PUBLISHED TUE, FEB 25 20208:31 AM EST by CNBC.com As many consumers know, your credit score plays a big role in daily life. It can determine the interest rate you’ll pay for credit cards, car loans and mortgages — or whether you’ll get a loan at all. Those three digits can save you tens of thousands of …
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Published February 27, 2020 8:30 AM EST by CNBC.com The number of unmarried couples who live together reached 18 million in 2016, a 29% jump from 14 million in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center. Among adults age 50 and older, however, the increase was 75%: About 4 million were cohabiting in 2016, up …
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Just the other day I received this email (exactly as written): I want to ask if there are way to sale – international promissory note. – Issued by US treasury. – Value $20Billion It was issued as compensation for lands in California. I have posted an image of the “note” below. It’s a scam, of course. …
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This was published in the November, 2019 issue of THE PAPER SOURCE JOURNAL. For information on subscribing, click on the tab above, “Paper Source Journal.” Why am I posting a roundup of note frauds committed this year (so far)? It’s because most people aren’t aware of how many there are and how serious is the problem. …
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A Queens, N.Y., landlord will pay $1 million for refusing to rent apartments to applicants who have been incarcerated. The Fortune Society sued the owners of Sand Castle, a 917-unit apartment complex, in 2014. They charged that the building had a policy of automatically refusing to rent an apartment to a person with a criminal …
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As of Oct. 9, 2019, certain home sales of $400,000 and under no longer require an appraisal. Under previous rules that have been in place since 1994, appraisals were not required on all home sales of $250,000 and below, but last year, federal regulators proposed increasing the appraisal threshold for the first time in 25 …
by Fraser Sherman A promissory note is a contract, a binding agreement that someone will pay your business a sum of money. However under some circumstances – if the note has been altered, it wasn’t correctly written, or if you don’t have the right to claim the debt – then, the contract becomes null and …
Gap closings are those transactions where, after documents and funds are delivered, there remains an interval of time before recording of documents. As with traditional closings, a title policy is issued insuring title typically from the date of the most recent title commitment. The title insurance company insures the “gap” in time between the closing …
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Once known as a giant in the single-family rental space, Blackstone is getting out of that market. The investment firm has sold its last stake in Invitation Homes Inc., the company it created during the housing crisis to snatch up tens of thousands of foreclosed properties and turn them into rentals. Blackstone has been decreasing …
More home appreciation is likely to come in the new year. In a new report released by CoreLogic, economists predict home prices will spike by 5.4% from October 2019 to October 2020. That is even higher than the 3.5% annual appreciation in national home prices posted this October, the real estate data firm notes. …
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