Sep 29, 2013 | new blog posts
Can filing bankruptcy make you smarter? A new book, Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much, explains why filing bankruptcy can make you smarter about money. The book authors, Harvard Professor Sendhil Mullainatha and Princeton Professor Eldar Shafir,...
Aug 20, 2013 | new blog posts
What’s a credit report? Where do they came from? What’s a “credit file disclosure?” After bankruptcy, you want to make sure your credit reports will be right. You want to make sure your discharged debts are showing discharged in bankruptcy;...
Mar 5, 2013 | new blog posts
Bankruptcy gets you out of debts you don’t want, but not stuff you don’t want. It doesn’t force the finance company to tow your car. Or the timeshare people to foreclose the timeshare. And it doesn’t make the bankruptcy court take anything....
Feb 24, 2013 | new blog posts
How to Tell Your Bank to Stop Loan Automatic Withdrawals Stop those automatic withdrawals! I usually tell people that when we first talk. Even before we file the bankruptcy. Internet payday loans usually set up automatic withdrawals when you get the loans. Traditional...
Feb 8, 2013 | new blog posts
Bank of America wouldn’t fix Ed and Ann’s credit reports after bankruptcy. Our disputes were ignored, so we sued. The judgment was ignored, so we’re garnishing. Here’s the whole story. Two years ago, in February 2011, Ed and Ann checked their...
