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The Rent vs. Own Debate
A childhood friend of mine recently posted the following on Facebook: "I was listening to NPR's Marketplace weekend show, and there was a piece on renting versus buying a home. The generation after ours has seen how the housing bubble burst, and they're tending to...
The Service We Offer That Hopefully Goes Unused
If you are familiar with MortgageKeeper, you know that we offer 20+ categories where folks can find help to their personal and financial crises. From prescription drugs to property tax, child care to credit counseling, we have it pretty well covered. That is, except...
Top 5 Money Resolutions for 2013
We here at MortgageKeeper are jumping on the resolution train. To have a look at getting our finances in order, we welcome Karen Carlson, Director of Education for one of our newest clients, InCharge Debt Solutions, as our guest blogger. Top Five Money Resolutions for...
Home for the Holidays
Ah yes. There's no place like home for the holidays. Many of us are cautiously optimistic that more struggling homeowners will be able to stay in their homes in 2013. Why the glass-half-full thoughts? Foreclosure prevention efforts are making their mark. Reports hint...
Housing Crisis Opportunities
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. ~ James Joyce. Ah yes, mistakes. We all make them. We hate them--especially their inevitability. But even the most negative of folks know that they don't leave us where they found us. So it goes with the Housing Crisis. No matter...
Feeding the Hungry
After last week's Thanksgiving feasting, we read a thoughtful article in the New York Times about hunger. It mentioned that 1 in every 8 Americans is hungry. (This humble blogger once worked for an organization in Ohio that focused on feeding hungry children. There...
