Credit report
What are We Complaining about?
The Federal Trade Commission yesterday released its annual report (click here to download the report) on top consumer complaints for 2006. The report found that for the seventh year in a row, “identity theft tops the list, accounting for 36 percent of the 674,354 complaints received between January 1 and December 31, 2006.” And consumers [...]
Free Credit Report Time
For the past several years, we have been getting a copy of free credit report every 4 months (as NJ residents, we were eligible for a free report every year well before the law mandated a free credit report from all three credit agencies for everybody every 12 months). The last time I ordered a [...]
Free Equifax Credit Alerts for Paypal Users
Last night when I logged into my Paypal account to do some transfers, I noticed this new service before I went to my account page:
Get a Free Credit Report Every Four Months
With the amendment to the federal Fair Credit Reporting, getting a free credit report has never been easier. Now everybody is eligible for one free credit report from each of the three credit agencies (Equifax, Experian, and TransUnion) every 12 months (has to be exactly 365 days, not even one day earlier, or you will [...]
Lost in Transportation
After the phone call, I felt very bad. I really shouldn’t have been cheap.
Here’s what happened.
Early this month, I filled the paper work to move part of my Roth IRA assets from Scottrade to Vanguard. At the same time, my wife also submitted her application for transferring two Vanguard funds as well. Both applications [...]
