Help! What to Do When the Economy Hits Home.

• Foreclosure Help

  • Unemployment and Foreclosure: If You Don't Have a Job, How Will You Pay the Mortgage?

    Each week, I receive dozens of letters from readers. The vast majority of them are in trouble financially, mostly because they've lost their job and can't pay their bills. more

  • Tips of the day: Avoid these mortgage and foreclosure scams Photos

    If you're falling behind on your mortgage, others may know it, too -- including con artists and scam artists. Potential victims are easy to find. more

  • Pitfalls of trying mortgage restructuring

    Ray Rodriguez's mortgage bank told him in March he's eligible for a government-supported mortgage loan restructuring that would make his monthly mortgage payments affordable, clear his loan's delinquent status and let him keep his family in their home. more

  • New wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming

    Call it son of subprime. Experts warn that a new wave of mortgage foreclosures may be coming soon and could rival the default rates for subprime mortgages and slow efforts to find bottom in a prolonged national housing slump. more

• Renter's Guide

  • Is it legal to charge 'pet rent'?

    QI'm interested in a rental that describes the rent in an odd way: First, the advertisement lists the rent, then it adds "pet rent." Is this legal? more

  • When landlords default

    Renters aren't immune to the heartache of foreclosure. When their landlords default on the mortgage, tenants could be squeezed out of a place to live. But often renters aren't aware of their rights in these situations. more

  • Foreclosure crisis creates unique hardships for renters Photo

    After working a full day and tending to her three children, the last thing Latasha Jones felt like doing was making the rounds in her apartment complex to collect contributions for the building's water bill. But she had no choice _ the landlord, in foreclosure, had abandoned the building and stopped... more

  • Should you rent or buy during difficult economic times? Photo

    Surely we've learned a thing or two from the sub-prime mortgage crisis: Don't buy a home for $500,000 when you can only afford half that, no matter what mortgage lenders tell you. more