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 […]
Buying Just Enough Time for Your Home with a Chapter 7 Straight Bankruptcy
What if you don’t want to keep your house, but just need a little more time to find another place to live? Or if you just need to finish a pending sale before a foreclosure happens? Or maybe you don’t want or need the extra benefits of Chapter 13. Or you just want to put […]
Banks win, homeowners lose in Senate – St. Petersburg Times
It is very unfortunate that this was shot down by the Senate. This was a spectacular solution for Homeowners. I think it was spectacular in two ways. One, is that I would probably get a lot of business … lol… but the other one, is that in my personal view, it is the only real […]