Debt Consolidation and Personal Finances: Learn the Truth!

An inability to manage credit, growing debt and bankruptcy are all major problems today. On an average day, over 8,000 people file bankruptcy in the United States alone. The Internet is rife with companies that promise help and salvation; to the uninitiated, their words and assurances prey upon those wanting a painless solution.

The January post-holiday credit card bills are often the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back, where families now have to face the problem of how to pay for the holiday gifts and celebrations without sliding further into debt.

Avoiding these problems, and recovering from overwhelming debt, are what Real Life Debt.com is all about: it's a resource site that's dedicated to helping you learn about your options with credit card debt, debit cards, debt management, debt counseling, privacy, deciding about bankruptcy (and the different types of bankruptcy), and more.

Founder Dave Taylor explains "As a private, independent initiative, we're sure that you'll find Real Life Debt.com to be an excellent resource for understanding and managing your own financial issues. To ensure accuracy, the materials on this site are all from the United States government: one goal of Real-Life-Debt.com is to help people find the excellent material produced by the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Reserve, Consumer Information Center, and similar organizations."

In addition, Real Life Debt also features a weblog (a "blog") with postings from different individuals who share their own challenges managing their personal finances, including bankruptcy, credit card penalties, and much more.

Real Life Debt is an unbiased source of credit card, debt management, privacy and bankruptcy information, without commercial sponsors or a sales pitch. To ensure accuracy, much of the material is from U.S. government sites.

Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980. He's written sixteen technical and business books including the best-selling "Creating Cool Web Sites", and his most recent projects are startup 101 info and Ask Dave Taylor.

In The News:


Union Bank completes farm-loan waiver, relief programme
Hindu Business Line, India - Jun 30, 2008
MUMBAI: State-run, Union Bank of India, said on Monday that it has completed the implementation of farm loan debt waiver and relief scheme announced in the ...

Himachal government urges to Centre to look into debt relief ...
myHimachal, India - Jul 3, 2008
by MH News Network Prem Kumar Dhumal, the Chief Minister has asked for removal of numerous anomalies in the Agriculture Debt Waiver and Debt Relief ...

Central Bank gears up to implement loan waiver scheme
Navhind Times, India - Jul 3, 2008
... machinery for the implementation of Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme 2008, in letter and spirit, informs a press release issued here. ...

Banks in JK identify 34000 beneficiaries for debt relief
GreaterKashmir.com (press release), India - Jul 3, 2008
Srinagar, July 3: The third meeting of the Steering Committee of SLBC on monitoring progress in implementation of the Agriculture Debt Waiver/ Debt Relief ...

Corporation Bank issues certificates under Waiver Scheme
Moneycontrol.com (press release), India - Jul 3, 2008
Corporation Bank has commenced issue of certificates to the farmer beneficiaries of the Agricultural Debt Waiver and Debt Relief Scheme announced by the ...

SyndBank to waive Rs 1063 cr farm loan
Business Standard, India - Jul 2, 2008
Syndicate Bank is waiving agriculture debt amounting to Rs 1063 crore as part of the implementation of agricultural debt waiver and debt relief scheme 2008. ...

Debt relief Waiving, not drowning
Economist, UK - Jul 3, 2008
In Sikandrabad one farmer could not quite believe that the pink slip he had been given released him from 25000 rupees of debt. But others did not get the ...

CARICOM advised on strategy for debt relief requests
Caribbean360.com, Barbados - Jul 4, 2008
They do not have the instruments available to them to give debt-relief to middle-income countries," he said at the 29th Heads of Government Summit in ...

Dhumal writes to FinMin for debt relief anomalies
Business Standard, India - Jul 3, 2008
... has sought removal of numerous anomalies in the Union government's debt relief scheme so that majority of farmers of the hill state could be benefitted. ...

Syndicate bank extends debt waiver relief to 3.93-lakh farmers
Hindu, India - Jul 2, 2008
The bank said it is confident of completing the total process of handing over debt waiver and debt relief certificates to the eligible farmers latest by ...
Kerala banks display debt waiver lists Business Standard
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