March 28th, 2011 
Amber Cook 
If you haven’t noticed, we’re in the midst of a recession – and like all the other times when the economy has taken a dive, crime rates go up. Although spending money on alarm systems may not seem like the highest priority in a time when people are trying to be as economical as possible, you might want to ask yourself if you could handle losing $2,000 right now. Why $2,000? Because that’s the average amount of money that is lost during a burglary these days. Even if you assume that your home will be burglarized within the next year and view the $2,000 as an opportunity cost for an alarm system, most systems will still run you over that amount within a year of service. However, instead of simply foregoing an alarm system, there are still ways to secure your home without a conventional home security system and the bills that they entail. Here ar Full Article
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Short Sales and Foreclosures Have Same Effect on Credit
Are you confronted with a possible short sale or foreclosure on your home? If so, you may be wondering how long it will take your FICO scores to FULLY recover after one of these bombshells hits your credit reports.
It’s a great question, and it happens to be one that we receive emails about every day. Well, now we have some hard data from FICO that finally helps clear up all the confusion around FICO scores, short sales, and foreclosures.
Check out this chart: Estimated Time for FICO Score to Fully Recover, which was released yesterday on one of FICO’s blogs.
Essentially, what FICO’s telling us is that if you have a good starting score (780), it will take your FICO score about 7 years to fully recover. In addition, there’s absolutely no difference in recovery time among short sales or foreclosures. The ove
Tags: Short, Short SalesAuto Car Loans
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Tags: LoansAsk Creditnet: Should I Cut My Credit Limit?
Dear Creditnet: My wife and I have excellent credit scores, but we used to only have one no annual fee credit card with a limit of $10,000 (balance is paid off each month).
I recently opened another credit card with better rewards and it has a $20,000 credit limit. I’ve been told not to close out our first credit card account, but should I lower the credit limit on it to somewhere around $500 since we won’t be using it?
Or will our credit scores be negatively affected by lowering our available credit limit from $30,000 to $20,500?
Answer: Thanks for your question, and congratulations on upgrading to a better rewards credit card!
Even though you don’t plan on using the old credit card much anymore, it would be best for your FICO scores to leave the account open with the same $10,000 credit limit. Don’t
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