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   <title>Your Credit Score Affects Your Loans</title>
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   <description>It&#39;s a must to know your credit score and to make a plan to repair any low score.Learn about your credit score as well as finding out about various loans that are available to you.</description>
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   <category domain = "http://www.loansopedia.com/loans-blog.html#">getting a loan</category>
   <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:44:04 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Consolidation Loans</title>
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<description>Consolidation Loans may help you get out of a tight financial condition but you need to weight your options and decide if consolidating your loans is right for you.</description>
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    <title>Correct Any Credit Report Errors</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/correct-credit-report-errors.html</link>
    <description>How to Correct Credit Report Errors</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 14:18:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Identity Theft Fix</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/identity-theft-fix.html</link>
    <description>Identity Theft Fix</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 13:50:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Your Credit Score</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-score.html</link>
    <description>Your Credit Score and How to Fix It</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:20:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Identity Theft and Your Credit Score</title>
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    <description>Identity Theft and Your Credit Score</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:02:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Vary Your Types of Credit</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-score.html</link>
    <description>The types of credit you have are a big factor that goes into calculating your credit score.  As a rule of thumb, most lenders like to see that you are capable of handling a range of credit types well.  Having some form of personal credit - such as credit cards as well as some larger types of credit  such as a mortgage or auto loan - and paying them off regularly is considered better than having only one type of credit.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 16:04:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Boost Your Credit Score</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/boost-credit-score.html</link>
    <description>Boost Your Credit Score</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 15:52:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Repair</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-repair.html</link>
    <description>Credit Repair</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:21:53 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Bureaus Contact Information</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-bureaus-contact-information.html</link>
    <description>Credit Bureaus Contact Information</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:59:06 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Card Score</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-card-score.html</link>
    <description>Credit Card Score - What You Need to Know </description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 15:27:59 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>FICO Score Ranges</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/fico-score-ranges.html</link>
    <description>FICO Score Ranges</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:51:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>How to Avoid Bankruptcy</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/avoid-bankruptcy.html</link>
    <description>How to Avoid Bankruptcy</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:19:15 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Compare Credit  Cards</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/compare-credit-cards.html</link>
    <description>Compare Credit Cards to Find the Best One for You</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 15:05:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Student Credit Cards</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/loans-blog.html#Student-Credit-Cards</link>
    <description>Student credit cards are special cards created specifically for young students.  They are an easy way for young adults to establish a history of credit.

Student charge cards normally have substantially reduced credit limits  than standard credit cards.  A good Student Charge Card will give you the lowest Annual percentage rates (Apr), a higher grace period that you might make your payment, and options to help you better keep track of your financial situation such as a spending budget finance calculator or free credit lessons.

College student charge cards  might help students develop their credit histories while earning incentive points which you can use at locations where students go shopping.  Several student cards also provide percent introductory rates of interest, rewards and cash back.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Non Profit Debt Consolidation Companies</title>
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    <description>Non Profit Debt Consolidation Companies</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:15:23 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Debt Consolidation Loans</title>
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    <description>Debt consolidation loans are oftentimes the most effective way for homeowners to reduce debt and get a lower interest rate.  

Debt consolidation loans combine your unsecured loanst into a single loan that requires only a single payment, making it easier for many people to manage the payments. These loans are established between yourself and a debt consolidation company. You are not working with the creditors you are in debt with or with your credit counseling agency.   

The debt consolidator will work directly with your creditors and attempt to pay off the debt; you end up making a lower, fixed monthly payment towards the consolidation loan, not the individual loans.   

Your debt is now with the consolidation company and not your original debtors.

Low debt consolidation loans can help you consolidate all your debts into one manageable payment.  If, in turn, the debt consolidation loan carries a low enough interest rate, your payments can be greatly reduced.  Many people find making one payment can be much more convenient that making four or five smaller payments each month.

It works great but carries a risk if you decide that you can now take out additional loans since you have more money each month. Work to pay off the loan before getting yourself into further debt.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:10:56 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Student Loans</title>
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    <description>Now is not the time to procrastinate. Many student loans have deadlines for filing that are either past or are getting near.

If you need a student loan for college, get started now. Visit &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.student-loans-digest.com&quot;&gt;Student Loans Digest&lt;/a&gt; and find out how to get started.

Let me impress on you the need to act NOW! If you miss getting your student loan now you may have to delay going to college and, even worse, you may never go.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:59:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Fraud - Buyer Beware</title>
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    <description>Credit Fraud - Buyer Beware</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:26:14 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>0 Percent Credit Cards</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/0-percent-credit-cards.html</link>
    <description>0 Percent Credit Cards</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:00:47 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Card Laws Continued</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-card-laws-2.html</link>
    <description>Credit Card Laws Continued</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:04:57 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Card Laws</title>
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    <description>Credit Card Laws - Know Your Card</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:53:45 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Student Loans for College Students</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/student-loans.html</link>
    <description>Student Loans for College</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:40:12 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>O Balance Transfers Credit Cards</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/0-balance-transfers-credit-cards.html</link>
    <description>O Balance Transfers Credit Cards - Good or Bad</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:24:29 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Improve Your Credit Score</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/creditscorerepair1.html</link>
    <description>How to Improve Your Credit Score</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 15:40:27 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Consolidation Loans</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/consolidation-loans.html</link>
    <description>Consolidation Loans</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 20:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Your Credit Score Rights</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/loans-blog.html#Your-Credit-Score-Rights</link>
    <description>Remember, by law, credit scores may not consider your race, color, religion, national origin, sex and marital status, and whether you receive public assistance or exercise any consumer right under the federal Equal Credit Opportunity Act or the Fair Credit Reporting Act.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:25:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Card Score Scam</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-card-score-scam.html</link>
    <description>Credit Card Score Scam</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:21:43 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Credit Card Information</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-card.html</link>
    <description>Credit Card Information</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Additional Credit Card Laws</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/credit-card-score.html</link>
    <description>&lt;h2&gt;Additional Credit Card Fee Protections&lt;/h3&gt;

    * No inactivity fees. Your credit card company can&#39;t charge you any inactivity fees, such as fees for not using your card. Keep an eye on this because I noticed a credit card application saying no yearly fee if you use the card. Not sure if this is a fine line or not.

    * One-fee limit. Your credit card company can&#39;t charge you more than one fee for a single event or transaction that violates your cardholder agreement. For example, you cannot be charged more than one fee for a single late payment.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 17:06:22 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>New Credit Card Laws</title>
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    <description>There are changes to the credit card laws. Here is one example . . .

&lt;h2&gt;Reasonable penalty fees&lt;/h2&gt;

If you are late making your minimum payment.

    * Previously your late payment fee may have been as high as $39, and you likely paid the same fee whether you are late with a $20 minimum payment or a $100 minimum payment.
    * Under the new rules: Your credit card company cannot charge you a fee of more than $25 unless:
          o One of your last six payments was late, in which case your fee may be up to $35; or
          o Your credit card company can show that the costs it incurs as a result of late payments justify a higher fee.

In addition, &lt;b&gt;your credit card company cannot charge a late payment fee that is greater than your minimum payment.&lt;/b&gt; So, if your minimum payment is $20, your late payment fee can&#39;t be more than $20. Similarly, if you exceed your credit limit by $5, you can&#39;t be charged an over-the-limit fee of more than $5.</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 18:03:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>FICO - Your Credit Score</title>
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    <description>FICO - Your Credit Score</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:24:13 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Refinancing a Second Mortgage</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/second-mortgage-refinancing.html</link>
    <description>Refinancing Your Second Mortgage</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:16:31 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Your Credit Score</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/your-credit-score.html</link>
    <description>Your Credit Score</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:10:58 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Refinancing Terms</title>
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    <description>Refinancing Terms You Need to Know</description>
    <pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:50:05 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Student Loan Consolidation</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/loans-blog.html#Student-Loan-Consolidation</link>
    <description>Over time, anye student loans you have borrowed could possibly have been assigned with different variable interest rates.   Note that the key word here is variable.   While the loan you received may have offered, say, 3.5 percent at first, the rate will actually go up as the interest rates rise.   

So, if you have two or more of these loans, there is a great possibility that you may have owed amounts at different rates, and these rates can rise and fall yearly.   Considering that the interest rates have nowhere else to go but up, it is no doubt a safe bet that the debt you have accumulated will mount faster than it would if you consider a student loan consolidation.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:06:08 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Foreclosures Halted In 23 States</title>
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    <description>I wanted to alert you on this in the event you have a house that may be in or near the foreclosure stages.

Many banks are putting on a temporary halt in foreclosures to see if they have been properly handles as far as paper work goes. I don&#39;t doubt banks are also being stuck with too many houses to sell and are looking for a way out. But that&#39;s simply my thoughts.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foreclosure-digest.com&quot;&gt;Foreclosures&lt;/a&gt; are discussed in great detail here.</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 14:22:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Debt Reduction</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/debt-reduction.html</link>
    <description>Debt Reduction</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 11:32:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mortgage Modifications</title>
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    <description>Only one in 10 borrowers with a 2010 modification were three months behind. But two of 10 with 2009 loan modifications were seriously delinquent, and three of 10 borrowers with 2008 loan modifications were at least three months late.

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/Latest-News-Wires/2010/0926/Mortgage-modifications-improving-with-time&quot; target=top&gt;Mortgage Modifications&lt;/a&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 15:09:39 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Loan Calculator for Mortgage Loan</title>
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    <description>Loan Calculator for Mortgage Loan</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:39:32 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Getting a Loan - An Encyclopedia of Loans Help</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/index.html</link>
    <description>Getting a Loan - A Loan Encyclopedia</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:55:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>The Dangers of Payday Loans</title>
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    <description>The Dangers of Payday Loans</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 16:27:26 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Secured Loan</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/secured-loan.html</link>
    <description>With all loans it is important to read the fine print carefully before you sign any papers. When you are applying for a secured loan&#39; it becomes doubly important.

Some loans may offer you a little more leniency before they take over your asset. Others may be ve very strict. You don&#39;t want the lender taking your car because you missed a single payment.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:04:37 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Secured Loan</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/secured-loan.html</link>
    <description>Secured Loan - Loan Secured by Assets</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:34:46 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Certificate Of Reasonable Value</title>
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    <description>A certificate of reasonable value (CRV) is a document that states what the appraiser&#39;s estimate of the property value for a home is.  Obviously that means an appraisal is a necessary step towards receiving a VA home loan because the amount of the CRV determines the exact amount of the loan.  

VA appraisals are available upon request for every party that may be involved in the home purchasing process.  There is a simple form available from the Veterans Administration called a VA Form 26-1805, Request for Determination of Reasonable Value.  Once you fill this out, you can send it to the Loan Guaranty Division at the closest VA office to be processed.  An appraiser will be assigned to make an assessment, which is turned in to the local VA office.  You will have to pay a preset fee for the appraiser&#39;s services.</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:53:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>VA Loan for Home Improvement</title>
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    <description>If you are a military veteran who is seeking financing assistance in the form of VA loans you may want to consider a VA home improvement loan. 

Obviously, these types of loans will be primarily used to make needed repairs to an existing residence.  In most cases, a VA loan is a preferable alternative to traditional loans obtained for the same purposes because they are normally less expensive.  
These specific VA loans may be used for any repair or remodeling in your home. 

Veterans are able to borrow up to 90 per cent of their home equity to pay for almost any sort of home improvements.  Where only recently there were spending caps on these types of VA loans, of around $25,000, now veterans do not need to worry about these limits.  Rather than using a mortgage, you can obtain a loan of $3,000 or less with a simple guarantor.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:02:33 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Consolidation Loans</title>
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    <description>We have discussed consolidation loans a lot. They can be a useful means to help you manage your debt. They can also be a means to financial disaster.

Do not get a consolidation loan if your main thought is you want to be able to afford a big screen t.v. or another such item or items that you may want but cannot really afford.

You get the loan and your payments are now within your means. Then you figure you have additional money each month so you can easily afford that 60&quot; t.v. or a nice sun room. 

Now you have the payment for the consolidation loan and for the additional items and you may or may not stop there. Remember, you had to consolidate your loans because you began spending beyond your means. Learn from that and don&#39;t begin continuing the same habits that got you in this position in the first place.

Work on paying off the consolidation loan early. I can&#39;t stress that enough. Making minimum payments will ensure you never pay off that loan. Pay it off as soon as possible and don&#39;t incur any unnecessary loans during this time.</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:46:07 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>125 Second Mortgage</title>
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    <description>A 125 Second Mortgage - Pros and Cons</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:47:38 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>A Consolidation Loan May Be a Necessity</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/consolidation-loan.html</link>
    <description>A consolidation loan may be a necessity to save you financially</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:24:55 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Foreclosure properties can make great rental properties</title>
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    <description>When you pick up a property for a low fee and then turn around and rent it out, you can have the mortgage payment covered and turn a profit. In a few years, you can flip that house and make a killing on the deal.

Its a great idea to check out foreclosure listings and subscribe to news about the industry in order to keep your options open for future investments. So many of the wealthy in the US have made the lions share of their money on real estate. 

Not to mention consider looking into a foreclosure property when you decide to purchase a home of your own.</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:25:51 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Mortgage Calculator</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/mortgage-calculator.html</link>
    <description>Mortgage Calculator</description>
    <pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 14:53:50 GMT</pubDate>
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    <title>Home Equity Refinancing</title>
    <link>http://www.loansopedia.com/home-equity-refinancing.html</link>
    <description>Home Loan Refinancing</description>
    <pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 13:19:37 GMT</pubDate>
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