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Credit cards can be a tempting trap for college students (Austin American-Statesman)

As the Credit Bureaus did not lend you money, they are not as concerned as you if the information they have is correct or not. They are only paid to store the information.

Credit cards can be a tempting trap for college students (Austin American-Statesman)

Issuers are keen for extravagant spenders, parents' bailouts. They remember their first love, their first car and — if financial institutions have it right — their first credit card.

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Step-by-step guide to better credit (Orange County Register)

"We'll have to run your credit report." If those words spook you more than any horror movie, your credit is probably a little scary. Maybe it's downright horrifying.

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Drowning in debt? Lifeguard is CCCS (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

The good news for the Consumer Credit Counseling Service is it's hiring like crazy. The bad news is, it has to do that. Since it set up a new hotline Jan. 31, the Atlanta-based nonprofit has been overwhelmed by desperate homeowners across the country teetering on the brink of foreclosure as the subprime mortgage industry implodes.

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Debt-ridden homeowners get a helping hand (North County Times)

OCEANSIDE ---- Working with lenders or filing bankruptcy could allow financially troubled homeowners to keep their property, real estate professionals, attorneys and counselors said Saturday.

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Getting carded at college (Denver Post)

They remember their first love, their first car and, if financial institutions have it right, their first credit card.

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Real estate: Heart & home (Florida Today)

Mercedes Homes, its employees and subcontractors work to help get local heart-lung transplant recipient through his recovery.

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NWA claims to have 70,000 potential flight attendants (Pioneer Press)

Despite contracts that were renegotiated to include large pay cuts, Northwest Airlines says it isn't having trouble finding applicants for pilot and flight attendant jobs.

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More than 8 million Britons will be deemed credit risks by 2011 (Independent)

After the credit crunch - the consumer crunch. Our live-now-pay-later habits are leaving us increasingly unable to service onerous financial commitments, according to the independent research group Datamonitor. Its research suggests that those "systematically denied credit by mainstream lenders" will increase from seven million to 8.6 million by 2011, one in four of the working population.

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Real estate: H2Ohhh (Florida Today)

A South Merritt Island riverfront home was meant to be the owner's dream home, but relocation has prompted a sale. It is being offered for sale at $1.95 million.

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Mortgages much harder to get (Dallas Morning News)

Gone are the days of easy money. In their place: tighter requirements that are making things tough on buyers.

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Credit cards can be a tempting trap for college students (Austin American-Statesman)

If the account is now paid off, but was seriously past due at one time, DO NOT write that it's not your account. Instead, write that it is your account but was NEVER past due and you need it updated to say that everything has always been current.

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