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Where can I go? Who can help? What should I do? Surviving Financial Disasters provides complete, clear and informative answers to difficult financial questions. This book unveils information attorneys, creditors, lenders, and agents withhold from consumers. Includes more than 100 topics, samples, federal statues, forms, resources and CD ROM …. More >>
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There are three great books on the market today and I say don’t shop around any more. The two best bankruptcy books on the market have been written by women. I purchased Peggy Palm’s book first and found it very informative and insightful. I’m attempting to the stop foreclosure of my home. I then purchased Tiffany Love’s book, surviving financial disasters, to get the bankruptcy forms on CD Rom and then learned that she too filed for bankruptcy and included her legal pleadings. If you want to stop foreclosure, get Ms. Love’s book for sure as it is “hands on”, but I find myself frequently referring back to the information in Peggy’s to gain an additional perceptive. Money Troubles is another great book that provides wonderful information and exceeds the scope of Peggy’s book, because it covers everything inside and out of bankruptcy, like Tiffany’s book. Which some people I think may find too technical, but if you’re doing battle like I am with creditors the information is right on target. All three will cost you less than $100 far less than an attorney’s consultation fee. My verdict: Peggy’s book for the legal advice, Tiffany’s book for insight and roadmap, Money Trouble for everything else even after bankruptcy. The others are crap!
Rating: 5 / 5
Main reason for giving this book a good rating is that “she has been there”. It did not provide me with the advice/guidance I was seeking but did explore the bankruptcy process in a “hands on” manner. While this is an option for me, it is not one that I prefer to take. I owe people/companies money and I would like to pay them, at least a fair share of it.
Due to disabling illness I was suddenly without income. After exhausting savings, investments, etc. I had no income and borrowed from “Peter” to pay “Paul”. I don’t have budgeting or excessive spending problems. Needed experienced advice about dealing with a “Credit Counselor” and negotiating with creditors. While this book briefly covers those areas, I found no useful information. Now, with a small disability income I could afford to pay something toward these debts, but how and how much?
If you are buried under debt and are considering filing bankruptcy I recommend this book. If you are looking for alternative ways to get out from under, keep looking.
Rating: 3 / 5
Johnahtan Marshall October 30, 2004,
Very Easy To Read! Even for us Dummies.
I flipped through several books along this topic and by far this was easiest to read. Because the author actually experienced bankruptcy, it’s written from the perspective of a person in financial distress. I take my hat off to her for including the forms she filed in bankruptcy court. I also found the titles amusing such as ‘I’m Being Stalked By The Repo Man’. This book will get you out of tough financial times, and you wont feel like it’s as bad as what it feels.
Rating: 5 / 5
I appreciate all the responses from reviewers and readers. Having “survived” difficult financial challenges it’s important to me that you don’t feel alone. Those who are in a difficult way financially can effectively negotiate with lenders without having to file for bankruptcy. Depending on how much you owe to creditors and who they are (mortgage lender, credit card company, etc) the tactics vary.
Before I filed for bankruptcy; I informed the lenders of the pending filing and offered to settle and close accounts, all of the ones I contacted agreed. I sincerely care about my readers financial dilemmas and should you have any questions please contact me at the web site listed in the book. Best wishes, Tiffany Love
Rating: 5 / 5
After reading another customer review of this book I was so impressed that I ordered it with next day delivery. It sounded like exactly the kind of book I’ve been looking for. But I made the mistake of not reading an excerpt first and wound up wasting almost forty dollars.
This book is published by the author herself, which wouldn’t necessarily be a bad thing except for the fact that the text is riddled with elliptical and grammatical errors. Nearly every paragraph has at least one error in it. The printing quality is poor and fuzzy, looking as though it were taken from a bubble jet master copy. The listing of Federal court addresses goes for several pages and is broken into two columns. But apparently the page breaks were set up incorrectly because the listings go down column one all the way to the end of the section and then go to column two at the beginning of the same section.
I could have lived with even these errors since they’re just copy editing mistakes, but then I noticed other errors that made me wonder why this woman ever thought she could write any kind of book at all, let alone a technical book on a subject concerning the reader’s personal finances. For example, when writing about filing for bankruptcy without a lawyer, the author uses the term Gorilla Law. I think she may have meant Guerilla Law…
Would you take legal advice from a person who wrote like this? I hope not. The lesson I took is that I should never buy a book based solely on customer reviews. If I had taken the time to read an excerpt, I would have avoided a lot of frustration and wasted money.
Rating: 2 / 5