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Consumers sometimes need professional help to qualify for a loan (Los Angeles Daily News)
At a time when even a blemish on a credit report can doom a car loan or a line of credit, consumers are flocking to credit repair companies for help in repairing the damage.
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Seven Common Credit Myths Dispelled (Carteret County News-Times)
(ARA) - With the economy reeling and home loan rates at a nine-month high, lenders are scrutinizing everyone's credit history like never before. Yet, many Americans don't realize the impact of late payments on their credit score and their finances.
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Credit crisis hitting auto dealerships hard (The Muskegon Chronicle)
By Chad D. Lerch and Brian McVicar | In the face of bank bailouts, lending rules are changing. Gone are the days -- possibly for good -- that customers with poor credit can get loans. Likewise, zero down-payment loans will be harder to find. Car dealers in Muskegon and Ottawa counties say the changes don't necessarily mean doom-and-gloom for their industry. But most dealerships are reporting ...
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Squeeze hits car loans; Local dealers say funds available for good credit (The Pantagraph)
The era of easy auto loans is skidding to a halt. Mortgages were among the first consumer products to be hit by the credit-market freeze. Now car loans and leases are drying up as dealers, auto-finance companies and other lenders are having trouble finding money to lend to car buyers.
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Cars For Girls: THE IN'S & OUT'S OF CO-SIGNING A CAR LOAN (The Auto Channel)
An unfortunate thing about being a teenager or a young adult is you're just not always taken very seriously. So attempting to make important decisions, like buying or what's also called financing a car, can be a difficult road to navigate.
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Program helps get drivers good car loans, rebuild bad credit (The Nashua Telegraph)
Every other month Trina Robinson was pouring money into repairs for her 10-year-old Chevy Lumina: $200 here, $300 there for failing ball joints, wheel bearings, struts. The costs -- $3,000 in one year alone -- were eating into her paycheck and running up the credit card bills. ... - By KATHY McCORMACK The Associated Press
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GMAC Now Officially Requires 700-Plus FICO Score For New Car Loan [Financiapocalypse] (Jalopnik)
The Financiapocalypse continues. We just received a copy of an e-mail that went out at GMAC, the lending arm jointly owned by GM and Cerberus, from Barbara Stokel, GMAC's EVP of North American...
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US Auto Loan Delinquencies On The Rise; $25 Billion Past-Due Study (Nasdaq)
DETROIT -(Dow Jones)- Auto loan delinquencies are on the rise as cash-strapped Americans increasingly struggle to repay car and truck loans, according to a study out Monday, the latest sign that the nation's economic woes are bleeding into the automotive finance business.
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More Money Down Creates Perfect Storm for Auto Industry and Car Shoppers; LeaseTrader.com Reports Rise in Activity as ... (Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance)
Consumers are now making larger down payments for vehicles when car shopping because of the tightening credit crunch. Cash-strapped consumers struggling with the current economic slide are finding it harder to shop for a vehicle because of the larger down payments required.
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Bad for GM, bad for you (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
If Wall Street's problems are getting most of the headlines now, debt problems for most of this decade have been posing a large and growing challenge to maintaining a traditional middle-class standard of living for ordinary Americans.
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