Negative EquityHow does negative equity end up happening with a vehicle? If you own a vehicle that’s financed, you probably have discovered you have negative equity, meaning that you owe more than the vehicle’s worth. How does that happen, and what do you do about it? Well, first we’ll talk about how it happens. Then […]
What is a Stolen Inheritance?So what is a stolen inheritance? A stolen inheritance is when a person is deceased and they direct assets or money or any type of value through their will to go to certain people and other people take more than their fair share or maybe more than they were supposed to […]
Negative Equity in CarsMore and more consumers are upside down or underwater or out of equity on their cars and it’s starting to show up in major news stories across the country. Here’s one that talks about somebody who is $29,000 out of equity, meaning that they owe $29,000 more than their car is worth. […]
Samsung’s Breakthrough in Electric Vehicle Battery TechnologySo here is quite an update in the electric vehicle technology industry. Samsung has announced they have created an electric vehicle battery that has a 600 mile range. Now that’s farther range than a lot of gasoline cars have. You can charge it in 9 minutes, that’s about the […]
The Persistence of Online ScamsVarious online scams and Ponzi schemes have been around for centuries, hundreds of years. There’s no letting up. We investigate hundreds of them on a regular basis, and the creativity of the scammers is unlimited. One of the things that we see is a lot of patterns in these scams. For […]
Are Condos the New Timeshares?So here’s an interesting question for the real estate industry, especially in Florida: Are condos the new timeshares? Meaning that for a long time, timeshares were a desirable way of getting a property that you could use for a certain purpose, for less money than a typical single-family home or typical […]
Liens and JudgmentsSo you have some type of lien against you. Maybe it’s a lawsuit judgment, a court judgment, maybe it’s a phantom lien on your real estate, maybe it’s a prior second mortgage or home equity loan that became a zombie loan. It disappeared and went dead for a while, now it’s back to […]
What is Adverse Possession?So what is adverse possession and how does it affect real estate? How does it allow you to gain real estate or put your property at risk by losing real estate? Adverse possession is a legal term which involves the use of a property over a certain period of time and certain […]
Homebuilders in a Privileged PositionWe’ve talked quite a bit on this channel about how homebuilders and developers have really been in a good privileged position in the housing market over the last two or three years and the fact that interest rates are going to drop a little bit here in the next few months […]
More drama from titling authorities on these Japanese mini trucks and Japanese mini cars. This is a great article from ARS Technica, which is a very competent, qualified, and highly respected resource on a lot of things automotive. They’re saying that these Japanese mini cars and mini trucks are a death trap, and they talk […]
