GPS May Lower Insurance for Teen Drivers

Seeded on Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:54 AM EDT (insuranceguide101.com)

Having another distraction while driving could lower your insurance. Sounds silly to me.

business, insurance, aig, auto-insurance

Senator Takes On Bad Lending Practices

Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:56 PM EDT (mortgageguide101.com)

New York Sen. Charles E. Schumer denounces rogue lenders and "liar" loans, proposing national regulation of mortgage brokers and bans on some kinds of high risk loans.

business, new-york, housing, real-estate, schumer, mortgage-brokers, subprime

Identity Theft Insurance Comes of Age

Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2007 10:20 AM EDT (insuranceguide101.com)

The new products in identity theft not only provide you with money to help fix what someone else has tampered with, they also monitor your key financial and credit information! These are not "pure" insurance products, but I'm not one to split hairs, especially when the product ac …

business, insurance, identity-theft

Making money from the sub-prime woes

Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2007 2:09 PM EDT (mortgageguide101.com)

One man in South Carolina buying and selling real estate foreclosures by the dozen. James Odell Barnes buys foreclosures from lenders eager to unload their delinquent properties.

business, real-estate, south-carolina, investing, realty, foreclosures

Clinton Aims To Triple Health Insurance For Kids

Seeded on Wed Mar 14, 2007 9:56 AM EDT (insuranceguide101.com)

Children's Health Insurance Program increase by $50 billion over the next five years.

business, bush, insurance, clinton, health-insurance, dingell

America's Home Owners Hit The Skids

Seeded on Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:05 PM EDT (mortgageguide101.com)

Overdue mortgage payments highest since 2003. As if the sub-prime market wasn't already experiencing enough pain, today's numbers for sub-prime adjustable rate mortgages show a complete meltdown.

business, markets, mortgage, real-estate, investing, realty, sub-prime, houisng

Top 5 Reasons to Ditch Your Insurer

Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2007 11:48 AM EST (insuranceguide101.com)

How insurance companies are trying to rip you off.

business, insurance, finance

5 Things You Need To Know About Your Credit Score

Seeded on Thu Mar 8, 2007 8:58 AM EST (mortgageguide101.com)

Knowing your credit score will let you know if you qualify for a prime mortgage rate, you won't be taken for a ride and given a subprime rate.

business, credit-ratings, experian, transunion, equifax, credit-scores, subprime-mortgage

Hurricane Rita Claims Top $5 Billion

Seeded on Wed Mar 7, 2007 8:45 AM EST (insuranceguide101.com)

Hurricane Rita generated more than 420,000 insurance claims in Texas and Louisiana combined. This could be a surprise since Rita has been overshadowed by Hurricane Katrina and the legal woes of insurers that have denied Katrina claims.

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Insurer Makes Big Profit On Homeowners Insurance

Seeded on Fri Mar 2, 2007 10:22 AM EST (insuranceguide101.com)

Despite $390 million of claims from Hurricane Wilma alone, A.I.G. made almost 8 times as much this year as they did last year.

business, insurance, aig, hurricane-wilma, new-york-times, insurer

New Home Sales Plummet

Seeded on Wed Feb 28, 2007 3:55 PM EST (mortgageguide101.com)

Home sales lowest in 13 years. Is housing bubble about to pop?

business, housing, mortgage, real-estate, property, housing-bubble

The Insurance Bomb Award

Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:34 AM EST (insuranceguide101.com)

A look at the big winner of this years insurance Razzies.

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New House-Flipping Scam Targets Investors

Seeded on Tue Feb 27, 2007 9:32 AM EST (mortgageguide101.com)

5 Tips to avoid house flipping scams.

business, housing, mortgage, real-estate, property, investing, house-flipping

A Booming Prairie Land Market

Seeded on Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:13 AM EST (mortgageguide101.com)

Want to invest in real estate? What about a nice piece of prairie farm land? Prices are up over 35% in Idaho. Don't live in the US? No problem. You could have had a 20 percent return if you bought land two years ago in Saskatchewan.

business, mortgage, real-estate, idaho, ethanol, biodiesel, realty, farm-land, cash-crop