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*Note: This was written by a Yahoo! contributor. Do you have a small business story that you’d like to share? Sign up with the Yahoo! Contributor Network to start publishing your own finance articles. In a poor economy when unemployment is high, many people turn to starting their own home-based business. Because of hard times, however, having all the office tools and storage for your office may    .. more …

ALMA ” Seven years ago, Cheryl Brown was looking for a way tomake money from home.She was raising six children and home schooling them, so therewas no time left for a traditional job, and she had to get a littlecreative.”I had gotten several compliments on my carrot cake, so Idecided to start making cakes for a little extra cash,” Brownsaid.After several test runs making cakes for friends, Brown    .. more …

What About Assets? Assets are things you own. If you own a significant amount of property, personal items, expensive jewelry, electronics or numerous vehicles, you may lose some of them in the process of going bankrupt. Here is why. The goal of the trustee that works for the courts is to liquidate, or to sell all of you excessive assets and use the funds to repay any or all of your debt. This    .. more …

To help readers of The Choice navigate the maze of scholarships available to them – as well as to further their understanding of President Obama’s recent proposal to ease the repayment of some student loans – Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert and founder of the Web sites finaid.org and fastweb.com , is spending this week in our virtual Guidance Office. Mr. Kantrowitz is the author of    .. more …

The two-hour workshops are: Advanced Grant Writing, at 9 a.m. ; Profit or Nonprofit? at noon; and Art of the Ask at 5 p.m. Held at the Custom House Maritime Museum at 150 Bank St. in New London, they cost $65 each, or two for $100.Grayson is a speaker, author, fundraising consultant and former insurance executive and urban planner. Previously a partner in Focus Fundraising, she has helped with    .. more …

~li~ I don’t want to file for bankruptcy because I’ll lose everything. Yes, if you have a lot of assets, chances are you will lose most of them. After all, your creditors do have a right to get at least some of their money back. But you won’t lose everything. “This fear-mongering is often disseminated by credit collections people who want to frighten you into paying them rather than seeking the    .. more …

The money lenders shrink away from people who are suffering from their past credit mistakes due to the risk factor involved. For such kind of people, loans for bad credit instant decision ( ) have been designed. By going for this option, the borrower can get hold of funds for use sans credit check trouble. The money would come easily.The borrower can avail funds that fall in the range of 1000 to    .. more …

What if we, as a community, could scrounge up $563 million for some kind of worthwhileproject? A little health care for poor kids or a new police officer or two? Filling a pothole or adding a day of library service? No? Then how about a cool $563 million to put into the deficit reduction pot? Or a grotesque tax cut for the rich, so they’ll start creating jobs for usagain?I’m just asking: Anything    .. more …

While continuing to pay down their debts, U.S. consumers are also looking into opening more credit card accounts than they have in the past year, according to a new Federal Reserve report released Monday. The New York Fed’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit shows a continuation in the third quarter of 2011 of some of the personal finance trends that have taken hold since the    .. more …

First National Community Bank has a new president and chief executive.Dunmore-based First National Community Bancorp Inc., the bank’s parent, announced the appointment Wednesday of Steven R. Tokach as president and CEO.The bank, which has struggled with financial losses and the glare of federal regulatory scrutiny, has operated for 18 months with an interim leader since former president and chief    .. more …