Whether we like it or not, it’s a fact: our credit score matters; if we want to buy stuff, it matters a lot. But if you don’t have great credit, take heart: there are 8 very real steps you can take to clean it up. 1. If you’re currently missing payments or paying late, start paying your bills
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03/11/2008
Amidst all the fear about falling home prices, tighter lending standards, the weak value of the dollar, a looming recession. . . While we can’t predict the future, one thing is certain: most mortgage lenders have tightened their lending standards. One part of the build-up to the housing bust an
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03/11/2008
75 years ago yesterday, on March 4, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first inaugural address. The country was in desperate economic shape – the throes of the Great Depression – and FDR had been elected in a landslide to do something to pick the country back up. That day he sp
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03/05/2008
Happy March! It’s hard to believe that it’s already time for spring pruning – how the time flies. I was out in the yard this weekend, pruning the dead branches and leaves and I thought about how my yard is kind of like the Phoenix area real estate market (I know, I know – but bear with me, I’m g
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03/05/2008