Archive for the 'Mortgage Foreclosures' Category

Homeowners Resorting to Arson due to Foreclosure

New here? You may want to subscribe to the RSS feed or browse the site map. Thanks!I heard last year about SUV owners who were upside down in their car loans resorting to arson due to high gasoline prices. Out of desperation, car owners torch (or pay $300 to a professional arsonist for […]

Risky Business: Using Payday Loans to Pay the Subprime Mortgage

I mentioned previously that the subprime mortgage crisis should impact your personal loan strategy because of the number of desperate people needing just a little quick cash to prolong a slow fall into bankruptcy and foreclosure on their homes. CnnMoney confers with their article on the number of people taking out Payday loans to […]

Stanley Bing: Who is to Blame for the Subprime Credit Crisis?

Stanley Bing at CNN Money blogged about the subprime lending crisis and the falling dollar in his article “Who’s to blame for the credit crisis, the housing slump, the weak dollar, and the fear of recession? It’s a guy named Leonard.”
Yes, Bing, you have me interested. Who the heck is Leonard and why is he […]

The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis and your P2P Lending Strategy

If you have been reading my recent posts at Personal Loan Portfolio, you know that I am in the process of formating a P2P lending strategy. However, lending does not seem to be a good business to be in recently. Countrywide, one of the nation’s largest mortgage lenders, is hemorrhaging jobs and money […]