Cool Site of the Week: QuestionsProtect.org

Posted 09/30/2011 at 11:56am | by Seamus Bellamy

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Ask an economist what a recession is, and you’ll be told that it’s a period of contraction during a given business cycle, often signaled by a slow down in economic activity. Now, ask the same question of members of your family, your neighbors or friends. Chances are, you’ll find there’s at least someone you know who’ll say a recession was responsible for their being laid off, the loss of their retirement funds or even their homes. As if the these fiscal hard times the world is going through weren’t already rough enough, unscrupulous bankers, mortgage brokers and other financial vultures have been licking their chops in anticipation over the possibility of getting their rat claws on our hard-earned assets at the first sign of our weakness or despair. While it’s not capable of outright saving your home, the National Fair Housing Alliance’s QuestionsProtect.org arms consumers with the tools they need to defend it.

 QuestionsProtect.org provides consumers with the knowledge and understanding required to avoid the financial pitfalls that could deprive them of one of their most valuable assets: Their homes.

In an effort to educate the site’s visitors on important topics like predatory lending, mortgage fraud and foreclosure scams, the National Fair Housing Alliance provides a wide range of resources in both in English and Spanish to aid consumers looking to purchase their first home, as well as those looking to keep the one they’ve lived in for years. If that’s not cool, we don’t know what is.

Be sure to check in every Friday for another edition of Maximum PC’s Cool Site of the Week.