by Sarah Poriss | Dec 20, 2017 | Debt, Got Debt?, Stuff you may not know
So now, as an infallible way of making little ease great ease, I began to contract a quantity of debt. ~ Charles Dickens, Great Expectations Where would Charles Dickens have been without debt? Where would English Lit, Hollywood, and Christmas be without Dickens? The...
by Sarah Poriss | Oct 13, 2017 | Got Debt?
An Excerpt from Got Debt? Recently, I was sort of interviewed about what I do. My neighbors asked me to pick up their 12-year-old son from school, he was getting home late from a field trip to Boston, they were tied up at work and in meetings, and I was available to...
by Sarah Poriss | Sep 30, 2017 | Debt, Got Debt?
From Got Debt, Dispatches from the Front Lines of America’s Financial Crisis The more I work with people with debt, the more patterns I see. This has been an interesting way to observe that the psychology of having debt that can’t be repaid is almost universal...
by Sarah Poriss | May 7, 2017 | Got Debt?, Stuff you may not know
After the House vote on the Health Care bill Thursday – you may have heard about it, it’s been mentioned on a couple of TV shows – my friend and associate, Donna Convicer, received a series of phone calls from friends and clients. They were upset,...
by Sarah Poriss | Dec 8, 2016 | Foreclosure, Got Debt?
We love Christmas, love the holiday season, so please take the following in the spirit in which it is written. To all our clients and clients to be, who are thinking of presents under the tree instead putting the December mortgage payment in the mail. ‘Twas the night...
by Sarah Poriss | Nov 27, 2016 | Debt, Got Debt?, Stuff you may not know
In Sunday’s New York Times, Jake Halpern revisited collection agencies. Not the collection agencies you’d normally think of, but the collections agencies that buy old debt and go after it with a vengence, They buy it for pennies on the dollar, use boiler...