The Wall Street Journal recently published an article “That Offer to Make You Debt-Free? It Can Make You Worse Off.” I’ve long been critical that some personal loan offers being mailed to consumers are potentially a bait-and-switch tool to tell people they don’t qualify for a loan and instead are switched to an expensive debt …
I received two mailers from a reader as part of my I Buy Junk Mail program. These mailers are from GreenLink Financial and a few minutes of some basic looking around got me even more curious. The GreenLink Financial website looks like a personal loan site but I came across this perplexing statement on their …
Question: Dear Steve, I have a couple of strikes against me. First strike is that I have an ex-husband who sticks me with medical bills and our 3 children’s extra curricular activities. All are under ages 15. The 2nd is that I am a poor money manager. Before I knew it I was over my …