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Getting a Mortgage After a Short Sale or Foreclosure
The housing bubble triggered foreclosures to hundreds of thousands of distressed homeowners all over our nation. If you experienced a...
Keith Gantenbein
Jul 14, 2016


International Businesses- At Risk? French Tax Authorities Go After Major Businesses
Our own IRS isn’t the only entity to fear when it comes to taxes. Europe has their eye on international businesses as well as wanting...
Keith Gantenbein
Jun 23, 2016


Signs The Real Estate Bubble Is About To Burst- Again
The number of luxury homes sitting on the global market and not selling is beginning to pile up. It may also be a forewarning of the...
Keith Gantenbein
Jun 13, 2016


Tax Tips For Starting Your Own Business
If you’re starting a new business, the tax obligations aren’t something you should try to handle alone. Meeting with a qualified tax and...
Keith Gantenbein
Jun 6, 2016


Mortgage Foreclosure and Survivors' Rights
California is a step closer to signing a bill into law to protect families from foreclosure after the death of the primary mortgage note...
Keith Gantenbein
May 31, 2016


Timeshare Horror Stories
Timeshares came into being during the early 1960s in England where people would share a holiday (vacation) home. The sharing typically...
Keith Gantenbein
May 18, 2016

Shutting Down Illegal Student Loan Relief Schemes
On March 15th, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) requested that a federal district court enter a final judgment and order...
Keith Gantenbein
May 10, 2016

Are HARP And HAMP Ending This Year?
Are the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) and Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) really be ending at the end of this...
Keith Gantenbein
May 5, 2016


Want To Save A Ton Of Money? Hire An Attorney Instead Of A Realtor
When buying or selling real estate, normally a real estate agent is involved. In the past, one of the main reasons for using realtors...
Keith Gantenbein
Apr 29, 2016


New Student Loan Forgiveness
The Department of Education announced this week they will be sending letters to 387,000 people who have student loans telling them...
Keith Gantenbein
Apr 19, 2016


Life After Foreclosure- The Boomerang Buyers
The past seven years have been horrendous for millions of homeowners who lost their homes. Somewhere between 7 and 8 million homes were...
Keith Gantenbein
Apr 14, 2016


HOAs- What You Must Know First
When buying property under any kind of Homeowners Association (HOA) control, buyers tend to overlook or not comprehend the rules in a...
Keith Gantenbein
Apr 7, 2016


Succeeding in Business- What You Must Know
Are you thinking of starting your own business? Congratulations. Owning your own business may require working harder and longer hours but...
Keith Gantenbein
Mar 29, 2016


Save Big On Taxes With Charity-Related Donations
When doing your taxes, one of the deductions most overlooked are charitable contributions. You can deduct a maximum of up to 50% of your...
Keith Gantenbein
Mar 24, 2016


Goldman Sachs $1.5 Billion Mortgage Settlement Agreement
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. announced last week they had reached an agreement to resolve an ongoing investigation of the Residential...
Keith Gantenbein
Mar 17, 2016


The Tax Cometh- 3 Days Late
The IRS tax deadline for 2016 has moved three days. Due to an overlap of tax deadlines and Federal and State holidays, the IRS announced...
Keith Gantenbein
Dec 30, 2015


Student Loans Need Oversight
​Back in the day - when the predatory mortgage loans were being tossed out like candy, so were the student loans. It was easy to get a...
Keith Gantenbein
Oct 13, 2015


Death Of A City
Housing prices have plummeted in the last year in Ferguson, Missouri. The average home sold for $66,764 in 2014. In the last three months...
Keith Gantenbein
Sep 29, 2015


Nationstar Providing Millions of Dollars to Milwaukee Homeowners
Nationstar Mortgage will be providing up to $30 million dollars to distressed Milwaukee homeowners under a special agreement with the...
Keith Gantenbein
Sep 2, 2015


What's Happening with Foreclosures?
What is happening with foreclosures? This last quarter, the national average length of time to begin and end a foreclosure was the...
Keith Gantenbein
Aug 21, 2015
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