Auto Finance

In Part I of our Follow the Money report, we discussed the need for a personal spending plan. In Part II, we’ll put that plan to work. First, congratulations. You are definitely in the minority of people who actually map…

I like to read mystery novels, usually involving “Who done it?” To solve that question, most of the time you need to follow the money. The same can be said about your own personal spending plan. (Notice I didn’t use…

Bad credit* is at least a temporary fact of life for many people. But life goes on, work goes on, as does the need for a vehicle to get you where you need to go. For most people with bad…

It just doesn’t seem fair. Your credit score was dinged by recent, unpaid medical expenses or an error on your credit report, and now you’re having a hard time getting a loan for a car you need to get to…

Nobody’s credit is perfect. Well, almost nobody’s. If you are even close to the top FICO score of 850, you probably don’t have to worry much about whether you can get a car loan, how much you can borrow or…

You could be paying hundreds to several thousand dollars more per year in interest on your auto financing for the bumps and bruises reflected in your credit score. And the bigger the bruises, the more you pay for lenders’ perceptions…