What IS the “S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index”?

I got curious—I’ve been hearing about this index for years without knowing what it’s actually measuring. So I dug a little and here’s what I found out. At 9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on the last Tuesday of every month, Standard & Poor’s Financial Services releases the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. It’s actually not a single […]

Another Five Ways to Save Your Home through Chapter 13

In my blog last Thursday I gave you the first five of ten big ways that Chapter 13 allows you to keep your home.  Here are the other five.   6. If you need to sell your home, Chapter 13 usually gives you much more time to do so than a Chapter 7 case. More […]

Ten Ways to Save Your Home through Chapter 13

In my experience the number one reason people choose to file Chapter 13 instead of Chapter 7 is to save their home. And it’s not just because it gives you a bigger hammer against your mortgage company. It gives you a hammer, but also a whole bunch of other tools. Some are more subtle but […]

Property Exemptions in Bankruptcy—A Grand Political Compromise

The amount of property you get to keep in a bankruptcy is the result of a 200-year-old Constitutional battle of states’ right versus federal power.  The Bankruptcy Code provides for a uniform federal set of property exemptions, but if you live in one of 35 states you cannot use those exemptions. Instead you’re stuck with […]

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