Topic: Fresno

Mortgage fraud strikes Valley homeowners

Patty and Jody Farmer were hooked when a Rancho Cordova-based company offered to help refinance their adjustable-rate mortgage, which was about to become unaffordable. Instead, their lender foreclosed on their Fresno home of 11 years, and they were forced to move out. ...

Reasons To Avoid Bankruptcy

At first glance, this may seem a pointless topic for an article. Even as a form of speech ? being morally or spiritually ?bankrupt? ? the notion?s hardly complimentary.Nevertheless, as spiraling bills force more and more borrowers to sadly ponder what would?ve ...
Although bankruptcy law is the same across the U.S., there are various branches of bankruptcy courts in different regions in each state across the country where bankruptcies can be filed. For anyone living in Fresno, California, the local court is the Eastern ...

5 ways to pump up your savings

Unless your savings were stashed under the proverbial mattress, they almost certainly took a hard hit this past year. We saved less than 2 percent of our earnings last year, for example, compared with a savings rate of more than 12 percent ...