Follow the Money — Part I
I like to read mystery novels, usually involving “Who done it?” To solve that question, most of the time you need to follow the money. The same can be said about your own personal spending plan. (Notice I didn’t use…
Auto Finance
What you will need to know about financing a vehicle purchase
How to buy a new car with bad credit
Buying a new car with bad credit isn’t the easiest thing you’ll ever do. Then, again, it’s not impossible, either. “It’s possible to buy a new car with bad credit if you know where to look and how to prepare,” says Edmunds.com…
Few consumer complaints are about auto loans and leases
More than 40,000 consumer complaints were filed within the first two months of 2014, according to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), record numbers for any one or two-month period during the bureau’s almost three-year lifespan. But if last year’s…
Auto loans their highest in five years, Equifax reports
Outstanding auto loans ($859.6 billion) and the total number of existing loans (62.3 million) in December were the highest in more than five years, according to the latest Equifax National Consumer Credit Trends Report. That means automobile lending “continues to…
How online car loans work at Santander Consumer USA
An online car loan works a lot like any other financing – except that it’s faster than more traditional methods and puts you in control of the process. Santander Consumer USA and its RoadLoans brand have pioneered online car loans…
Car loan: Figuring out how long – or short – your term should be
The following post originally appeared on our RoadLoans blog, The Open Road. Wander through the world of car loans – as most of us do every several years – and you’ll almost certainly find two things: 1. Experts agree that the shorter…