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How Buying a Car Can Lower Your Credit Score
How Buying a Car Can Lower Your Credit Score The end-of-year car sales are upon us and while the deals are usually really good during this time of year, you should also consider how buying a new car could affect your credit. Specifically, how it could affect, or lower, your credit score. Your FICO credit […]
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Obama Urges Americans to Refinance Mortgages
During a Housing Refinance Roundtable today, President Obama urged homeowners to take advantage of the record low mortgage rates currently on offer. He made the remarks while sitting with a number of families who were able to refinance their mortgages after struggling with unaffordable mortgage payments (what about all those who are too far underwater [&hellip
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What is PMI and How Can I Get Rid of It? – Lexington Law
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Guide to How Negative Items on a Credit Report can Lower your Credit Score
There are certainly many things that can negatively impact your credit score, some more than others. If you are worried about your credit or are trying to maintain a good score, it is helpful to know items on your credit report could cause the biggest impact to your score. Below weâve outlined four issues which […]
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Rate and Term Refis Reduce Mortgage Payments by Billions
Cash out refinancing hit its lowest point since late 2003 last quarter, but thatâs not necessarily bad news. During the second quarter, just 38 percent of refinances resulted in loan sizes five percent or higher than the previous balance, while 16 percent resulted in a lower loan amount, according to Freddie Mac. That compares to [&hellip
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8 Great Vanguard ETFs for a Low-Cost Core
Vanguard is best known as one of the foremost pioneers of low-cost investing, including in the exchange-traded fund (ETF) space.
Understanding Seller Concessions
Buying a new home requires managing a lot of moving parts, from mortgage preapproval to closing. Even after an offer is accepted, buyers and sellers are still at the negotiating table. If closing costs or surprise expenses become too much for the buyer, a seller concession could help seal the deal. Although seller concessions can […]
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Home Affordable Refinance Program Extended
Despite ongoing criticism and a number of recent bills aimed at ending several government mortgage assistance programs, the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) has been extended by one year, per the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The FHFA announced Friday that HARP’s original expiration date of June 30 of this year would be pushed back to [&hellip
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