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Today on the Ilyce Glink Show, we talked about Integrity Bank, the Alpharetta, Ga.-based bank that failed on Friday. It was the 10th bank to fail this year. Regions Financial Corp has assumed the assets of Integrity Bank and all of its 5 branches will reopen on Tuesday as Regions Bank branches…
Topics: credit card debt
Think it's expensive to live in the U.S.? Try living abroad. I'm just back from a 12-day trip to Italy and the UK and I can tell you that it is frightfully expensive to travel abroad.
Museums cost $20 to $25 per person to enter (with a small discount sometimes for younger kids). Gas is $8 per gallon…
Topics: travel
During the first half of 2008, ending June 30, the number of consumer bankruptcies filed rose by 28.8 percent compared with the first half of 2007, reports the American Bankruptcy Institute.
There were 503,749 consumer bankruptcies filed in first half 2008; in first half 2007 there were 391,105…
Topics: credit card debt
We've recently been working on several stories about transfer on death deeds for real estate. A TOD deed allows you to transfer the title of a property into another's name without going through probate.
We've learned that 12 states now accept TOD deeds (or beneficiary deeds). They are:
Arizona…
Topics: real estate
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