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When you are looking for an auto loan you will sometimes hear many different types of auto loan terms thrown around without a whole lot of explanation. Well it may just help you in your search to know exactly what each type of loan is so that you know what kind of loan to look for and you can have an intelligent conversation about the various types of auto loans. So here is a list of five of the most common car loan types you will hear and a quick explanation of each one to help you understand their differences and maybe even their similarities.

- A buy here pay here dealership loan. This is the kind of loan you see advertised on television that is geared towards the people with bad credit or no credit at all. They are loans usually with extremely high interest rates that are underwritten almost completely by the dealership you bought the vehicle from. They are usually set up as monthly payments or, in the case of severely damaged credit, weekly payments. For loans such as this the penalties for late payments are harsh and the dealership will usually not give you many second chances to make your payments. They are helping you re-establish your credit but missing payments, or even paying late, can cause big problems.  Read more...

If you’re applying for a mortgage or any other kind of loan, it is important to have a solid credit score. If your credit score is low, you’ll be offered a much higher interest rate. If it is extremely low, you might not qualify for a mortgage or other kind of loan at all. Millions of people in the United States have low credit scores, and unfortunately, few people are working to change that. If your credit score is low, do all that you can to begin that climb toward a perfect score. Here are five tips you can use to start on that journey to better credit:

Tip #1: Close old accounts.

When your credit score is figured out, one of the things they take into account is your debt potential. Sure, you might not have much debt today, but if you wanted to, how much debt could you accumulate over the next few hours? For example, if you have three credit cards, each with a limit of ,000, your debt potential is ,000. That’s pretty high, even if you are only carrying balances on two of those cards and the total of those balances is under 0. So, if there are cards you are not using, close them. Don’t forget that store credit cards, like the ones they get you to sign up for in order to get a percentage off of your purchase, also contribute to this debt. Make sure that you close the accounts if you don’t want them – cutting up the card isn’t enough.  Read more...

Here are some mistakes that can lower your rate of return in your tax lien or tax deed portfolio. These are mistakes that I, or one of my clients, or another investor that I know, has made in the process of investing of tax liens or tax deeds. I’m sharing them with you so that you do not make the same mistakes that we did when we were just beginning to invest in tax lien certificates and/or tax deeds. Hopefully you can learn from our mistakes.

Mistake#1: Doing your due diligence too soon before the tax sale.

New investors are always eager to get started. They frequently want to start researching the tax sale properties right away, as soon as they can get the tax sale list. I also made this mistake when I first started; until I realized that I was wasting my time doing due diligence on properties that were never going to be sold at the tax sale. People can pay their taxes and remove their property from the tax sale list, sometime up until right before the tax sale. In my experience, at least half of the properties that are on the original tax sale list will not be there on the day of the sale. So if you start your due diligence early, many of the properties that you research will not be sold at the tax sale and you’ll be wasting your time. I’ve learned to wait until a few days before the tax sale and get an updated list from the tax collector, so that I’m only doing due diligence on the properties that are still on the list a couple of days before the tax sale. Of course if you’re going to a very large sale, you might need a week to do your due diligence, but you shouldn’t need longer than that.  Read more...

The difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector is that the taxidermist only takes your skin, according to Mark Twain and many Americans agree with him. Tax bills are unreasonably high but because of something called tax breaks, there are many legal ways to reduce your taxes.

The income tax code contains provisions known as tax breaks, which reduce the amount of money that you and your family are required to pay. There are those who believe that claiming a tax break is a form of cheating–something that only the wealthy or greedy people and corporations do–but this is not the case. According to the famous Judge Learned Hand, “There is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike, and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.” You’re absolutely entitled to any tax break you can possibly qualify for, and for you not to take those breaks is to give the IRS a gift that it does not deserve.

Looking for tax break tips? There 5 rules you should remember when looking to reduce your taxes.  Read more...

When you are looking for an auto loan you will sometimes hear many different types of auto loan terms thrown around without a whole lot of explanation. Well it may just help you in your search to know exactly what each type of loan is so that you know what kind of loan to look for and you can have an intelligent conversation about the various types of auto loans. So here is a list of five of the most common car loan types you will hear and a quick explanation of each one to help you understand their differences and maybe even their similarities.

- A buy here pay here dealership loan. This is the kind of loan you see advertised on television that is geared towards the people with bad credit or no credit at all. They are loans usually with extremely high interest rates that are underwritten almost completely by the dealership you bought the vehicle from. They are usually set up as monthly payments or, in the case of severely damaged credit, weekly payments. For loans such as this the penalties for late payments are harsh and the dealership will usually not give you many second chances to make your payments. They are helping you re-establish your credit but missing payments, or even paying late, can cause big problems.  Read more...