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 The Insider's Guide to Managing Your Credit: How to Establish, Maintain, Repair, and Protect Your Credit by Deborah McNaughton
Written by a credit expert, this guide explains how to use credit as a tool, safely and sensibly, discussing the different types of credit, how to establish a credit history when first starting out, the Ten Commandments of Credit, how to deal with collection agencies and get our of debt, how to reestablish credit after bankruptcy, and more. Financial worksheets included. |
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 100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances: And the Answers You Need to Help You Save, Invest, and Grow Your Money by Ilyce R. Glink
Scan the personal-finance horizon, and you'll see a vast and confusing mess of terms and procedures: credit reports; universal variable life insurance; reverse mortgages; unified tax credits; dividend reinvestment plans. With 100 Questions You Should Ask About Your Personal Finances, managing your financial life couldn't be easier. This books addresses questions such as how to calculate net worth, whether to buy or lease your next car, and how to develop a diversified portfolio. Step by step, this guide takes you through the sometimes bumpy terrain of investments, mortgages, insurance policies, retirement plans...and suddenly it all makes sense. It's like having a trusted friend and adviser by your side in every financial decision you make. |
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 The Ultimate Credit Handbook: How to Double Your Credit, Cut Your Debt, and Have a Lifetime of Great Credit by Gerri Detweiler
Detweiler, a former director of Bankcard Holders of America, draws on her years of expertise in counseling consumers with credit problems to write the definitive handbook on how to have more credit, get out of debt, and live a lifetime of financial stability and prosperity. |
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 Money Troubles: Legal Strategies to Cope with Your Debts by Robin Leonard
Feeling overwhelmed by your debts? This book is exactly what you need to help you get out from under them! Attorney Robin Leonard shows you step-by-step how to prioritize debts, negotiate with creditors, stop collector harassment, challenge wage attachments, respond to creditor lawsuits, and rebuild credit. Includes sample letters to creditors, as well as worksheets and charts to calculate your debts and expenses and help you create a repayment plan. |
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 Personal Finance for Dummies by Eric Tyson
This solid reference cuts through the jargon and provides you with sound advice, expert tips, and recommendations for how to quickly get your financial picture in order. Inside you'll discover how to assess your current financial situation; get out of debt - and stay out; decrease your spending and create a budget you can live with; pinpoint your investment priorities; plan ahead for your retirement and slash your taxes; understand stocks, real estate, and other wealth-building investments; make wise financial decisions when faced with major life changes like downsizing or retirement; and how to improve your insurance coverage and reduce its cost. |
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 Ordinary People, Extraordinary Wealth: The 8 Secrets of How 5,000 Ordinary Americans Became Successful Investors -- and How You Can Too! by Ric Edelman
How did a secretary, a firefighter, a retired naval officer, a housewife, a construction worker, a schoolteacher, and a pharmacist become wealthy? Bestselling author Ric Edelman has studied the wealth-making habits of these and 5,000 other ordinary Americans. What he found is revealed for the first time in this book: the eight great secrets to attaining wealth. Topics include how to turn your mortgage into a wealth-enhancing tool; why small investments work better than big ones; how to max out on your employer-sponsored retirement plan; when to hold your investments and when to fold them; and when to pay attention to financial news and when to turn it off. This extraordinary book is filled with the advice of everyday people--people like your own friends and neighbors--who entered the world of personal finance, often with no real plan at the start, but who found ways to accumulate astonishing amounts of money. |
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 Smart Couples Finish Rich: 9 Steps to Creating a Rich Future for You and Your Partner by David Bach
From first-time newlyweds to people on their second or third marriage, couples face an overwhelming task when it comes to money management. Nationally renowned financial advisor and bestselling author David Bach knows that it doesn’t have to be this way. In Smart Couples Finish Rich, he provides couples with easy-to-use tools that cover everything from credit card management, to investment advice, to long-term care. You and your partner will learn how to work together as a team to identify your core values and dreams, creating a financial plan that will allow you to achieve security, provide for your family’s future financial needs, and increase your income. Together, you’ll learn why couples that plan their finances together, stay together! |
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 The Road to Wealth: A Comprehensive Guide to Your Money by Suze Orman
The Road to Wealth imparts information critical to every stage of your financial life. Whether you are a novice investor or a veteran of the market, whether you are laying the building blocks for a rich future or seeking comfort in your retirement years, Orman has the answers for you. Orman has compiled an invaluable resource of practical financial information in a dynamic question-and-answer format. Topics covered include credit-card basics; understanding credit reports; bankruptcy; retirement planning; money market funds; certificates of deposit; Medicare, Medicaid, and Medigap; finding an affordable home; fixed-rate, variable, and adjustable-rate mortgages; equity lines of credit; refinancing and much more. |
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 Your New House: The Alert Consumer's Guide to Buying and Building a Quality Home by Alan Fields
This year 1.2 million consumers will buy a new home, and they need real help in navigating the new-home minefield. The latest edition of Your New House includes charts, tables, black-and-white illustrations throughout, as well as updated prices and new trends in home buying. Also added is information on the dot-com shakeout, including what it means for online mortgages and home listings. Readers will learn about bargains, smart solutions to finding the lowest mortgage rates, how to screen builders, and more. |
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