Financial Service Info

It’s that time of year: cozy couch time, watching the snow fall…and trying not to cry when you open your energy bill. Yes, heating your home can take up a huge chunk of the household budget, so I decided to tackle the topic for my column in the February issue of Redbook.   I found [...]

Young people in the Keystone State who want to buy a home may find their personal finance situation makes it more difficult to do so. However, there is help out there in the form of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, which acts as a resource for consumers in the state. Brian Hudson, PHFA executive and [...]

I am very quick to promote working from home; whether you are self-employed, a freelancer or telecommute, I believe that working from home can be the lifeline that many small businesses need. Having said that, working from home can prove difficult for many people, with a number of pitfalls coming in to play. In this [...]

More people are working from home today than ever! Thanks to the advent of the internet, many corporations are now allowing their employees, to work from home. There has never been a better time to sell products on the internet, but you must act now! Major corporations are finding the advantages and savings of work [...]

The New York Foreclosure Law Blog has posted an interesting story about a woman who saved her home from foreclosure in an unexpected way. Angela Logan, an aspiring actress, actually baked and sold enough “Mortgage Apple Cakes” to make her house payments. She began doing this last summer and in less than a year the [...]

You’ve heard by now that one-quarter of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage are “underwater” on their loans, owing more than their houses are worth. That percentage is likely to grow. Deutsche Bank predicts nearly half of mortgaged homeowners, or 25 million households, will be underwater by the time the housing recession ends. That’s grim, but [...]