Finance: Credit Cards and Home Equity Loans

Credit Cards and Home Equity Loans – Read the Fine Print

Written by Charles Essmeier

These days, everyone’s lives are burdened with paperwork. With newspapers, magazines, bills, junk mail, and who-knows-what taking up space in their day, few people have time to look at every piece of paper that comes their way. Unfortunately, it’s becoming more and more necessary to carefully examine bills and contracts, as various penalties are finding their way into repparttar

fine print of credit card bills, home equity loan and mortgage contracts. It truly pays to take repparttar 141099

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fine print in these documents.

Up to one third of major credit card issuers now include a “universal default clause” in their credit card terms. The UDC allows repparttar 141101

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cardholder pays his or her bills late. This can apply even if credit card bill is paid on time! It is important to find out if your credit card terms include a UDC, as your interest rate could be affected by whether or not you pay your telephone bill on time. This is just one of many ways that credit card companies are increasing their profits, but it isn’t one that they’re willing to advertise. When a letter comes in repparttar 141106

mail from your credit card company that says “change in your credit card terms” or something like it, make sure that you read it. Failure to do so could raise repparttar 141107

interest rate on your credit card substantially.

Another “fine

Front Fees

Written by William Cate

Front Fees By William Cate

You're caught between a rock and a hard place. If you refuse to pay front fees, you won't get very much professional help and what help you do find will be very costly. Front fee scams abound. If you pay front fees, you seriously risk being a victim of these scams.

Attorneys, accountants, and business consultants offer advice and often turnkey services to repparttar business community. They do so for money. Swindlers usually offer referral assistance to nonexistent programs or turnkey aid to nonexistent programs. It isn't that difficult to tell repparttar 141082 difference between repparttar 141083 swindlers and repparttar 141084 professionals.

Professionals offer advice. They are anxious to tell prospective clients about themselves and their companies. In most cases, an advanced search at Yahoo or Google will give you information about repparttar 141085 professional and their company. If their profession requires membership in a professional organization, like repparttar 141086 State Bar Association, they will be members. While they will charge you for a face-to-face meeting, you are given an opportunity to determine if their advice will actually help your company succeed. If you determine that they will make a good ally in your efforts for corporate success, a retainer will save you money and ensure more attentive service.

Swindlers aren't interested in making a few bucks doing a consultation. They are seeking repparttar 141087 big bucks of getting you to pay for nonexistent programs. They want you to know as little as possible about them. After all, you are going to eventually file a complaint with repparttar 141088 authorities against them. Their websites lack any information about anyone involved with their company. Their emails are unsigned. The information they supply is nonspecific. They dangle carrots in a foggy haze of vague but very enticing text. Credibility isn't their stock and trade. Working their scams from offshore is their usual policy.

Currently, there's a group of swindlers running a no front fee sting operation offering American entrepreneurs and business owners ten million dollar LIBOR plus three loans from Asian banks. The pigeon is asked to pay for repparttar 141089 business loan appraisal. The swindlers do repparttar 141090 appraisal. Assuming repparttar 141091 pigeon bites on repparttar 141092 bank loan appraisal rip-off, repparttar 141093 result will be an uncertain appraisal. To get repparttar 141094 loan, repparttar 141095 pigeon is then asked to pay for repparttar 141096 loan insurance. The insurance company is a myth. The swindlers run it. If you think about it, no insurance company would offer coverage on anything that is almost certain to fail within two to five years. If repparttar 141097 pigeon bites on paying repparttar 141098 loan insurance, they are hit with more costs. Needless to say, repparttar 141099 pigeon never gets repparttar 141100 loan.

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