This guest post was written by Go Banking Rates, bringing you informative personal finance content and helpful tools, as well as the best interest…

This guest post was written by Go Banking Rates, bringing you informative personal finance content and helpful tools, as well as the best interest…

Five years ago at the peak of the housing market, my husband received a call out of the blue from a mortgage broker. He…

I recently read an article on MSN.com about underwater homeowners that made me a little angry. First, the article’s focus was on a young…

Though only five miles apart, the scenes from my current neighborhood and the one I grew up in are worlds apart. The “Valley”, once known as a rustic get-away for the celebrities of yester-year, has grown into a hodge-podge of seedy neighborhoods intermixed with a “good” pocket every now and again. The valley is perplexing; a large, flat sprawling suburb built on a seemingly-endless grid system bordered with rolling hills and mountains. Without the obvious barriers, the cities merge into one another with barely a marker to distinguish you’ve entered into a new zip code.