From the Credit and Debt Solutions Dept

My post yesterday explained the pro-active strategy of identity theft protection, namely, to freeze your credit.  In part I wrote, "You can actually freeze your credit so no one can open any form of credit in your name.  Your credit file is off limits to potential lenders, insurers and credit offers unless you instruct the credit bureaus to lift the freeze when necessary.  You'll even get rid of all those junk mail offers, too. With a credit lock-down, a criminal can have your name, birthday and Social …

From the Bad Credit Repair and Debt Elimination Strategies Dept
Have you heard the news this week - about the headaches the retailer that owns the T.J. Maxx and Marshall's clothing chains is experiencing, namely nearly 46 million customer card numbers were stolen from it computers over an 18-month period?

Also, the retailer operates other store chains in North America and the U.K., and said 455,000 customers who returned merchandise without receipts had their personal data stolen, including driver's license numbers.
Why Identity Theft Protection Is a "Must Have It" Strategy
 
My primary interest is …

Real estate housing market update
Lennar Profits Plunge 73%

Lennar Corp., the largest U.S. homebuilder by revenue, said earnings plummeted 73% during the first quarter as demand waned in the worst housing slump in more than a decade.
Net income for the three months ended Feb. 28 declined to $68.6 million, or 43 cents a share, from $258.1 million, or $1.58, a year earlier, the Miami-based company said today in a statement. Lennar said the normally stronger spring selling season had not materialized. Shares fell as much as 3.7 percent before the opening …

Real estate housing market update
New Home Sales Continue To Fall

US NEW HOME SALES DATA just released today reveals sales of new single family homes fell further by -3.9% to an 848,000 unit selling pace last month. New home sales fell off the map in January, down -15.8%. The consensus had looked for a rebound but homebuilders have been warning against such optimism.
The real test of demand in terms of a bottom comes in the key spring selling season. Guidance by many homebuilders has been cautious at best.
The supply of …

From the Real Estate Investment Help Center
Spotlight on State of Kansas Real Estate
 

The most overvalued real estate markets in the United States, I affectionately call Bubbleville, recorded much higher price increases during the first quarter of 2006 than the least overvalued markets, I term as Bargaintown. 
This is according to a recent 2006 survey conducted by National City Corp, one of the nation's top 10 mortgage lenders and Global Insight, a financial information provider.
53 cities are "extremely overvalued," says major lender
"Things are suddendly looking very chilly indead in four coastal cities - Boston, Washington, …