Library: English | Credit Reports and Credit Scores . Your credit history has a significant impact on your ability to achieve important financial goals. Learn what information is collected about you, how to interpret and improve it, and what your rights are. Category: Credit Credit Reports Credit Scores Mortgages on Oct 01, 2010

Library: English | Consumer Reports and Specialty Reports . Companies use consumer and specialty reports, much like credit reports, to determine such things as how likely you are to be a good employee, become ill or file an insurance claim. You have the right to see what is collected about you and to dispute inaccurate information. Category: Credit Credit Reports Credit Scores on Oct 01, 2010

Library: English | Money Management 1-2-3: THREE: Planning a Secure Future . The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Planning a Secure Future focuses on leaving the workforce, retirement, winding down, cutting back, downsizing, living on a reduced budget, using credit wisely, investing for income, Medicare and reverse mortgages. Topics include debt and collections, being underinsured, bankruptcy, medical expenses, estate planning, home equity loans. Category: Money Management Mortgages on Sep 24, 2010

Library: English | Money Management 1-2-3: TWO: Achieving Financial Goals . The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Achieving Financial Goals focuses on recovering from youthful missteps, managing family finances and insurance issues such as homeowner’s, health and life insurance. Topics include budgeting and money management, insurance, saving and building assets, saving for retirement, renting v. homeownership, homeownership, mortgages and investing. Category: Money Management Mortgages on Sep 24, 2010

Library: English | Money Management 1-2-3: ONE: Getting a Strong Start . The “Money Management 1-2-3: Be Smart about Money All Your Life” series focuses on basic money skills at the beginner, intermediate and advanced level. Getting a Strong Start addresses how to manage money, use credit wisely and live within your means. Topics include setting up a bank account, learning about credit, building a credit history, using credit cards, budgeting and saving, and working and career. Category: Money Management Mortgages on Sep 24, 2010

Library: English | Good Credit - Leader’s Guide . A guide to help community-based organization staff educate their clients about credit. Topics include credit reports, credit history, establishing good credit, credit scoring, credit fraud and more. Category: Credit Credit Fraud Credit Reports Credit Scores on Sep 20, 2010

Library: English | Managing Your Money - Leader’s Guide . This guide can help you become a money management mentor. Once you understand the basics of money management, you'll be able to help others learn techniques that can make an important difference in their finances. Category: Money Management on Sep 19, 2010

Library: English | Successful Homeownership - Leader’s Guide . Buying a home is a major achievement. But successful homeownership does not begin and end when the closing documents are signed. This Leader’s Guide provides information and background to help you teach prospective, new and established homeowners what they need to know to be successful at homeownership. Category: Foreclosure Housing Buying a Home Housing Insurance Insurance on Sep 19, 2010

Library: English | Keeping Your Home - Protect your investment (English) . People who plan, budget and save for successful homeownership have a much better chance of keeping a roof over their heads and building wealth as property values increase over the years. This brochure covers the financial responsibilities of homeownership and how to manage them, how to maintain and protect your property, and how to build and preserve your home equity. Category: Foreclosure Housing Buying a Home Housing Insurance Insurance on Sep 17, 2010

Library: English | Buying a Home - Leader’s Guide . The Buying a Home Leaderʼs Guide provides detailed information, written in question-and-answer format, to help teach potential homebuyers how to navigate the often complex process of purchasing a home. The guide covers such topics as how to choose a real estate professional, how to qualify for a mortgage, and what is involved in the settlement (closing) process. It also explains unfamiliar terms and provides tips and suggestions to help the purchase process go more smoothly. Category: Housing Buying a Home Home Financing Mortgages on Sep 17, 2010