When you can wait,
And do anything you want,
When you can wait,
And not do anything,
Everyday.
Then the days are
thin and burdensome.
But if you're just doing nothing,
Then you shouldn't be waiting,
And you're not free.
(10) Comments | Posted July 13, 2011 | 3:58 PM
One newspaper article in 1997 told me all I needed to know about the business model for the credit card industry. Beneficial National Bank, the credit card lender for BJ's Warehouse, notified 12,000 of its customers that it was revoking their credit card privileges. A logical guess would...
(22) Comments | Posted February 8, 2011 | 4:16 PM
Buyers of property at foreclosure are looking for a bargain, but that risk now must include the possibility that the title will be defective. One unsuspecting family purchased a home at foreclosure, intending to sell it to their daughter, only to have a title company question whether they acquired good...
(5) Comments | Posted January 3, 2011 | 5:08 PM
Following the maxim that drastic times call for tepid measures, the banking industry continues to pay "lip service" to loan modifications while doing little. On Dec. 15, the Congressional Oversight Committee admitted the government's HAMP loan modification program has failed to help enough homeowners to stem the tide of foreclosures....
(79) Comments | Posted August 20, 2010 | 10:58 AM
When the economy crumbled in 2008 as real estate values plummeted, Congress was under pressure to appease the public's demand for action to stem the tide of foreclosures. Congress considered repealing the prohibition in the law against bankruptcy judges modifying the terms of predatory mortgages, but rejected that option, inexplicably...
(0) Comments | Posted December 15, 2011 | 9:54 AM