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How Foreclosure, Deed in Lieu, and Short Sale Affect Credit Scores

Posted November 13, 2009 - 07:00 by Xin Lu

Real Estate and Housing

Currently millions of Americans are delinquent on their home loans or facing foreclosure. Foreclosure, deed in lieu of foreclosure, and short sales are several ways for borrowers to get out of a mortgage that is no longer affordable. Here is a quick guide to what these options are, and how much they could affect one's credit score.

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Best of Personal Finance: Swine Flu Free Zone

Posted April 30, 2009 - 17:08 by Andrea Dickson

Personal Finance

Defining assets, assessing China, having children, buying stuff during the right season, the recession, more recession, but guess what? Not a WORD about swine flu. Except here. I swear I won't mention it again.

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Need a game to learn to manage your credit?

Posted September 18, 2008 - 03:51 by Philip Brewer

Credit Cards, Consumer Affairs

Suffragette as Liberty in front of the Treasury building

Everybody learns best in their own way. Some by reading, some by listening, some only by personal experience--and there are always a few who never learn. But, if you're one of the ones who learns best by playing a video game--and you'd like to learn about managing your credit--you're in luck. The Treasury has just launched a new multi-media campaign that includes just such a game.

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How To Get Mugged

Posted 2 years ago by Tannaz Sassooni

Filed Under: Life Hacks

Awesome, 10:45 and there's still one parking spot only a few buildings from mine. I do the parallel parking bit, grab my purse, lock the car, and start the quick walk to my apartment building. As I walk past our next-door building, a car stops in front of me, and the passenger steps out. Weird, he's talking to me. "OK, give me your purse."

Next thing I know I'm splayed out on my back like a dying cockroach on the curb -- except much wrigglier, and much, much louder.

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