The Going Broke Blog

I’ve always been pretty good with numbers, especially ones with dollar signs in front of them. But I read lots of horror stories of consumers who fall into debt problems and end up keeping their cell phones and Dish Network accounts current, at the same time they end up with their homes in foreclosure.
So let’s [...]

Via my Credit Repair for Dummies book, I learned about the option of credit and debt counseling, a service which can play arbiter between you and your creditors to negotiate interest rates and payments.
The creditors – your credit card companies, loan providers, etc. – want to get money out of you. It’s certainly not in [...]