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How to Get Out of Trouble in the Real Estate Market

If you invested in the real estate market recently and are now regretting that decision, there are a few ways that you can get out of financial trouble. For awhile, the real estate market was very solid and property values were going up. Many experts advised investing heavily in real estate, seemingly forgetting to take [...]

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Planning For Retirement Late in Life

Not all of us have had the luxury of spending the last 20 years to secure our financial future. Most of the time, through no fault of our own, putting aside money for retirement takes a back seat to handling emergencies or schooling for our kids, or simply the daily expenses of life. If you’re [...]

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Early Christmas Present from the Fed: Refinance NOW!

As you may or may not know, mortgage rates have plummeted over the last couple of days on the news that the Fed is going to be buying $500 billion (about 10% of the entire market) worth of mortgage backed securities. So, now could be the best chance yo…

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Real Estate Investments - Good Idea or Bad Idea?

Right now, if there was a market that had bad news written all over it, it would be real estate. The housing crisis has made investors jumpy, the economy appears to be tanking and home values are plummeting across the country. Would you believe that this is actually a good time to get into real [...]

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Keeping Your Money Safe in Economic Turmoil

While many are reacting to the news of bank failures and bailouts badly, there are a few people that are taking the time to assess the situation and figure out what they can do to stay on top, and keep their money safe. Panic is an ugly thing, especially when it involves money. Britain has [...]

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The Mortgage Crisis and Investments in Real Estate

According to regional and state real estate analysts, the factors which previously fueled the housing boom of the last few years are easy to explain. The factors that fueled this boom in the real instate industry ranged significantly, including:
- Interest rates that were historically low.
- Flight-Risk Safety Investments for Foreign Investors hailing from South America, [...]

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Rent or Own - What’s Best Right Now?

The housing market has many people concerned right now and one of the most popular questions is whether or not this is a good time to buy a home. Unfortunately, there is no clear cut answer to this question, and each individual’s financial state will determine the answer. However, there are a few guidelines you [...]

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How to Keep Finances Growing

No matter how much money you make, for many people, it’s never quite enough. In order to get ahead, you’ll need to find a way to keep your finances growing. There are many different ways that you can grow your income, both actively and passively, and over time, these small streams can converge into a [...]

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Staying Solvent in Bad Economic Times

Every day, the news about the economy seems to be getting worse and people across the world are concerned that they will be personally affected by the changes. In many cases, they already are when you consider how the cost of living has gone up, gas prices that seem to have no ceiling and continued [...]

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Recession’s likely impact on p2p lending

“In the financial news you can find a story almost every day about the weakness in real estate markets, rising foreclosure rates, and increases in the number of bankruptcy filings. Some economists worry about the effects spreading across the broader ec…

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Debt Decisions

If you are thinking about putting into practice debt leveraging in order to start creating more than one stream of income, it can seem like there are thousands of avenues open to you. For those just starting out, this can be very confusing and it is all too easy to pick the wrong thing to [...]

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A Case for Interest Only Mortgages

This post is part of my Freaky Financial Fridays series, where I argue a case from an opposing view, generally in contradiction to my own philosophy or conventional financial advice.
Interest only mortgages are often associated with the sub-prime meltdown and generally dismissed by responsible financial advisers.  While interest only loans are often poor vehicles for [...]

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What happened to personal accountability?

The $700 billion bailout package has raised a lot of eyebrows on Main Street. After all, isn’t it Wall Street’s fault for making all these risky investments that went bad? If so, why on earth would the government want to use taxpayer money to bail them…

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Your Home Pays You Back with Reverse Mortgages

The follow is a guest post by Tanesha Morgan a writer for Personal Finance Analyst. Personal Finance Analyst is an online community of bloggers dedicated to taking the mystery out of money and helping you to live a happier, more successful life with the money you have.
Lately, I have been seeing many advertisements about [...]

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How to Find Financial Stability in Unstable Markets

Right now, the only news about the economy seems to be bad news, and it may take a few months if not years to improve. The dollar is weak, oil prices are still up and the cost of living has skyrocketed this year. These are unstable times, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy [...]

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A Brief Networth Update

Last month, I decided there probably isn’t a whole lot of value in sharing my net worth ups and downs with you. If you want to put yourself in my shoes, here’s a basic synopsis of my account holdings. I have a little over $200,000 in net worth. About half of that [...]

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What You Need to Know Before Buying a Foreclosed Property

As housing prices keep falling, many people are considering getting into the property market like never before. If you are looking for an investment property, now is certainly the time to strongly consider your options. However, before you get in over your head, there are a few things you need to know about foreclosed property. [...]

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Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: A Mini Review

Catherine S. McBreen and George H. Walper Jr.’s book may be misleading
Every now and again, publishers sense me books to read. More often than not it takes me a long time to read them. I was sent Get Rich, Stay Rich, Pass It On: The Wealth-Accumulation Secrets of America’s Richest Families in May of 2007.
The last couple of days, I carved out a few minutes to look at the book. As I write this I’ve completed on the first 28 pages. This is why I call it a mini review. I wouldn’t normally try to [...]

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Uncover a Rotten Neighbor Before You Buy a Home

Many real estate sites can give you a profile of a town, or even a neighborhood, but none tell you about your actual future neighbors. To fill that need comes the site Rotten Neighbor. There you can see negative (and positive) comments made about people in your neighborhood. More than just barking [...]

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Buy the Most Expensive Home You Can Afford

This post is part of my Freaky Financial Fridays series, where I argue a case from an opposing view, generally in contradiction to my own philosophy or conventional financial advice.
Why is it that we are afraid to maximize our single greatest investment, the home in which we live? There may be better investments out [...]

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Cost of Living - Sometimes Bigger is Better

Few things have as much impact over your personal finances as where you live. For most Americans, housing is their largest expense. Moving to an affordable market can do for your personal finances what years of frugal living in an expensive area cannot.
In her article To Cut Costs, Move to Small Town USA, [...]

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FHASecure New Rules

FHASecure is the program started last August to allow sub-prime borrowers to switch to low, fixed-rate mortgages after they fell behind on payments because their adjustable rate mortgages reset.
Only about 1.5% of the 200,000 refinances through FSASecure are reported to be for those who were about to lose their homes. The rest were homeowners [...]

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Housing Crisis Over? Mixed Data Suggests….

P2P-Loans.com has recently noticed a number of smart folks writing about the end of the housing crisis. In two separate articles in the WSJ (”Opinion: The Housing Crisis is Over” and “Is Housing Slump at a Bottom?”). These articles make very valid po…

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Tax Payer ALERT! The Gov’t Wants To Bail Out Troubled Homeowners

Is there a tax-payer funded (err… “government sponsored”) bailout coming for honeowners? Momentum appears to be building for a broad-based program to bail out folks that bought homes in the boom times and can no longer afford to make their payments …

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Mortgage and Divorce: I’m Unhappy To Be Stuck With You

The San Francisco Gate writes that more and more divorced couples are forced to live together while trying to sell their home. People can’t sell their homes, leading to a real-life version of the Jennifer Anison/Vince Vaughn movie, The Break-Up.
It’s not just that there are too many sellers and few buyers, it’s that people have bought more home than they could afford. As housing values dropped, they have found that they owe the bank more than the home is worth. In order to leave they are going to have to dip into their savings to pay the [...]

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Rebate for the Rich? Stimulus Plan Has Something For the Wealthy, Too!

P2P-Loans.com came accross this Fortune magazine article and thought our readers might like to know more about the stimulus plan (even if you don’t qualify for the rebate check, READ ON). In a previous blog post, we wrote about the tentative stimulus …

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Who is to Blame for the Credit Crunch?

There are many lenders currently under investigation for fraud, perhaps most notably the nation’s largest mortgage lender, Countrywide Financial. Even if Countrywide is found to be guilty of fraud, one company alone (even if it is responsible for 20% of the mortgages in the U.S.) cannot be to blame for the woes of the [...]

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GOOD NEWS - Your Home’s Value is Falling! (huh?)

The rapid decline in housing values has been a bit shocking for many folks and has resulted in a lot of lost wealth (did we ever really have that money to begin with)? According to Standard and Poor’s Case-Shiller index, home prices have dropped an av…

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The Number One Mistake that Would-be Real Estate Investors Make

I met with my friend’s wife this weekend to learn more about her thriving real estate business. She helped to confirm what I suspected to be the number one mistake that new investors make: they expect to make good returns by paying “retail” prices for real estate. By “retail” prices, I mean that [...]

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Is Prepaying Your Mortgage a Mistake?

As someone who is debt free in all other aspects of my life, it’s probably not surprising that I prepay my mortgage. By prepaying, I mean paying more than the required payment each month. This will allow me to pay off my mortgage in about a third of the time. I’ll save [...]

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Housing Downturn? Not For This House

Once a month, I make it a habit to pick up a copy of Homes and Land. I’m not looking to buy a home in Northern California, but I like to stay informed about the local real estate market. The homes in this area are among some the most expensive in the nation. [...]

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Are non-homeowners a safer lending risk in a declining house market?

With all the recent troubles in the housing market, some lenders are starting to ask whether homeowners are a higher risk than non-homeowners when lending on Prosper. In the housing market the biggest problem homeowners are facing is when ARM or adjus…

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Using Prosper for a small mortgage

Today there is all sorts of interesting news about unusual uses of peer to peer lending. The Wall Street Journal published an article about using P2P lending to fund a startup. I just came across an article on Mortgage 101 about using Prosper to fund…

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Equity sharing - Prosper for real estate

SFgate.com published an interesting article today about how home buyers are using equity sharing to purchase homes. The model has been compared to Prosper - borrowing and lending among people to meet financial goals. In fact, Prosper CTO John Witchel…

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What effect would a recession have on the Prosper marketplace?

In the financial news you can find a story almost every day about the weakness in real estate markets, rising foreclosure rates, and increases in the number of bankruptcy filings. Some economists worry about the effects spreading across the broader eco…

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