When it comes to real estate, a pre-construction investment can maximize your return.
Blue Rose Condo Hotel: The Latest Real Estate Trend
The condo hotel presents the best of both worlds: luxury accommodations in highly desirable locations along with upscale shops and restaurants. As an example, let’s look at the Blue Rose in Orlando, Florida.
Buying Florida Homes Now with a New Home Rebate
Buying a home in Orlando, Florida? Here are some great tips including facts about new home rebates, retiring in Orlando, and more…
How Lender’s Set Mortgage Rates
Ever wonder how lender’s come up with the rates they do? You can stop wondering, cause I’m going to tell you how. We all answer to a higher mortgage rate power, namely the secondary market. The secondary market is where Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and other mortgage lenders ply their trade. These government founded agencies purchase the loans that lenders make, then either hold them in their portfolios, or bundle them with other loans into mortgage-backed securities. Those secur…
Young Adult Credit
Don’t let common mistakes like adding your child as an authorized user or a co-applicant harm his or her future credit. Imagine what a shock it would be if she attempted to buy a car or pass a credit check for an apartment, and she found out that the credit card she’d been making payments to for years isn’t on her credit report.
What is Interest?
Unless you have a degree in finance, you probably don’t know all that you need to know in order to be an informed, responsible credit card user. Now you don’t need to be a finance expert to comprehend the basics covered in this article, but after reading it, you might feel like one the next time the subject comes up with your co-workers, friends, or family.
Never Use Payday Loans
In the past several years, payday loan stores have been popping up all over the country. With names like “Check Into Cash,” “The Cash Store,” and “EZ Money,” they offer unsophisticated consumers the promise of quick, easy cash with few questions asked. But at what price?
College Student Credit
For many people, credit is a Catch-22: They can’t get approved for credit because they don’t have a credit history, but they can’t build a credit history without first being approved for credit. Luckily for them, college students don’t tend to have this problem. Credit card companies view them as low risk, at least compared to other young people with no credit, and so they’re willing to give them a first chance.
Credit Cards – Can You Live Without Them?
In 2007, having a credit card is no longer a luxury or even a convenience – it’s a necessity. You can’t rent a car, check into a motel, or order online without a credit card.
Credit Repair and History
Although credit cards may be what land the most people in credit trouble, they’re also the best tool for credit repair. If you find yourself faced with mounting debts and worsening credit, the most important things you can do are always paying your minimum credit card bills, and not exceeding your card’s credit limit.
What the Heck is The Larry Rule ?
Larry Lindsey is probably not a name that you know, but he is an important figure in the history of personal finance. Currently, Mr. Lindsey is President Bush’s chief domestic economic advisor. Prior to that, he was a Federal Reserve Board Governor. But neither of these distinctions are what make Larry Lindsey significant. Instead, it was a little incident at Toys ‘R Us that gave birth to “The Larry Rule.”
How Credit Works
In order to acquire and maintain access to credit, one must have a working understanding of how credit works – namely, how credit scores are established and tracked by the three major credit bureaus.