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Settlement of Second Mortgages and HELOCs
There is a “hidden” component to the real estate and financial crisis, and it gets very little attention by the media. I’m referring to the problem with second mortgages on homes that have lost market value during the real estate crash. Banks are being allowed by the Treasury Department to keep large portfolios of second-lien…
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Debt Settlement Success Seminar™ Updated for 2011
The original version of my do-it-yourself debt settlement training course was launched in 2004. After three years of working one-on-one with consumers as their debt coach, I had gained so much additional information that I started including a 55-page written update to the existing material. This new content was incorporated into the completely revised 2008…
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Consumers Should Still Be Wary of the New “FTC Compliant” Debt Settlement Companies
In my post of October 27, 2010, “The Future of Debt Settlement,” I discussed how firms were responding to the advance fee ban imposed by the Federal Trade Commission, and that three groups had emerged. The first group are the companies exiting the marketing place completely—these were mainly the marketing outfits that will now set…


