Buying furniture has always been a perilous, complex affair. There are loads of places you can get your furniture from, for example, you can get your furniture from somewhere like furniture in fashion. You don’t buy a couch the way you buy a television or a laptop computer. You can’t [Keep reading]
In many parts of the country, housing prices gave returned to pre-recession levels. That’s good news for sellers, bad news for buyers. But buried within the latest housing data is some good news for everyone — everyone on Main Street, anyway. All-cash buyers seem to be finally retreating. The percent [Keep reading]
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It’s a basic tenet of billing practices, debt collection, and fairness — if someone sends you a bill, and you think it’s wrong, you have the right to dispute it and get a prompt response. It’s also federal law. Except Tenet Healthcare, through a firm that handles some of its [Keep reading]
Consumers routinely share their online banking passwords with third-party apps that help with everything from budgeting to tax preparation. Apparently banks would like this to stop. JPMorgan Chase posted this notice on its website in April: “If you give out your chase.com User ID and Password, you are putting your [Keep reading]
PayPal has backed down on its robocalling and robotexting policy. The online money company sent a letter to the Federal Communications on Monday saying it will change its terms of service to clarify when it will use automated calls or texts, and offer an easy way for users to opt out of [Keep reading]
Welcome to the marriage penalty, gay couples! And the end of the health care benefit tax penalty, along with added Social Security benefits — at least in the 13 states where gay marriage wasn’t formerly legally recognized. While emotions overflow about today’s Supreme Court ruling, it’s easy to overlook the real-world [Keep reading]
UPDATED: Third party blamed for unauthorized access. Some Expedia.com customers are getting emails from the firm warning that a would-be criminal has obtained “unauthorized access … (to) your name, phone number, email address and travel booking.” The details are being used in an attempt to trick customers into sharing even more [Keep reading]
Co-signers for private student loans have had significant difficulty handing off the obligation to the primary borrower, despite what the lenders’ marketing materials say, according to a report issued Thursday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Of those who applied for release from their co-signing agreement, 90% were rejected, the [Keep reading]
Can someone cash a check you’ve written more than once? Yes, thanks to the intersection of very old and very new banking technology. Impossible until recently – payees formerly were required to hand paper checks over to banks during a deposit – some experts predict “double presentment” will be the [Keep reading]
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