If you have a Basement Watchdog system that has failed during its warranty period, please call me at 317-662-4529.  If possible, call me before you replace it.

I have seen a  number of articles lately about removing one’s self from information aggregation websites like mylife.com and spokeo.com.  I even experimented with removing myself.  My first impression is that it’s a waste of time, and I’m not sure it’s worth the effort, and I’ll tell you why. In the United States at least, […]

The CFPB has proposed a final rule that prohibits a lot of the worst practices in the Payday Loan industry as well as practices involving Auto Title Loans and other abusive loans.  These regulations are primarily intended to get people out of the “debt trap” that happens when you are forced to roll over payday […]

We just won an award – Worlds ugliest blog. Okay, I made that up.  Sorry, nothing to see here.  Move along.

My most popular post ever on this blog had to do with LSF9 Master Participation trust. I have been contacted by numerous people who either are facing foreclosure on an LSF9 Property or want to buy a distressed LSF9 property.  It has gotten to the point where these calls are interfering with my business.  Still, […]

My most popular posts in this blog have been about Loan Star Funds, and in particular its LSF9 Master Participation Trust fund and its servicer Caliber Home Loans.  I’ve gotten emails from more people than I can count, and almost all of them are complaining that they can’t get a hold of anyone at Caliber […]

I got a call from this number to my business phone. Apparently you are going to make a lot of money if you leave your cell phone number and email address. They don’t say what the name of the company is, but you are going to make a lot of money, so trust them, right? […]

The New York Times has brought attention to growing problems in the rent-to-own housing market. Because many former homeowners had their credit ruined because of a foreclosure during the mortgage crisis, they have been driven into nontraditional housing markets includinge rent-to-owns. As the NYT points out, rent-to-own deals can be worse than traditional rentals and […]

You may look on the web and read advice that you need to perform a hard reset and lose all the data on your phone – don’t believe them.  Try this first: Remove the back cover of the phone, take out the battery for a few seconds, say 10, put back the battery, close the […]

More and more landlords are checking credit reports before they grant leases.  Often they don’t pull standard credit reports, they pull special “trimerge” reports combining data from various sources. A consumer contacted me because she she was refused an apartment lease based on a “consumer credit and background report” issued by Apartment Owners of America […]