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Welcome to the March 17, 2008 edition of credit report stories. This is a fairly new blog carnival that doesn’t have many submissions. The following are the submissions I found useful.

B. Duncan presents TV Station Puts Identity Theft Protection Companies to the Test posted at Identity Thoughts - Identity Theft Protection, Identity Theft Prevention. I thought this article was rather interesting. Apparently some identity theft alert services do work.

Raymond presents Best Business Credit Card For Your Small Business posted at Money Blue Book.

Jay Medina presents The easiest way to establish good credit posted at HelpfulAdvisor.com.

William Blake presents Are You Balancing Your Bank Statements Every Month? posted at Becoming Debt Free.

That concludes this extremely short edition of the article. Submit your blog article to the next edition of credit report stories using the carnival submission form if you have useful articles about credit cards, credit report, and identity theft!

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Wow, spring is almost upon us, and there are more San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble, too. This is the most distressed properties I have ever seen in a 4 week period. 135 properties is almost 30% of all the listings in our small county.

Total Count of San Mateo Home Sellers in Trouble for 2/11/2008 to 3/09/2008: 135

Average Time from Last Sale Date: 1.65 Years

Average Annualized Loss: 19.1%

Average Absolute Percentage Loss: 15.76%

Average Size of Home: 1228

Average Price Per Square Foot: $467.47

Biggest Losers : 330 Wisteria Dr in East Palo Alto with an annualized loss of 99% and 2568 Illinois Ave in East Palo Alto with an absolute loss of 48.35%

I have decided that I may start a different blog and update it more frequently to record these properties. The blog would be a good service to my community and it would be easier to navigate than these spreadsheets. Each home will have its own post and I can categorize the homes much better via blog categories!

Anyway, today I read a really good article by a teenage girl about the foreclosure situation: Teen columnist: For adults, foreclosure is payback time. I am glad to see there is still hope for the younger generation!

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Well, The Baglady was in quite a few carnivals the past two weeks, and here they are in no particular order:

Festival of Frugality — Kyle mentioned me as an editor’s pick! Thanks Kyle!

Carnival of Personal Finance

Personal Finance Money Tips

Carnival of Money Stories

All Women Blogging Carnival

Happiness Carnival

How to Solve Money Worries

Carnival of Debt Reduction

Carnival of Family Life

Carnival of Cities

Carnival of Insanities

Common Sense Wealth Carnival

Here are a few of my favorite stories from the past couple weeks:

Ben Stein writes about his clueless friends who don’t know how to work. I thought it was an extremely funny article.

Blownmortgage shows us the “best borrower ever”, and why even conforming mortgages could fail. This is a must read, and it was very eye opening to me because I never thought that a “prime” borrower could also be living on the edge.

The Retirement Hobo writes about thanking his network, and I’m in the story!! yeah!!

Millionaire Mommy spills the secrets to her investment portfolio. I read the strategy thoroughly and it actually makes a lot of sense and is easy to implement. I took a free trial of the NoLoad FundX newsletter and it turns out I already own some of the funds in the list and they are definitely the better performing funds in my portfolio. I have held these funds for a while though, and I don’t trade very often.

Anyway, I’m coming upon my 100th post of this blog! I am planning a Chinese edition of the blog to improve my Chinese writing skills, and we’ll see how that goes!

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This week there were some great carnivals as usual. First there is the All Women Blogging Carnival at Red Sultana where my article about selling eggs was included. Being the nerd I am I really liked this article about bird migration.

Next there is The Carnival of Personal Finance #126. In this carnival I wrote about speed interviewing. A couple articles I would like to highlight is Scrabble and Personal Finance: 8 Lessons from Tiles at Blueprint for Financial Propsperity and Soup Parrish’s Ground Rules for his retirement at age 24. I really love Scrabble and I love how Jim put together his experiences in a game into lessons for personal finance. Soup Parrish is a friend of mine and he is trying an interesting experiment in retiring on $75,000 in San Francisco. I would like to see how he does.  I have told him that realistically he can’t retire on $75,000 here in the Bay Area, but he has a set of rules that lets him generate other income too.  Check out his blog at The Retirement Hobo.

Finally, there is the Carnival of Money Stories at Being Frugal. I like Lynnae’s blog a lot and this week my article about Asian parents  has been included.  I also really liked this story about gifts for children by Betsy Teutsch.  It’s pretty true that kids don’t like presents like stocks and bonds because they can’t really play with it.

That’s all for this week!

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Well, I haven’t done a carnival roundup for a while. Today was my last day at my job and this entire week has been quite crazy.

Carnival of Debt Reduction #111 ~ What’s Scarier Than Debt? at I’ve Paid For This Twice Already. My post in this carnival is about not buying things you don’t need.

Carnival of Personal Finance: The Trick or Treat Contest Edition at Millionaire Mommy Next Door. My article in this carnival showcases the strange and crazy bosses I have met.

Carnival of Twenty-Something Finances at My Adventures into the Street. My post in this carnival is about leaving my job.

The Carnival of Family Life included my article on being an only child.

The Baglady hosted Carnival of Money Stories #32 — True Financial Horror Stories! Check out the carnival for some awesome stories from all more than twenty personal finance bloggers.

Finally, the story about my super cheap ex-boyfriend got a 4th wind this week since it was linked on one of the MSN Money Central blogs and then linked by JD over at Get Rich Slowly. My ex-bf wants to say that the part I exaggerated about is the 25 cent spaghetti, and I want to say I didn’t really break up with him because he is cheap.

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