You can get all the basics right and yet still break your budget. Researchers are beginning to discover why. Submitted by New Jersey Bankruptcy Lawyer, Lee M. Perlman How can people get their spending under control? Ask most people, and you’ll get the same answers. They should set budgets. Cut back expenses to better match […]
7 Bad Financial Habits and How to Fix Them
Submitted by New Jersey Bankruptcy Attorney, Lee M. Perlman Most of the modern world is built on a foundation of credit. We have credit readily available for just about everything. Want to buy something? No need to wait, just take out a loan. But this very foundation at the core of the economic machine can […]
Class Field Trip Stops at a Local Pawnshop
Submitted by New Jersey Bankruptcy Attorney, Lee M. Perlman. READING, Ohio — The last time Brian Page had to file the paperwork to evict a tenant from a rental property he and his wife own, he noticed all the check-cashing services and pawn shops on his drive home from the courthouse. A clerk tipped him […]
In Debt and Digging Deeper | Managing Debt
Life in the Red A Time to Fight: Faced with the foreclosure of her home, Detroit resident LaKeisha Tuggle devised creative solutions to weather economic hardship. DETROIT — The belt-tightening was the easy part. Cancel the cable. Skip the air conditioners. Ration the cellphone, unplug the wireless Internet, cook rice and beans — done, and […]
