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Managing Debt for Dummies

by John Ventura and Mary Reed

This practical guide gives you simple, effective methods for paying off your bills as quickly as possible and getting your finances back on track. You'll find proven strategies for slashing spending, consolidating debts, dealing with collectors, handling high-risk debt such as a mortgage or car loan, and avoiding future debt problems.

Zero Debt: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Freedom

by Lynnette Khalfani-Cox

In Zero Debt, you’ll discover how to get annoying creditors off your back, insider secrets to reduce interest rates or eliminate credit card late fees, your legal rights and what bill collectors can and can not do under the law, the best strategies to clean up your credit report or fix errors in your credit file, and how to make lifestyle changes that will save you money for decades to come. This book is your step-by-step plan. It’s simple and easy to understand.

Solve Your Money Troubles: Debt, Credit & Bankruptcy

by Robin Leonard and John Lamb

If you feel powerless under the weight of your bills, this book will give you strength and the skills needed to respond to bill collectors and to rebuild your credit and, just as important, your self esteem. This touches on all aspects of personal debt, and helps with all the strategies (including worksheets) necessary to get out of debt and rebuild your credit.

The Insider’s Guide to Credit Repair

by K. E. Varner

The Insider’s Guide to Credit Repair begins with the basics-defining credit, explaining its value to consumers and businesses, and introducing the key parties that keep the process successfully operating—but then covers more complex topics, including credit laws, credit scoring, credit repair and identity theft. Most noteworthy and helpful are the short quizzes after each chapter, a comprehensive glossary, and a wide variety of sample letters.

How to Settle Your Debts

by Norman H. Perlmutter

How To Settle Your Debts is an all-inclusive enlightening guide to help individuals, families and small businesses eliminate debt without bankruptcy, debt consolidation and the damage they can cause. You learn how to legitimately eliminate debt and totally improve your life while maintaining your dignity and your reputation. How To Settle Your Debts is written in an informal style and an outline format to promote understanding and ease of reading. With its comprehensive index, it can be used as a reference manual as well as a do-it-yourself guide. It is for all those whose debts continue to grow and whose lives are being shattered by them.

How to Get Out of Debt, Stay Out of Debt, and Live Prosperously

by Jerrold Mundis

Jerrold Mundis writes in a friendly, engaging style, urging readers to stop the cycle of spending. Mundis knows what he's talking about. He, too, was once thousands of dollars in debt and didn't know where to turn. Anecdotes from Debtors Anonymous folks, plus multiple examples from the writer's own life and ledgers, make How to Get Out of Debt an encouraging read, not a condescending one. Once you start your program, you may want to periodically reread some chapters for inspiration and fun.

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