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Wondering what to do with your Christmas Tree? Christmas trees will be collected and chipped for recycling again this year. You may place your tree at the curb for collection on the following dates:West of railroad tracks January 3rd through 7th January 17th through 21stEast of railroad track...
12/28/2010
Yes, you spent from October through December 2010 making the three mile detour to Hopper Ave in Waldwick instead of using Chestnut street cutoff. Now starting in January 2011 for about 10 weeks Chestnut Street will have limited access as PSE&G updates an underground electrical transmission switc...
12/23/2010
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Ridgewood NJ - GMAC, was the financing arm of General Motors. It was taken over by Uncle Sam and has been mostly privatized as Ally Financial. However, many people still have loans from the original GMAC. Some of these homeowners want to short sale, but are curious about how it works. Discover ho...
12/22/2010
Ridgewood NJ - Many of the short sale sellers we help are selling their home to avoid foreclosure. In addition, they are receiving lots of harassing calls from debt collectors. These debt collectors seem to think that if you call someone with no extra money, then you can still get them to pay. He...
12/21/2010
Ridgewood NJ - If you are facing financial hardship, then paying credit cards and other unsecured debts is your lowest priority. The most commons unsecured debt is a credit card. When you stop paying them, they will call you nonstop. The reason is because they don't have any other way to collect ...
12/20/2010
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Ridgewood NJ - The Stop Foreclosure Institute recently received a question from Werner. "I am behind on my payments and thinking of just letting my home go into foreclosure. What does that do to the neighborhood?" he asked. Here is our answer to his question. It does hurt the neighborhood. But, i...
12/18/2010
Ridgewood NJ - The Stop Foreclosure Institute recently received a question from Richard. "I accepted a job transfer and had to move. Unfortunately we were upside down on the house. I decided to rent it out rather than short sale it. The renters just moved out. I just checked the house. They trash...
12/16/2010
Ridgewood NJ - We get this question a lot from people. "I am upside down and need to move. I would like to buy another home. Can I do that?" they ask us. Today they can. FHA (the Federal Housing Administration) has a new program that enables you to short sale your existing home and buy a new home...
12/15/2010
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Ridgewood NJ- The New York Time had an interesting article about one man's mission in the fight to stop foreclosure. According to the article, Mark Guerette, attempted to make use of all the empty, abandoned houses he saw. I get frustrated when I see homes sitting empty for months and months. "Th...
12/14/2010
Ridgewood NJ - The Stop Foreclosure Institute recently received a question from Jennifer. She is having a hard time selling her home. "I have had my house for sale for a little while, but it hasn't sold. No buyers have come to look at it. At first I thought the price was fair. But, now that no on...
12/13/2010
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