion in sales, and they are expected to increase dramatically every year thanks to new consumer shopping habits of shopping online, with digital commerce, etc.  They are so popular th...
07/11/2014
43 Fun Facts about ATM machines.   History.   1. There are several highly contested claims as to who originally invented the Automatic Teller Machine.   2. One version is that the ATM machine was invented by Luther George Simijan, a US inventor with many patents, back in 1939.  The mechanical (no...
06/28/2014
  1.  The total U.S. outstanding revolving debt was $870.4 billion as of April, 2014.   2.  The average value of a credit card transaction in the U.S. is $94.   3.  37 percent of small-businesses say their businesses have relied on credit cards to meet capital needs in the 12 months.   4.  80 per...
06/28/2014
  Higher education has a bigger price tag than ever – far outpacing our rise in income - and it’s distancing a lot of lower and middle class families from the hopes of sending their kids to college or university. That’s the consensus of new data published by the reputable think tank, the Pew Inst...
06/28/2014
25 Fun facts about Father's Day.   1. There are two stories of how Father’s Day came about, one that dates back to West Virginia in 1908, and the other to Spokane, Washington around the same year.  2. On July 5, 1908, a West Virginia church hosted the country’s first event in honor of fathers on ...
06/09/2014
Your Student Loan Repayment Study Sheet.   What are student loans costing us? Student loan debt has exploded over the past few years, from a total of $579 billion in 2008 to $1.02 trillion at the end of 2013.  This near double of student loans over only a 5-year period accounts for the majority o...
06/09/2014
ActiveRain is the hottest online community geared toward real estate agents, loan officers, brokers, and other related professionals like appraisers, stagers, home inspectors, etc.  It's an invaluable social network by Trulia that allows you to interact with peers, share education, and form rela...
06/02/2014
Hey, you!  Yeah, I’m talking to you!  The guy sitting there in Starbucks checking his bank balance on his iPad.  Or the nice old lady waiting for her social security check to be delivered to her mailbox.  Or even the family who doesn’t shred their junk mail before tossing it out.  I’m going to le...
05/17/2014
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