All posts by Steve Rhode

About Steve Rhode

Steve Rhode is the Euro-Video and has been helping good people with bad debt problems since 1994. You can learn more about Steve, here.

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  My Daughter Has a DWI and My Auto Insurance Rates are Sky High

  Question: Dear Steve, I have gone to several brokers including mine since Mercury Insurance does not have its own brokers per say. My broker has tried in vain to try and get my insurance down. Unfortunately, my...

  • Posted June 21, 2018
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  Can I Get Out of Debt Because of My Concussion?

  Question: Dear Steve, I have been in debt before and got out so I am upset with myself for this. I had a major concussion 3 years ago, and I went through brain retraining 2017/2018 and my...

  • Posted June 21, 2018
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  I Can’t Get a Straight Answer About What is Going On With Ameritech and the FTC

  Question: Dear Steve, Are you familiar with Ameritech? I can’t seem to get an answer from anyone there as to the status of things in general. My daughter has paperwork with them and we I don’t know...

  • Posted June 21, 2018
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  Educational Financial Services and Wells Fargo Bank Hit With Class Action Student Loan Lawsuit to Discharge Loans in Bankruptcy

  Educational Financial Services (EFS), a division of Wells Fargo Bank, was sued in the Southern District of Texas alleging EFS should have known some of their student loans were dischargeable in bankruptcy. The suit filed raises some...

  • Posted June 21, 2018
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  Business Debt Settlement Companies Settle Suits By Lenders

  A pair of business funding groups has been hammering business debt settlement companies in court. Yellowstone Capital, EBF Partners, and Everest Business Funding have been filing suits claiming the debt settlement companies have no right to get...

  • Posted June 20, 2018
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  Credit Scores Rise Dramatically After Filing Bankruptcy

  The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia did some research into the recovery of credit and credit scores following filing Chater 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy. As with most empirical research into bankruptcy, the truth of filing is...

  • Posted June 20, 2018
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  Scammed From Frontier Consumer Law Group

  Question: Dear Steve, SCAMMED FROM FRONTIER CONSUMER LAW GROUP I have been with a debt consolidation company for over a year now, I have paid them over $4000, and not one creditor has been paid yet. I...

  • Posted June 20, 2018
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  I’m a Partially Disabled Veteran Looking for Help With My Student Loan Debt

  Question: Dear Steve, I am inquiring about my student loan debt, so I recently filed chapter 13 and was told my student loan debt doesn’t qualify to file, I filed chapter 7 like 8 years ago, so...

  • Posted June 20, 2018
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  Reader Raises Concerns About Credit Repair Group Cyber Hack Notch

  A reader sent in the following information about a company that purports to be a credit repair company named Cyber Hack Notch. “This is a company I looked into to help with credit repair. Apparently, they use...

  • Posted June 19, 2018
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  Will I be Taxed on My Forgiven Student Loan Debt Under IBR or PSLF?

  Question: Dear Steve, I graduated from law school in 1995. I owed about $50,000 in student loans. I have been through bankruptcy twice, most recently in 2008. I went through some serious health issues. My loans were...

  • Posted June 18, 2018
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  I Got the Courage to File Bankruptcy and Now I Want to Rebuild My Credit While Living Outside the U.S.

  Question: Dear Steve, I just started the process of declaring bankruptcy and man, it’s taken a few years for me to even work up the courage to get to this point. For me, bankruptcy is a chance...

  • Posted June 18, 2018
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  I Served My County in Iraq But Drowning Under Student Loan Debt

  Question: Dear Steve, I am a disabled veteran (reason for discharge) that served in Iraq 2004. After returning home in an effort to deal with my post war struggles, I decided to go back to school to...

  • Posted June 18, 2018
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  Unlikely Pair of Senators Try to Do Something Reasonable on Student Loans

  Senators Marco Rubio and Elizabeth Warren introduced a new bill in Congress that would stop the insanity of suspending professional licenses over unpaid federal student loan debt. At least 20 states have laws on the books that...

  • Posted June 15, 2018
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  California Wins Forgiveness of Corinthian Colleges’ Private Student Loan Debt

  While the Department of Education seems to be marching backward to assist students defrauded by Corinthian Colleges schools the State of California has won forgiveness on private student loan debt for 35,000 students held by Balboa Student...

  • Posted June 15, 2018
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  Defendants Settle Allegations They Deceived Consumers Through Get-Rich-Quick Scheme

  Operators of a get-rich-quick scheme have agreed to a permanent ban on marketing or selling certain types of software as part of settlements with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that the defendants deceived consumers by falsely...

  • Posted June 14, 2018
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