<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359</id><updated>2011-12-15T03:10:54.839Z</updated><category term='fresh start'/><category term='citizens'/><category term='clear'/><category term='unemployed'/><category term='loan'/><category term='doorstep'/><category term='sell'/><category term='experian'/><category term='debt consolidation'/><category term='prepaid'/><category term='crunch'/><category term='home'/><category term='cashplus'/><category term='blind'/><category term='debt help'/><category term='not'/><category term='uk'/><category term='credit'/><category term='partner not aware'/><category term='personal debts'/><category term='debt management'/><category term='lewis alexander'/><category term='living'/><category term='fisa'/><category term='line'/><category term='door'/><category term='mastercard'/><category term='business'/><category term='iva'/><category term='advice'/><category term='debt advice'/><category term='dogs'/><category term='personal debt'/><category term='secured'/><category term='economy'/><category term='order'/><category term='helpline'/><category term='alone'/><category term='normal'/><category term='fee'/><category term='alexander'/><category term='bankruptcy'/><category term='beware'/><category term='puppy'/><category term='creditor'/><category term='applies'/><category term='problems'/><category term='trouble'/><category term='unemployment'/><category term='national'/><category term='advic'/><category term='broker'/><category term='approved'/><category term='collectors'/><category term='redundancy'/><category term='24'/><category term='tv advert'/><category term='media'/><category term='cab'/><category term='about us'/><category term='charities'/><category term='collection'/><category term='refused'/><category term='hour'/><category term='help'/><category term='orders'/><category term='financial'/><category term='disability'/><category term='charging'/><category term='det'/><category term='geopathic'/><category term='enforcement'/><category term='allowance'/><category term='year'/><category term='planning'/><category term='lewis'/><category term='free debt helpline'/><category term='sale'/><category term='lender'/><category term='recession'/><category term='guide'/><category term='dla'/><category term='stress'/><category term='round'/><category term='personal'/><category term='check'/><category term='larry'/><category term='appeal'/><category term='housing market'/><category term='disabled'/><category term='advice free'/><category term='april'/><category term='card'/><category term='force'/><category term='dog'/><category term='sponsor'/><category term='restriction'/><category term='company'/><category term='loans'/><category term='insolvency'/><category term='house'/><category term='become'/><category term='launched'/><category term='debt'/><category term='fool'/><category term='debts'/><category term='health'/><title type='text'>IVA or DEBT MANAGEMENT TO CLEAR DEBTS</title><subtitle type='html'>Personal Debt help &amp;amp; IVA Advice -- BLOG DISCLAIMER -- Opinions expressed on this blog and relating messages posted by this author online are soley those of this author only &amp;amp; not the opinions or views of Lewis Alexander Limited the company. Our Initial advice is free, ongoing services are chargeable.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>52</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-8999229839369515926</id><published>2011-09-10T20:53:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-09-10T20:53:53.494+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Personal Debt Guide</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;ul style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;A simple personal debt guide about			online financial terms and UK personal debt terminology.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;This personal debt guide explains common           financial terms used within the UK &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/" title="debt"&gt;debt&lt;/a&gt; and personal credit industry.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;Every person should be able to find out about the basic terms used           when dealing with           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/personal-debt-help" title="personal debt help"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; advice and help in England, N. Ireland, Scotland and           Wales.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/administration-orders" title="Administration order"&gt;Administration order&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt; - An arrangement through a county court to repay over period of time at reduced           rate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy" title="Bankruptcy"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;           - A final end to a debt problem that           cannot be repaid within reasonable time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation" title="Consolidate debts or debt consolidation"&gt;Consolidate           or Debt Consolidation&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;-           A process of putting multiple repayments and credit accounts into one new one that consolidates the situation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/creditors" title="Creditors"&gt;Creditor&lt;/a&gt; - Company or person who is           owed money by a debtor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management" title="Debt Management"&gt;Debt           Management&lt;/a&gt; - Informal arrangement between you and your           creditors to repay at a rate you can afford which is NOT legally binding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva" title="IVA or individual voluntary arrangement"&gt;IVA or Individual Voluntary Arrangement&lt;/a&gt; - Formal arrangement           between you and your creditors which is legally binding.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" title="Insolvency"&gt;Insolvency&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;A procedure of dealing with personal           or corporate financial/debt issues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/iva-failed" title="IP or Insolvency practitioner"&gt;Insolvency Practitioner or IP&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;A           qualified and regulated person who can supervise your IVA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/mortgage-arrears" title="Mortgages"&gt;Mortgage&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Loan taken to buy a home with the           home acting as security in the event of failed repayment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.larry-the-loan-broker.co.uk/secured-loans/" title="Secured loans"&gt;Secured Loans&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Loans requiring secured items against           the risk of none or failed repayment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/trust-deed" title="Trust Deed"&gt;Trust Deed&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;in Simple terms, A Scottish IVA with some differences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.larry-the-loan-broker.co.uk/unsecured-loans/" title="Unsecured loans"&gt;Unsecured Loans&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Loans not requiring secured items           against the risk of none or failed repayment.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/data-protection" title="Data Protection act 1998"&gt;Data Protection Act 1998&lt;/a&gt;           - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;Protects a consumer against           the disclosure of and the use of personal information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us" title="Consumer Credit Act 1974"&gt;Consumer           Credit Act 1974&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;span style="font-weight: 400;"&gt;A legal Act and guideline           of rules for the general credit industry in the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us" title="CCL or Consumer Credit License"&gt;CCL or           Consumer Credit license&lt;/a&gt; -           License required to undertake offerings of certain credit facilities and services.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;h1 style="color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;If you would like one of our trained financial             advisors to call you back to discuss &lt;a href="http://www.debt-m-a-n-a-g-e-m-e-n-t.co.uk/" title="debt management UK"&gt;debt management UK&lt;/a&gt; advice             and help, then please call us FREE from a landline using 0800 018 6868.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-8999229839369515926?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8999229839369515926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8999229839369515926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/09/personal-debt-guide.html' title='Personal Debt Guide'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4943162817418233566</id><published>2011-07-11T03:56:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-07-11T03:56:46.199+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free debt helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fresh start'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>Debt consolidation Help and Advice for a Fresh Start</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;UK debt consolidation advice could be all you need for a fresh start&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Debt consolidation help is available everywhere it seems. Getting the  right debt consolidation advice is very important if you want the best chance of  getting out of debt quickly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Get advice to help clear your personal debts in the UK&lt;/h3&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-help" title="debt help"&gt;Debt help&lt;/a&gt;  is not purely about just being told what you need, sign a piece of  paper to tie you into  yet another contract and then reap the rewards of  poor            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-management-plan" title="debt managemnet plans"&gt;debt management plans&lt;/a&gt;. To really get to the bottom of an individuals            &lt;a href="http://www.personal-debt.co.uk/" title="personal debt"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; situation takes care, attention and tact  because people often feel embarrassed and vulnerable when it comes to  talking about debt on our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline" title="free debt helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our debt advisors won't just try to convince you to enter an IVA or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;Debt&lt;/a&gt; Management Plan unless it is the correct and best debt consolidation advice for you, they  will want a proper discussion to carefully work out what would be the  most beneficial           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management" title="debt management plans"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt; solution for you as an individual.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Do you need just &lt;span style="color: #ff6600;"&gt;ONE&lt;/span&gt;, affordable monthly repayment to pay all your            unsecured debts!&lt;/h3&gt;This can be a possibility subject to your status through effective debt management and building a            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/personal-debt-help" title="personal debt help"&gt;personal debt help&lt;/a&gt; plan that will address your specific situation.Once that has been established we can recommend what personal debt consolidation solutions we think would suit you best meaning you will be            better placed to make an informed choice about your financial future.            Our recommendations may include any of the following.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.debt-m-a-n-a-g-e-m-e-n-t.co.uk/" title="debt management UK"&gt;Debt Management UK&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation" title="debt consolidation"&gt;Debt Consolidation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva" title="IVA"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;            or Individual Voluntary Arrangement&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/trust-deed" title="Trust deed"&gt;Protected Trust Deed&lt;/a&gt; in Scotland&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.larry-the-loan-broker.co.uk/" title="Personal loans"&gt;Personal Loans&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;There are other ideas we may have that could involve less formal  propositions than those listed above but these tend to only be  applicable when the            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems" title="personal debt problems"&gt;debt problem&lt;/a&gt; is not that severe. The larger the debt problem, the more formal the            personal debt solution tends to be.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You will have an idea of how serious things have become by how  much stress you feel under to pay bills each month. Obviously, if things  are so bad that you are not paying your           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/mortgage-arrears" title="mortgage arrears"&gt;mortgage arrears&lt;/a&gt;            each month, you could be about to lose your home so something has to            be done quickly.&amp;nbsp; Other lesser bills can be dealt with equally            efficiently and this can help to keep creditors away from your door and off            the phone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some of the more formal options, such as the            IVA or Individual Voluntary Arrangement, actually  guarantee the end of creditors writing, calling or visiting you to try  and get cash from you. They usually respect the process of an IVA and  once agreed they should not harass you for interest or charges.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Struggling  because of a poor or bad credit history / score? &lt;/h3&gt;You may be struggling to get credit because of a rocky patch in  your past. Find out what can be done to repair your credit rating by  examining your credit reference files and ensuring everything is  correct.&amp;nbsp;            Find information about how to repair your      &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings" title="credit score"&gt;credit rating&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call and one of our trained advisors will give you confidential advice!&lt;br /&gt;Call free from a land line using &lt;b&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/b&gt; and make a fresh start today!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4943162817418233566?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4943162817418233566'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4943162817418233566'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/07/debt-consolidation-help-and-advice-for.html' title='Debt consolidation Help and Advice for a Fresh Start'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2936998967265134948</id><published>2011-06-28T22:18:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-28T22:18:21.992+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='housing market'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='national'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crunch'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home'/><title type='text'>The forecast is still decidedly cloudy in the housing market</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Whilst fish &amp;amp; chips, afternoon tea and owning your own home are classically British traits, our continental cousins in France and Italy are still happy to pay rent for their homes. So is this preference toward ‘bricks and mortar’ investment healthy?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For many years this model of owning a home did indeed make sense. Location flexibility was required by only a few employers and as families tended to stay close to their roots, purchasing a house as an investment and something to pass on to the kids (or to sell and fund a retirement) worked out as a great all round option.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then along came the Eighties’ and with it a housing boom and an even tougher bust with interest rates soaring toward 20%. Then in the late Nineties and most of the Naughties came along another considerable period of house price rises, until the financial turmoil and fall out from the now infamous Sub-Prime lending.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This has left many British families who had gambled their financial futures on house price rises starting to sweat. Sure a period of negative growth had hurt a little bit – and indeed a blanket drop of approximately 30% across the UK (London excepted!) did initially look a bit scary.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prices were sure to rebound… weren’t they?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Sadly, some three years on and we are still awaiting this rebound and if the latest figures from the Halifax House Price Index are anything to go by, in the year May 2010 to May 2011, a further 4.2% has been eroded from the value of our homes, with the average UK home now worth a touch over £160k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;So with no real sign of prices returning to late 2007 highs, where does this leave ‘Alarm Clock Britain’?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In short, whilst no high street banking executive or government official would admit to it, there are still a number of UK families who are technically insolvent. This is because the total of their &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debts&lt;/a&gt; exceed the total value that could be raised by selling all of their assets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ok, but what does this actually mean?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Being insolvent doesn’t necessarily mean that millions of people are about to be declared bankrupt, instead it means that a little bit like Greece, they need to implement some austerity measures in order to avoid the murky shadow of debt creeping ever further over them and start to repay some of this borrowing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It also means that somewhere between 10 &amp;amp; 15% of UK mortgage holders are still in ‘negative equity’ meaning that their possibility of moving is restricted, unless they effectively find another deposit to help them secure a mortgage.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For example, a couple who earn £40,000 between them and bought a £200k house with 100% mortgage (i.e. a £200,000 mortgage) in 2007 could now expect that house to be worth less than £200k today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that couple had lost their jobs through redundancies and now wanted to move to a similarly sized house in a new area for a new job, then they could be some thousands of pounds short of the amount needed to repay their original loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In addition, under current mortgage lending criteria, most lenders are not offering mortgages for any less than 85-90%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, with this kind of scenario stopping people already on the property ladder from moving, then it’s up to the first time buyer to help oil the wheels of recovery for the housing market.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you are struggling with personal debt or have &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/mortgage-arrears"&gt;mortgage arrears&lt;/a&gt; due to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems"&gt;debt problems&lt;/a&gt;, call Lewis Alexander today using 0800 018 6868, calls are FREE from a land line.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2936998967265134948?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2936998967265134948'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2936998967265134948'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/06/forecast-is-still-decidedly-cloudy-in.html' title='The forecast is still decidedly cloudy in the housing market'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author><georss:featurename>United Kingdom</georss:featurename><georss:point>55.378051 -3.43597299999999</georss:point><georss:box>42.200901 -24.84370049999999 68.555201 17.97175450000001</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1778694610231460867</id><published>2011-06-23T04:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-23T04:57:06.292+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Ashamed to ask for Debt Help</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;Get advice about your debts and help with your money, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;There is no shame in asking the people who know the  answers for help when it comes to personal debt.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The alternative could  be getting deeper and deeper into debt making it harder and harder to  escape from.    &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wait no longer, ask for that help today.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Life in Britain today is lived in the fast lane and the expectations   we all try to live up to can be crippling at times. This constant  expectation can have inherent financial implications which in themselves  can lead to people needing professional           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-help" target="_blank" title="Debt Help"&gt;debt help&lt;/a&gt;. Many people try to suffer quietly because they wrongly think that they are the only ones who are experiencing these &lt;a href="http://personal-debt.co.uk/" title="debt"&gt;debt&lt;/a&gt; problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lot of people are fighting            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/" target="_blank" title="personal debt"&gt;           personal debt&lt;/a&gt; and the ones who get out of debt quickly are the ones who get proper            help to           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/clear-my-debt" title="help to clear personal debts without loans"&gt;           clear debt&lt;/a&gt; as early as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you feel you perhaps need           &lt;a href="http://www.debt-m-a-n-a-g-e-m-e-n-t.co.uk/" target="_blank" title="debt management UK"&gt;debt management UK&lt;/a&gt; or are maybe not sure            whether our help is necessary, call us or get in touch using &lt;b&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/b&gt;            so one of our advisors can talk to you to ascertain whether or not you            might benefit from our advice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Money trouble is one of the biggest causes of           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/divorce-and-debt" title="divorce debt"&gt;divorce&lt;/a&gt; in the UK and can even cause serious           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/stress-and-debt" title="debt and personal health"&gt;stress&lt;/a&gt; induced illnesses. Our           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-management-plan" target="_blank" title="debt management plans"&gt;debt management plan&lt;/a&gt;            is designed to take away the stress at the same time as removing the debts in a pain free and organised manner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We offer people tried and tested ways to better organise their  debts in an attempt to pay off those debts in a timely way that doesn't  incur further interest or charges, this can not be guaranteed. We work in conjunction with your           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/creditors" title="creditors and their collection agents"&gt;creditors&lt;/a&gt; and because everything is agreed by all parties, the constant barrage of creditors letters and phone calls also tends to cease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: left;"&gt;           Organise your debts better with &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank" title="debt management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; solutions.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank" title="debt consolidation"&gt;Consolidate debts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; into one easily affordable monthly repayment&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;h4 style="text-align: left;"&gt;Lay out a formal repayment plan with an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank" title="IVA advice and help UK"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: normal;"&gt; or Individual Voluntary Arrangement           &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h4&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;All of these           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems" title="debt solutions"&gt;debt solutions&lt;/a&gt;  have their own benefits and downsides but may not suit  every situation. Once we have  spoken with you we will be better able to advise you on a course of  action to get your debts under control.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our main aim has always been to financially empower consumers to  regain control of the quality of their lives   through education and  financial management through &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" title="UK Debt Help"&gt;UK debt help&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To this end we focus on the vulnerable people in society as well  as the well off. The following groups of people find our help invaluable on  a regular basis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/single-parents" target="_blank" title="single parent debt help"&gt;Single parent in debt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;       People &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/redundancy-and-debt" target="_blank" title="loast your job and struggling with personal debts"&gt;recently made redundant and in debt&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information-pages/student-debt" target="_blank" title="student debt help"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;       &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/pensioners-and-debt" target="_blank" title="pensioner debt advice and help"&gt;Retired people with debts&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;People who have just lost a loved one and have been &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/bereavement-and-debt" target="_blank" title="debt after a death"&gt;left with debts after a death&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h2 style="color: blue; font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Get help today by calling &lt;span class="phoneNoRed"&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/span&gt; now!  &lt;/b&gt;&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1778694610231460867?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1778694610231460867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1778694610231460867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/06/ashamed-to-ask-for-debt-help.html' title='Ashamed to ask for Debt Help'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-8686605268459639542</id><published>2011-06-20T01:55:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-06-20T01:55:25.290+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt advice'/><title type='text'>Personal debt advice and help</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Get  debt advice that will actually make a difference!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;It              does not matter what time of day you decide to get debt help, our lines are open to take your call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.&amp;nbsp; So if you have woken again during the night and have              decided it is time to change your financial future, we are happy to take your              call.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;Call us right now! Day or night you can call FREE from a BT land line using &lt;b&gt;0800 018 3345.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;We offer personal UK debt advice and help that you can rely on!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;With such a variety of information, disinformation, advice and what is  sometimes pure myth, it can be difficult to try and figure out what is  actually good reliable            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/personal-debt-help" title="personal debt helpine available"&gt;personal debt help&lt;/a&gt; these days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have a work ethic that we are rightly proud of. We offer totally confidential            &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice" title="personal debt advice"&gt;advice            on debt&lt;/a&gt; to people struggling through a very difficult and  sometimes awkward part of their life. We do not take advantage of our  clients when they are at their most vulnerable. We guide them and advise  them how to           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/" title="clear debt with direct help"&gt;clear debts&lt;/a&gt; the simplest and            most economical way we can recommend. From &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/student-debt" target="_blank"&gt;           students&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/pensioners-and-debt" target="_blank"&gt;           pensioners&lt;/a&gt; we can and do help most people with           &lt;a href="http://www.debt-m-a-n-a-g-e-m-e-n-t.co.uk/" title="debt management UK"&gt;debt management UK&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.personal-debt.co.uk/" title="personal debt help online"&gt;           Personal debt&lt;/a&gt; affects  different people in different ways  because everyone has different circumstances and different lifestyles.  We aim to find a solution for you which is tailored to suit your own set  of circumstances and will hopefully align itself to your own lifestyle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Firstly, remember that&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation" title="personal debt consolidation advice, help and loans"&gt;debt consolidation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  advice should not be costing you a single penny. If you have been  offered advice at a cost, then perhaps you should walk away. We could be able to help you pay  off all of your debts and you could obtain one affordable monthly  repayment. We can also try to halt any interest charges that you may  currently be being charged by   store and credit cards through a debt management plan but this can not be guaranteed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva" title="IVA advice"&gt;           Individual Voluntary Arrangement or IVA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IVA  or Individual Voluntary Arrangements have a fixed repayment period of  no   more than 60 months ending on a specific end date which you are  aware of from the beginning. After this date, all your debts are  usually cleared. In England and Wales, creditors have to freeze all further  interest and charges by law (In Scotland an IVA is better known as a           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/trust-deed" title="Trust Deed in Scotland"&gt;Trust Deed&lt;/a&gt;. Once you have made your final   repayment, all outstanding debts are usually legally written off by your   creditors.&amp;nbsp;           &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-information-pages/creditors" title="debt collection agents and lenders"&gt;Creditors&lt;/a&gt; are held to the agreed repayment amounts throughout an IVA and should not alter them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/iva-failed" target="_blank" title="apply for an IVA online"&gt;Do you know that you have failed an IVA and wish to gain further help or advice.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy" title="debt management is an option away fron an IVA"&gt;Do you want more information about the alternatives to bankruptcy in England&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you would like to read our client testimonials in full please visit our client &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/testimonials" title="how we help others in the same situation"&gt;testimonial page&lt;/a&gt; for full details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h2&gt;To find out if we can help you start to clear your debts, call &lt;span class="phoneNoRed"&gt;0800 018 3345&lt;/span&gt; now!&lt;/h2&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-8686605268459639542?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8686605268459639542'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8686605268459639542'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/06/personal-debt-advice-and-help.html' title='Personal debt advice and help'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5859149878325726118</id><published>2011-04-01T01:00:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-04-01T01:00:01.783+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Do not fool around with debt in April</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;April is not a time to be fooling around if you have &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems"&gt;personal debt problems&lt;/a&gt;.  It is a time when if careful, you can really plan a solid financial  routine for the rest of the year. Christmas was only round the last  corner and it will be Summer soon. You do not want to be worrying about  court actions and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/legal-proceedings"&gt;solicitor letters from credit companies&lt;/a&gt;  and their collection agents when you could be out enjoying the spring  and summer air! Get your finances sorted! If you are still reading this  article you are either genuinely interested or seriously over committed  with personal debt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander helps many people  every day to consolidate their personal debts or just gain friendly  advice to set them on the road to their own managed financial stability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The  hard part of a sound financial life is good planning, when you start it  really is quite simple, it is the thought of delving into the unknown  that is the frightening part and this can stop most of us being  financially OK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article is designed to get you thinking about how you could better plan the rest of your year financially if trying to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear debt&lt;/a&gt;,  what would you like to buy friends or family for birthdays and  Christmas this year? There are 5 simple letters you must remember and  can apply to your finances and most areas of your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPPPP - Perfect Planning Prevents Pathetic Performance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you need advice on personal debt problems and you are a UK resident over 18, please contact &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/contact-us"&gt;Lewis Alexander Financial Planning&lt;/a&gt;, online or visit our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-help"&gt;debt help&lt;/a&gt; website for further details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can help with &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;personal loans&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/trust-deed"&gt;Trust Deeds&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call  &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/a&gt;  FREE today in total confidence!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5859149878325726118?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5859149878325726118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5859149878325726118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/04/do-not-fool-around-with-debt-in-april.html' title='Do not fool around with debt in April'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-6806990273849866876</id><published>2011-03-30T23:24:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-30T23:24:45.105+01:00</updated><title type='text'>One in Ten adults permanently overdrawn</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;!--[if gte mso 9]&gt;&lt;xml&gt; 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mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;What traditionally was considered a facility to cover yourself for the unintentional ‘slip-up’ towards the end of the month (when your wages had run out!) is increasingly becoming a necessity, new research commissioned by Money Supermarket has claimed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;According to the internet company, being overdrawn is now a permanent fixture for 10% of UK adults and this figure increases to 16% in the 20-29 age category.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;It is this youngest age group which caused researchers most concern as almost half this age-group had fallen into the red in the last year.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When this is combined with the poor savings habits of the young it makes for grim reading.&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Unsurprisingly it is the ‘grey’ bank account holders that seem to manage their money best, with only 18% of those aged 70+ using their overdraft at all during the past 12 months!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;So is this increasing use of the overdraft facility a worrying trend, slack financial management, or simply a reflection on the extraordinarily tough economic conditions that preside in the UK at the start of 2011?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;This blog writer is of the opinion that a combination of all is to blame.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The hidden mystery and respect for the local bank manager has dissipated over the past 20 years, to the point where they are now little more than sales managers.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The banks would have you believe that all staff are ‘customer service representatives’, but make no mistake, the smiling friendly face in your local branch has sales targets tattooed on their brain!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This culture means that when you go into the bank, the banks staff actively try to sell you an overdraft, instead of pointing you to the virtues of impeccable fiscal restraint and planning.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;When this is coupled with the fact that having an overdraft (or at least applying for one) is tagged on to the account opening process – in the same way that having a debit card is – it is hardly surprising that the trend for having overdrafts in the first instance is increasing.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;And of course, once you have one… its easy to spend!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Next on the ‘blame’ list is the slack financial management that pervades the UK.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;But where has this come from?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;Were we always this bad?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Internet research suggests not and indeed if you ask any person of pensionable age and they are likely to blame the ‘I want it and I want it now!’ age.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Re-wind back to the 1960s and it was normal to save hard before finally making a purchase.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;But that wasn’t all… the modern age is said to have become a time when an incredible variety of gadgets, cars, items, jewellery, clothes and indeed furniture are said to be ‘needed’.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Whereas our relatives who saved in the 60’s and before were saving to buy one item, rather than several!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Add in the fact that very few households truly understand their monthly outgoings and Houston, we have a problem.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;The tough economic conditions are the final leg of this increasing tendency to use the overdraft.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;It has been well documented that food price inflation, energy bill increases and the sky-high cost of petrol are hitting ‘Alarm Clock Britain’ hard.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As this creates an increasing squeeze on household budgets, the inevitable consequence is to dip into the overdraft.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;However, this type of overdraft usage isn’t the occasional slip-up… it’s the use of a credit facility to fund every day living.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;If you find you are in this position and are living in your overdraft each and every month, then you might want to consider a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/financial-healthcheck" style="color: blue;"&gt;financial health check&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: blue;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;from &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" style="color: blue;"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span&gt;By calling us FREE from land lines using &lt;b&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/b&gt;, our trained&lt;span style="background-color: white; 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mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}&lt;/style&gt; &lt;![endif]--&gt;  &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;You can hardly watch 30 minutes of TV without catching at least one advert break in 2011 - and the chances are that this commercial interlude will include at least one entry from a financial services provider!&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Increasingly, these companies are concentrating their efforts on the lowest earners in the UK and the most recent phenomenon of the doorstep or pay-day loan.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Typically ranging between £50 and £1500 and lasting for between 5 and 30 days, these loans are designed to help those who run out of cash at the end of the month and need a cash injection before their wages are paid, in order to meet pay their everyday expenses. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;According to a recent survey, most households run out of cash on the 22&lt;sup&gt;nd&lt;/sup&gt; or 23&lt;sup&gt;rd&lt;/sup&gt; of each month.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;As most of the employed workforce in the UK are now paid once per month they will be familiar with these barren final few days until the next pay check comes in.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;In the not-to-distant past, this gap would be filled by taking ‘overtime’ at the factory or by pawning your grandfather’s watch, but the modern equivalent is to walk into the various cash shops that have opened up offering payday loans or to visit the websites or indeed i-phone applications that are available.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;An alarming number of UK households are now using pay-day loans on a semi-regular basis to help see them through.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In many cases those taking the loan do not realise that rates of up to 3000% can be charged for such loans.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Crass calculations for sure, but what these ‘telephone number’ APRs do demonstrate is that a closer look into this areas is required. The fact that the loan is repaid in such a short period of time does have an effect on the APR being higher.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;By the time that you have borrowed £100 for 2 weeks, it is common to repay a total of in and around £120.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;That £20 might seem like a small price to pay, but in effect this ‘eats’ £20 into your wages each month that you use a doorstep or payday loan company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Furthermore, should you fail to make the agreed repayment, then the £100 borrowed can quickly turn into hundreds and even thousands as late payment penalties, bounced bank direct debits and the somewhat dubious administration charges are applied to the cost of the loan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;So why is the UK turning ‘en masse’ to this form of lending?&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;In the past, if you were short at the end of the month, it would involve one quick call to your bank to request a short-term overdraft or extension to your overdraft.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Now with the state of bank finances, these short-term requests are increasingly falling on deaf ears as banks tighten their purse strings.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The result is that increasing numbers flock to doorstep loan companies for what they see as a quick fix to their financial struggles.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Is it this ‘ease of availability’ that customers are drawn to? Or the flashy ‘friendly’ looking advertisements? Or indeed the fact that these companies are not the large corporate banking organisations that the public increasingly blame for the hard-times experienced in the current economy.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Perhaps it is more appropriate to blame a lack of education and public understanding of what a failure to repay the short-term advance would entail.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Instead of the government looking to legislate around these large APRs, a more sensible option would be to ensure that customers taking such loans were fully aware of what might happen should they fail to repay the loan – but this subject sounds like an all together different subject for a blog!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;If you are experiencing financial difficulty caused by taking out such a loan, then you may want to get some independent help to review your overall financial circumstances to at least stop this debt from escalating further.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Here at &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt; we are available to listen to your personal circumstances before appointing one of our independent &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;debt management consultants&lt;/a&gt; to assist you with your case.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Call us today on &lt;b&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/b&gt; and we will work with you to help you out of your financial difficulties.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;All we ask is that our clients have a regular income and a will and determination to improve their circumstances.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Tahoma&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;Sitting on a situation and taking no action rarely helps, so call us &lt;b&gt;FREE&lt;/b&gt; from a land line today on &lt;b&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/b&gt; and start to take control of your finances again.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5651981701154815387?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5651981701154815387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5651981701154815387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-doorstep-loan-and-cash-loans-are.html' title='Why the doorstep loan and cash loans are not a long term debt solution'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5754931755602059724</id><published>2010-11-07T01:59:00.005Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:01:47.809Z</updated><title type='text'>Financial Healthcheck Launched by Lewis Alexander</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander has launched a new service which offers UK consumers a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/financial-healthcheck"&gt;financial healthcheck&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="420"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wPJAyPA86Po?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wPJAyPA86Po?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="420" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By calling the Lewis Alexander&amp;nbsp;free debt helpline using &lt;strong&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/strong&gt; consumers can obtain advice available to clear personal credit card debts and other unsecured credit without the need for taking out further loans.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5754931755602059724?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5754931755602059724'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5754931755602059724'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2010/11/financial-healthcheck-launched-by-lewis.html' title='Financial Healthcheck Launched by Lewis Alexander'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5961080307377104656</id><published>2009-12-25T14:05:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:08:33.094Z</updated><title type='text'>New Year resolutions 2010 - Credit Cards, Loans and Personal Debt</title><content type='html'>&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;How will your personal finances suffer or benefit through 2010?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Will you be able to manage after over spending during the Christmas period of 2009 / 2010?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;What if you suffer a change in circumstance that prevents you from working?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;If you have over spent through Christmas and the New Year period you will accept that some cut backs need to be made.&amp;nbsp; Try some of the following;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Change where you buy your food, shop around for like for like quality at better prices!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Where do you fill up your car, is there anywhere a little less expensive locally to your home or work?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How often do you buy clothes or items that are not due for change, could you cut back?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;How do you consider luxury items, are they a need or a want?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Can you earn a extra money from time spare or fromyour existing job?&amp;nbsp; Ask your boss!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Are you lazy or do you really want financial freedom?&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The only way to achieve financial freedom is to make a budget to live&amp;nbsp;within&amp;nbsp;each month and stick to it.&amp;nbsp; If you vary or stray away from the budget or financial statement&amp;nbsp;you have prepared, things will become unmanageable.&amp;nbsp; Not only will&amp;nbsp;you not have money for day to day living costs but you will not be able to&amp;nbsp;deal with unexpected problems like car breakdowns, washing machine troubles,&amp;nbsp;etc...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are not sure how to make a budget there is plenty of help available online and certain companies will actually help you&amp;nbsp;to prepare&amp;nbsp;these budgets.&amp;nbsp; There is little point in preparinga budget if you are not going to stick with it and most people that start one benefit from the effort they put in.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are struggling with personal debt and need help to prepare a debt management plan that will be &lt;strong&gt;managed for you&lt;/strong&gt; and dealt with by us or jut need general debt help and advice, &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;please call free using &lt;strong&gt;0800 018 6868, lines are open 24 hours.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PWAA8Q4CZ7D9&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5961080307377104656?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5961080307377104656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5961080307377104656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2009/12/new-year-resolutions-2010-credit-cards.html' title='New Year resolutions 2010 - Credit Cards, Loans and Personal Debt'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4760440053040251492</id><published>2009-09-06T17:32:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:08:54.786Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><title type='text'>Debts help</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;Debts help&lt;/a&gt; in the UK from Lewis Alexander Financial Management.&lt;br /&gt;Get help to &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&amp;amp;v=MnqLsat2ID0"&gt;clear debts without loans&lt;/a&gt; and further credit. When you need debts help it can be a very daunting task to speak with strangers about a personal problem, you must remember that these strangers are trained to understand your &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems"&gt;debt problems&lt;/a&gt; and can advise you accordingly.&lt;br /&gt;Do not keep making applications fro credit if you have been refused, you must accept that obtaining &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;help with your debts&lt;/a&gt; is the next stage. Not to borrow more money!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For debts help and advice contact our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/strong&gt; in total confidence, our lines are open and your call is FREE.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4760440053040251492?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4760440053040251492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4760440053040251492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2009/09/debts-help.html' title='Debts help'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1923971661411177585</id><published>2009-04-14T12:49:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:09:15.004Z</updated><title type='text'>Debt Management "Minnow" Lewis Alexander Stands Strong After Avoiding Acquisitions</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander Limited, the specialist Debt Management, Debt Consolidation and IVA advice service has released information about the current standing of the company after its decline of offer/s made relating to the possible sale of the business over the last 3 years.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="javascript:loadBed("&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Manchester, England (&lt;a href="http://uk.prweb.com/"&gt;PRWeb UK&lt;/a&gt;/&lt;a href="http://www.prweb.com/"&gt;PRWEB&lt;/a&gt; ) April 13, 2009 -- Debt Management specialists Lewis Alexander of Manchester England have confirmed that trading remained profitable for 2008 / 2009. Takeover talks and further bids were rejected over the last 2-3 years but the company remains in a position of financial strength regardless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company's main focus is on acquiring and retaining Debt Management clients. It does this through a free debt helpline, made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;Most clients who approach Lewis Alexander are in need of advice and help regarding all different types of personal debt issues. Lewis Alxander is a UK registered trade mark and the company is recognised nationally both online and offline through direct response television advertising. An exceptional ability has been shown by Lewis Alexander when it comes to online SEO or Search Engine Optimisation. The company refused to Pay Per Click (PPC) in the past but market conditions are starting to allow for PPC as profit from uncostly SEO is up. The SEO success enjoyed has allowed Lewis Alexander to compete with the larger PLC competition without the same cost they encounter through paying per click. This in turn reduces the cost per client acquisition for Lewis Alexander over its competitors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whilst the company has made significant progress and growth over the last few years, it has done this much to the benefit of its existing client base by creating a compliant and honest environment where people can obtain the advice they need at the speed and time they require.&lt;br /&gt;This can only be offered with the commitment of the clients that remain using the Lewis Alexander service. Most &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" onclick="linkClick( this.href );" target="_blank" title="debt management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt; companies boast a client retention rate of approx 5-6 months. Lewis Alexander is currently boasting client retention periods of 3-5 years, a massive difference which clearly states a difference in operational procedure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The profitability of the company is down to a number of reasons. Firstly, the business model is based upon organic growth, so should an advertising campaign turn bad, it has been budgeted and paid for from cash at hand. Secondly, there are a board of keen directors involved that believe in development and investment in existing people and systems, that without, the company would not be where it is. Thirdly, the company shows a commitment to the clients long term financial recovery by not over stretching them and making initial repayments affordable. Their advisors are not commission based, they are paid regardless of the client taking the companies fee charging help. This ensures compliant advice on behalf of the company at all times.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reputation of Lewis Alexander is at stake every time it makes an offer of repayment to a creditor, on behalf of a third party/client. This is because if the third party/client does not commit and repay, the offers sent by Lewis Alexander appear disrupting to the creditors. This is important as the client selection by Lewis Alexander is as important as the clients own selection of the service they choose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The outlook for the company is strong for 2009 / 2010. Trading will be slowed by market conditions in the first / second quarter and the obvious problem faced for most debt agencies is that people cannot consider repaying their unsecured debts until they are back in employment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This will have significant setbacks to the industry as a main for the remainder of 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander faced offers and a potential opportunity to join a listed PLC company in its quest to increase market share of the Insolvency / Debt Management arena. The offer was declined by Lewis Alexander shareholders and thankfully due to current share prices at the time of this articles creation, the company stands strong as a master of its own destiny. The fact that the company is privately owned does allow for the extra care and consideration of the client management which is evidenced by the retention rates not just the ability to obtain new enquiries or acquisitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is most important from an investment point of view as the company that attains a client quickly, makes a sale. However, the company that attains and retains clients makes the sale and builds an investable business with a strong foundation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For further information about Lewis Alexander Limited please visit &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us" onclick="linkClick( this.href );" target="_blank" title="Lewis Alexander"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt; or call +44 (0) 161 872 3383 . 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Most door to door loans have high interest rates due to the short nature of the loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you find you are borrowing money from companies such as Provident, Shopacheck or Greenwoods, you may wish to contact us for debt advice about how to manage repayments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; today in confidence using 0800 018 6868.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2580705628674473317?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2580705628674473317'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2580705628674473317'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2009/04/doorstep-loans-yes-or-no.html' title='Doorstep loans - YES or NO'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1843034219131644414</id><published>2009-02-01T15:29:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:09:43.114Z</updated><title type='text'>Credit Card Debt</title><content type='html'>Are you suffering with &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;credit card debt&lt;/a&gt; problems?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of the UK is swamped in credit card debt and peoples lives are becoming a misery. Not only do changes in circumstance affect us daily, people do not seem to have the savings that families enjoyed generations back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Families are splitting up due to financial problems and this is very sad when the people involved have sound relationships, apart from the financial side. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you think you are going to fall behind with &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;credit card&lt;/a&gt; repayments, stop and get the help that is available today. The later you leave it to take advice or help the larger the credit card debt becomes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Contact our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; in confidence today using 0800 018 6868. Your call is FREE&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1843034219131644414?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1843034219131644414'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1843034219131644414'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2009/02/credit-card-debt.html' title='Credit Card Debt'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4202895762853290354</id><published>2009-01-31T01:22:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-01-31T01:27:15.050Z</updated><title type='text'>Bad credit loans</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans/bad-credit-loans"&gt;Bad credit loans&lt;/a&gt; are very high interest baring and are hard to get away from.  They are near impossible to pay off due to the period of time of the original loan and once the interest starts compounding you are less likely to be able to clear a bad credit loan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For advice and help about &lt;a href="http://personal-debt.co.uk/2009/01/31/bad-credit-loans/"&gt;bad credit loans&lt;/a&gt; please contact our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4202895762853290354?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4202895762853290354'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4202895762853290354'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2009/01/bad-credit-loans.html' title='Bad credit loans'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2650596335107639331</id><published>2008-07-31T16:25:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:07:33.423Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clear'/><title type='text'>How to clear Personal Debts with the increase of Energy prices</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;If you are struggling to clear &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debts&lt;/a&gt; and are increasingly worried about the prices changes within the energy markets, you need to prepare a budget to get you through the problematic period ahead. The budget can be quite simple, start by listing what you have coming into the household income each month and then prepare another list of what is going out in expenditure. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Once you have this income and expenditure statement you may be worried that you do not have enough coming in to cover what is going out! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;That is when an individual needs to take advice about how to change the costs within the home or increase earnings to cover the extra costs each month, this is not all ways possible in a short space of time. if you have a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/mortgage-credit-checks"&gt;mortgage&lt;/a&gt;, your &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/"&gt;personal debt problem&lt;/a&gt; is more serious regarding your property, that mortgage must be paid at all times, the moment you are falling behind with your mortgage, you must take financial advice!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;You could be evicted from your home or place of residence and even if you are renting a property, you must keep up with the payments for the roof over your head as a main priority. Not all cases are so severe!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The following &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;debt solutions&lt;/a&gt; can help you &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear personal debts&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-management-plan"&gt;debt management plans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;debt consolidation loans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.debtmanagementuk.org.uk/"&gt;debt management UK&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.insolvencyadviceuk.co.uk/"&gt;Insolvency&lt;/a&gt; or an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;If you need &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/personal-debt-help"&gt;personal debt help&lt;/a&gt; or advice about how better to manage your finances, please call our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; in total confidence today, our advisors are straight to the point and also aware you may be finding it difficult to pick up the phone and discuss the issues you are facing, we deal with personal debt problems daily so be strong and call our free phone debt helpline now using 0800 018 6868, your call is FREE!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2650596335107639331?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.lewisalexander.com/' title='How to clear Personal Debts with the increase of Energy prices'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2650596335107639331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2650596335107639331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-clear-personal-debts-with.html' title='How to clear Personal Debts with the increase of Energy prices'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5940025565853964253</id><published>2008-06-29T15:33:00.010+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:10:33.147Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free debt helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><title type='text'>Personal Debt Help Enquiries Surge in June</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;A sudden and great increase in &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt help&lt;/a&gt; enquiries at Lewis Alexander has been reported for the month of June 2008. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;We would normally expect by June that the post Christmas rush and need to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;clear credit cards&lt;/a&gt;, coupled with that &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;need for money to clear personal debts&lt;/a&gt; to be over, this is not the case. A great number of UK residents seem to have waited to see if things get any better toward the Summer and most felt that by June 2008 enough was enough.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;This sudden increase in enquiries, has come from individuals who have &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/iva-failed"&gt;failed to enter into an IVA&lt;/a&gt; or broken the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; agreement due to further changes in circumstance and a subsequent inability to maintain regular monthly contributions. Apart from &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;, in most cases a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-management-plans"&gt;debt management plan&lt;/a&gt; is the best option available. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Clients that are in this position are also struggling, or did &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;struggle with the IVA repayments&lt;/a&gt; due to the original payment being set too high at the outset. The high &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; payment ensured that the companies proposing the Iva's, could guarantee a minimum percentage of the total debt to be repaid over the agreed fixed period of 60 months, back to the respective &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/creditors"&gt;creditors&lt;/a&gt;. Therefore, greatly increasing the chance of acceptance of the IVA at the "&lt;a href="http://www.uk-iva-uk.co.uk/"&gt;creditors meeting&lt;/a&gt;". We are not suggesting for one moment that these companies have acted fraudulently or illegally, merely pointing out where the machine of big &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-help/business-debt-help"&gt;business&lt;/a&gt;, can act as nothing more than a conflict of interest to the people with the original problem that created the source of revenue!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Personal &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-help"&gt;debt help&lt;/a&gt; is simple when explained in the correct way. We can all dress things up to sound complicated but when it comes to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt;, the importance of making the right decision of which &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/"&gt;debt solution&lt;/a&gt; to use is imperative, as time that is wasted in pursuing the wrong route can never be recovered!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;At Lewis Alexander, we help many people every day to start the process of debt clearance and for those that wish to use our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-services"&gt;debt services&lt;/a&gt;, that have tried to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/find-debt-help"&gt;find debt help&lt;/a&gt; before, the process is usually very straight forward. We enjoy keeping things as simple as can be for you, this way you will at all times understand what you are entering into!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;For a debt advisory call, use our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; today, lines are open 24 hours.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Call 0800 018 6868&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5940025565853964253?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5940025565853964253'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5940025565853964253'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/06/personal-debt-help-enquiries-surge-in.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com/&quot;&gt;Personal Debt Help Enquiries Surge in June&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1854697601446452581</id><published>2008-05-31T21:09:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:10:46.719Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>Clear Personal Debts with an IVA, Debt Consolidation or Debt Management</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;If you wish to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;clear personal debts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; without having to increase your borrowings further, you may wish to consider a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-management-plan"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Debt Management Plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; or &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;IVA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;, these &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;personal debt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; solutions can &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;clear debt&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; without &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;loans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;. They are a form of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;debt consolidation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; that help people who have previously been &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-conolidation/loans/loan-refused"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;refused credit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;. They also help you avoid &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you afraid of what &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;debt collection letter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; from which company is going to drop into your mail box next? Are your &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;creditors calling you&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; at work or at home, daily? You may even be &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/self-debt-management"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;dealing directly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; with your creditors, sometimes known as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/self-debt-management"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;self debt management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;. This can be difficult and we can advise you further. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can assist you to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;clear debts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; today! Call free and we will do the rest! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call 0800 018 6868 in total confidence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1854697601446452581?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1854697601446452581'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1854697601446452581'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/05/clear-personal-debts-with-iva-debt.html' title='Clear Personal Debts with an IVA, Debt Consolidation or Debt Management'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-6159023453670234582</id><published>2008-05-03T01:44:00.014+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:08:11.069Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='become'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><title type='text'>Become clear of debt with direct help &amp; advice</title><content type='html'>If you are struggling with your finances and require &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt help&lt;/a&gt; or advice, try using a company that offers a free helpline as a starting point. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Companies that charge you for advice are not helping you! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; companies, that originally set up as sole &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; providers, are now chasing vulnerable &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt; clients, as they are unable to sustain the levels of enquiries they had become accustomed to over the last few years whilst solely providing &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal insolvency solutions&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is strange as the models of some of these businesses were originally based on IVA operations but they seem to be operating in all sectors of late. When a personal &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;insolvency company&lt;/a&gt; starts to move in a particular direction that it has been known to have portrayed previously as weak or a little none compliant, it can NOT only be based on changing times, they are possibly struggling to maintain existing levels of turnover from sole provision of the original service offered and this some what compromises the high esteem they may have previously been held in by some! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander urges people to seek advice from specialist companies and the consumer should ask the company offering the advice if they are privately or publicly owned. This can sometimes be evidence to the consumer of the true intent behind the company ethos, will they at all stages be compliant in their dealings and advice, whilst trying on the other hand to obtain income of sales to sustain hungry investor appetites? Or, are they privately owned and investing in their clients future high level of service by concentrating on improving the service experience current clients enjoy? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real intention of any &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; company should be to help the vulnerable consumer &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;clear personal debts&lt;/a&gt; as quickly as possible. This is not all ways the case. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please note that only an IVA can clear debts in 60 months or 5 years. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debt Management will clear your debts and suits many people but no fixed time period or end date can be promised, any individual or company claiming to be able to offer an exact end date for the debt management plan is lying! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For friendly advice regarding all personal debt solutions, please call FREE using 0800 018 6868&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-6159023453670234582?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/6159023453670234582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/6159023453670234582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/05/become-debt-free-with-direct-help.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Become clear of debt with direct help &amp; advice&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2175144208850073013</id><published>2008-04-16T23:22:00.004+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.601Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unemployment'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='redundancy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='unemployed'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><title type='text'>Employment problems whilst struggling with personal debt?</title><content type='html'>If you fear you are about to be made redundant or have recently lost your job, do not prioritise the repayments of your &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal unsecured debts&lt;/a&gt;.  For example, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;credit cards&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans"&gt;personal loans&lt;/a&gt;, catalogues etc. You MUST make sure you pay your priority debts and repayments first, such as, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/mortgage-credit-checks"&gt;Mortgage&lt;/a&gt;, Rent, Council Tax, Electricity, Gas, TV license. If you allow arrears to build up or bills for the home get out of control, you could end up losing your home or dwellings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We help many people understand which bills need paying first and which should take a back seat for the time being, we are not saying that &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;unsecured debts&lt;/a&gt; should be ignored, quite the opposite, however, with a little sound advice it is quite amazing how easily a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt problem&lt;/a&gt; can sometimes be solved.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you fear you are about to be made &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/redundancy-and-debt"&gt;redundant&lt;/a&gt; or need help regarding &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/disability-debt"&gt;benefits&lt;/a&gt; available, their are many organisations that can help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Personal debt&lt;/a&gt; in the workplace can be very difficult to deal with. Others around you are most probably going through the very same feelings of &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/stress-and-debt"&gt;stress and worry&lt;/a&gt;. Do not suffer alone, call our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; in confidence and sleep peacefully tonight!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call 0800 018 6868 FREE today, it only takes one call to start to clear a debt problem!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2175144208850073013?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2175144208850073013'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2175144208850073013'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/04/employment-problems-whilst-struggling.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Employment problems whilst struggling with personal debt?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2624783067112715928</id><published>2008-04-12T15:32:00.016+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.604Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sale'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='crunch'/><title type='text'>In Personal Debt during a "Credit Crunch" House Sale?</title><content type='html'>Every day, the calls keep coming from people who need to clear their &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debts&lt;/a&gt; but who also have their property currently on the open market for sale. Where is the problem you ask?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A own a property, that they believe is worth and currently being marketed for £300,000 and the house has been up for sale for 3 months without any viewings, it is likely they will have to asses what is going to be the reason why a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/home-buyer-service"&gt;potential buyer&lt;/a&gt; would buy their house before the next one available at the same or slightly lower price, it is about knowing the market in which you are selling your home!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not the point though, most people think their house is the one that will sell, it is our nature to prefer our own houses, cars, holidays etc....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A also have unsecured &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;credit card debts&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;personal loan&lt;/a&gt; agreements outstanding that total approximately £35,000. The interest on the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; is accruing daily and their ability to repay more than the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;minimum payments&lt;/a&gt; is limited and becoming more so as the months move on. Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A believe that when they sell their house they will pay off their &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.co.uk/"&gt;personal debts&lt;/a&gt;, it is quite simple!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Or is it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A may not sell their house for another 6 months, it may not sell at all!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the current climate, the case could be that Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A sell their house for a lot less than they originally thought meaning less equity to pay off the debts after the sale. Whilst waiting to sell the house the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;interest and charges on the personal debt&lt;/a&gt; has increased the total amount now owing to possibly £37,500-40,000. It all depends on the interest accruing on the debt outstanding!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point is simple, people should not put all their"eggs in one basket".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr &amp;amp; Mrs A should make plans to deal with or take advice regarding the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;unsecured debt&lt;/a&gt; level and possibly reduce it whilst trying to sell the house. The concern of keeping the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings"&gt;credit score&lt;/a&gt; in tact is a little like "shutting the stable door once the horse has bolted".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For more advice regarding personal &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems"&gt;debt problems&lt;/a&gt; and ways around managing your debt through the sale of your home in a volatile market, please call today using 0800 018 6868, our lines are open 24 hours, your call is FREE and dealt with in total confidence.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2624783067112715928?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2624783067112715928'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2624783067112715928'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/04/in-personal-debt-during-credit-crunch.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com/&quot;&gt;In Personal Debt during a &quot;Credit Crunch&quot; House Sale?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-7702707571987371417</id><published>2008-04-01T20:47:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:44:12.322Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='april'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='planning'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fool'/><title type='text'>Why FOOL around with Personal Debt in April?</title><content type='html'>April is not a time to be fooling around if you have &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems"&gt;personal debt problems&lt;/a&gt;. It is a time when if careful, you can really plan a solid financial routine for the rest of the year. Christmas was only round the last corner and it will be Summer soon. You do not want to be worrying about court actions and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/legal-proceedings"&gt;solicitor letters from credit companies&lt;/a&gt; and their collection agents when you could be out enjoying the spring and summer air! Get your finances sorted! If you are still reading this article you are either genuinely interested or seriously over committed with personal debt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander helps many people every day to consolidate their personal debts or just gain friendly advice to set them on the road to their own managed financial stability.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hard part of a sound financial life is good planning, when you start it really is quite simple, it is the thought of delving into the unknown that is the frightening part and this can stop most of us being financially OK!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This article is designed to get you thinking about how you could better plan the rest of your year financially if trying to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear debt&lt;/a&gt;, what would you like to buy friends or family for birthdays and Christmas this year? There are 5 simple letters you must remember and can apply to your finances and most areas of your life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PPPPP - Perfect Planning Prevents Pathetic Performance!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you need advice on personal debt problems and you are a UK resident over 18, please contact &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/contact-us"&gt;Lewis Alexander Financial Planning&lt;/a&gt;, online or visit our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-help"&gt;debt help&lt;/a&gt; website for further details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can help with &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;personal loans&lt;/a&gt; and an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/trust-deed"&gt;Trust Deeds&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call  &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;/a&gt;  FREE today in total confidence!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-7702707571987371417?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7702707571987371417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7702707571987371417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/04/why-fool-around-with-personal-debt-in.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Why FOOL around with Personal Debt in April?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5978213101557245365</id><published>2008-03-30T14:06:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.609Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='partner not aware'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alone'/><title type='text'>Alone in Personal Debt, Partner NOT Aware?</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Are you living alone and suffering with the stress and worry of &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; issues or problems.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;You may be living with a partner or married and unable to share your concerns due to worry of affecting your relationship. This is very common be you &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/partner-not-aware"&gt;alone or just unable to talk to anyone&lt;/a&gt;. Most people that call our &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; understand that they are not alone once they speak with a trained advisor.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Credit companies are trying to obtain as much of your disposable income (the money you have spare each month after bills and living costs) as possible, there are rules for lenders on how much they can lend people and the industry term for this is "Responsible Lending".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;It basically means that if a lender thinks, that after looking through and investigating your income and expenditure (a financial statement on your self) that you are unable to afford repayments on a new proposed loan, they MUST NOT lend you the money. If you encountered a further change in circumstance for the worse, you may not be able to repay the lender the money you borrowed. Not lending the money in this instance where an individual can not afford to repay is now known as "Responsible Lending" on behalf of the lender which can only be seen as most commendable. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;A great number of consumers get frustrated and tempered with loan providers and their &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;loan brokers&lt;/a&gt; when unable to get the acceptance for the credit they so need or want. This is not the lenders fault or problem, consumers must take responsibility also for their past and make more responsible decisions by thinking more long term regarding their money and financial status.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The finance industry is like most "a double edged sword" on the one side you have the compliant companies who respect people and their personal situations, on the other side are the more unscrupulous companies that prey on the vulnerable consumer.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;At Lewis Alexander we offer &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;impartial financial advice&lt;/a&gt; regarding all personal debt issues, do not &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/partner-not-aware"&gt;suffer alone&lt;/a&gt; and do not be afraid of talking with us if you fear your partner and their reaction. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Did you know, more people are more likely to speak and be open with their partner about an extra marital affair or relationship they have had than the problems they have gotten into regarding personal debt and finances?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Call today to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear debt&lt;/a&gt; using 0800 018 6868, your call is FREE and dealt with in the strictest confidence!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5978213101557245365?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5978213101557245365'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5978213101557245365'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/03/alone-in-personal-debt-partner-not.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/partner-not-aware&quot;&gt;Alone in Personal Debt, Partner NOT Aware?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2397877105019841425</id><published>2008-03-28T02:36:00.011Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.612Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='det'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card'/><title type='text'>Credit Cards &amp; Debt Help - IVA or Debt Management?</title><content type='html'>Credit cards are the biggest problem in most peoples financial arrears. Most of us try and keep up with the plastic before paying anything else, such as rent and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/mortgage-credit-checks"&gt;mortgages&lt;/a&gt;! Yes, people are actually paying for their mortgages and their rent using their credit facilities. When we try and explain to vulnerable consumers that they must prioritise their debts by paying the most important first, they seem shocked as though the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;credit card companies&lt;/a&gt; will be upset.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An upset credit card company is much better than an eviction order from your landlord or your mortgage lender advising you that they are to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/home-buyer-service"&gt;repossess your home &lt;/a&gt;or ask you to vacate your rented dwellings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can't stress enough the importance of making the repayments on &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;loans&lt;/a&gt; or other debts secured against your home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Credit card companies only want you to pay the minimum on your &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;credit card repayments&lt;/a&gt;, if you pay more than the minimum required you will be &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear your debt&lt;/a&gt; and then you won't owe them any money, this is not good for your credit card company, however, it is the right direction for you!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation"&gt;interest on credit cards&lt;/a&gt; is designed to increase not reduce, these companies are waiting for you to suffer a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/debt-cycle"&gt;change in personal circumstances&lt;/a&gt; such as a death in the family, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/redundancy-and-debt"&gt;loss of job&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/redundancy-and-debt"&gt;less hours at work&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/divorce-and-debt"&gt;split from partner or divorce&lt;/a&gt;. These changes in circumstance are not all ways negative unpleasant ones. A &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/pregnancy_debt_help.asp"&gt;new baby&lt;/a&gt; or a wedding can easily set us back for years. The credit industry has a much clearer crystal ball than the vulnerable consumer. They can see your changes before you know you are due them. it is just the way credit companies work but please do not let them work you out of YOUR home!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For further information on how to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear credit card debt&lt;/a&gt; and other &lt;strong&gt;personal debt help&lt;/strong&gt;, please call free using 0800 018 6868 or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/contact-us"&gt;contact us online&lt;/a&gt;....&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2397877105019841425?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2397877105019841425'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2397877105019841425'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/03/credit-cards-debt-help-iva-or-debt.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Credit Cards &amp; Debt Help - IVA or Debt Management?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-7590424121606429307</id><published>2008-03-05T00:24:00.011Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:06:46.566Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>IVA take up rate 12% of Debt Consolidation enquiries!</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;The take up rate for the personal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;IVA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; at Lewis Alexander is 12%.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The company specialises in the Personal &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Debt Management&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; sector and has done so successfully since February 2003. The information released is based upon enquiries that are generated from the initial enquiry to a live conversion into a Lewis Alexander client. The IVA work is outsourced to preselected Insolvency Practitioners.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The remaining 88% splits down into 63% opting for a Lewis Alexander &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/debt_management.asp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Debt Management Plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; and the final remainder choose options such as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;bankruptcy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans/secured-loans"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;loan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; options where available.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The figure is surprising as the general market place of personal debt advice and help services seems to be direct selling the IVA! Lewis Alexander are proud to offer the client a full explanation where necessary so as to enable the consumer to make an informed decision. This could be adopted as best practice amongst all companies and implemented on a compliance basis by a regulator.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The industry could then adopt an accepted standard conversion rate for a compliant fee charging advisory service.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main problem Lewis Alexander has encountered with the funding and floatation's of IVA PLC companies, dating back to 2004, is that the individual choosing to enter into an IVA over a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.debtmanagement-debtmanagement.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Debt Management Plan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; or Voluntary Petition for Bankruptcy is no different in there make up, they are still only human! The point being is that the individual is open to exactly the same changes in circumstances over the next 5 years that has created the need for action in the first place. The Debt Management Plan may not be as rewarding in fees as an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iva-iva.co.uk/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;IVA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; to the operating company but is sometimes a preferred approach for advice when the advisor has the experience the client does not!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, companies are in business to make money but at this end of the financial sector there should be an element of caution as the detriment to the consumer can be catastrophic if the consumers IVA fails due to their lack of continuity of payment etc,,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Debt Management Plan is not a legally binding agreement and is informal between client and creditor. Therefore, the "City of London" or financial institutions raising funds for floatation's have avoided &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Debt Management Companies&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; in the main. This is why some of the IVA companies or IVA factories have scurried around making acquisitions that seem still to be proven on a profitability basis. These companies surely could not have floated as Debt Management operations but did create great projections and share rushes, then proceeded to buy Debt Management companies in a bid to keep their bottom line positive and reduce the cost per client acquisitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander has previously rejected take over bids from a certain &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;IVA&lt;/span&gt; company&lt;/a&gt; due to this mind set as described above. The take over would have affected the success enjoyed by both client and employee when clearing debts, coupled with the excellent balance of impeccable client retention rates with outstanding abilities to generate new enquiries that convert into acquisitions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost to an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;IVA company&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; to generate an acquisition had reached £1000 over the last 2 years and in some cases more. These companies business models are costly and when compared to the Lewis Alexander CPA of an IVA at £150, it seems outrageous. Is the sector finished as a direct sell arena and where will the money makers move next?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We can confirm that the only PLC involvement at Lewis Alexander is Profitability, Liquidity &amp;amp; Capital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-7590424121606429307?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7590424121606429307'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7590424121606429307'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/03/iva-take-up-rate-12.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;IVA take up rate 12% of Debt Consolidation enquiries!&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-7561154156883375676</id><published>2008-03-03T18:31:00.017Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:13:10.396Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cashplus'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mastercard'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='prepaid'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='card'/><title type='text'>Debt Management Company offers Prepaid Mastercard</title><content type='html'>If you have no &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/basic-bank-accounts"&gt;bank account&lt;/a&gt;, no &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/credit-card-debt"&gt;credit cards&lt;/a&gt; or currently on a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/debt_management.asp"&gt;debt management plan&lt;/a&gt; and you struggle to pay for goods or services online, or over the telephone, you need a Prepaid &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Mastercard&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/basic-bank-accounts/prepaid-credit-card"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5173587406834767666" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R8xGVe7SFzI/AAAAAAAAACQ/pxbuIuBcohk/s320/go-gold-234x60bannerv2.gif" style="cursor: hand;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/basic-bank-accounts/prepaid-credit-card"&gt;apply online&lt;/a&gt; and you are &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/mastercard_prepaid.asp"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;GUARANTEED&lt;/span&gt; ACCEPTANCE&lt;/a&gt;. Have a read and make your own choice, we think everyone should have one in their wallet!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-7561154156883375676?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7561154156883375676'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/7561154156883375676'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/03/debt-management-company-offers-prepaid.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/basic-bank-accounts/prepaid-credit-card&quot;&gt;Debt Management Company offers Prepaid Mastercard&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R8xGVe7SFzI/AAAAAAAAACQ/pxbuIuBcohk/s72-c/go-gold-234x60bannerv2.gif' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5900401584016300530</id><published>2008-03-03T18:31:00.015Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.618Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='experian'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='check'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fee'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>IVA or Debt Management? - Get a FREE Credit Check from Experian before you decide</title><content type='html'>Before you decide on either a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;Debt Management Plan&lt;/a&gt; or an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/iva.asp"&gt;Individual Voluntary Arrangement&lt;/a&gt;, make sure you have checked your current &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/dbt-advice/credit-ratings"&gt;credit status&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a onmouseover="window.status='http://www.creditexpert.co.uk';return true;" onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href="http://www.jdoqocy.com/an116ft1zt0GJLKNJNIGIHKNMNMK" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img height="250" alt="" src="http://www.tqlkg.com/nn75c37w1-LOQPSOSNLNMPSRSRP" width="300" align="center" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;This is important as it will show you what is on record about your &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/repair-credit-rating"&gt;financial history&lt;/a&gt;. You do not want to carry on as though this information does not exist and once you read it, things on the report seem less frightening than you thought. If anything, it is a good starting point for any &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice"&gt;debt advisor&lt;/a&gt; to help you from, as it is easily read by people who are reading them daily.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can get a free credit report online from &lt;a href="http://www.experian.co.uk/"&gt;Experian&lt;/a&gt; in the UK.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5900401584016300530?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5900401584016300530'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5900401584016300530'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/03/iva-or-debt-management-get-free-credit.html' title='IVA or Debt Management? - Get a FREE Credit Check from Experian before you decide'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2606350057846807088</id><published>2008-02-29T21:53:00.007Z</published><updated>2010-01-28T00:01:26.913Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='puppy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='appeal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dog'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='blind'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='guide'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sponsor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dogs'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>Proud Sponsors of Guide Dogs for the Blind</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/"&gt;The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association&lt;/a&gt; of the UK is constantly seeking funding from any source as there is no government funding available to the charity. Lewis Alexander &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation"&gt;Debt Consolidation Services&lt;/a&gt; is a &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/sponsored-charity"&gt;proud sponsor of Guide Dogs&lt;/a&gt; and should any visitors be in the fortunate position financially to contribute, it would be most kind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/"&gt;Guide Dogs&lt;/a&gt;, meet the puppies!&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/sponsored-charity"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2606350057846807088?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.lewisalexander.com/guide_dogs_appeal.asp' title='Proud Sponsors of Guide Dogs for the Blind'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2606350057846807088'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2606350057846807088'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/02/proud-sponsors-of-guide-dogs.html' title='Proud Sponsors of Guide Dogs for the Blind'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-3176274422658273876</id><published>2008-02-27T23:19:00.009Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.623Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='launched'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='broker'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='larry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lewis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>UK Debt Consolidation Company launches Larry the Loan Broker</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander Financial Management has launched a &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;secured loan brokerage&lt;/a&gt; called &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;Larry the Loan Broker&lt;/a&gt;. Larry is based on a Texan theme and was delivered on time and in budget by &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/not_normal_loans_uk.asp"&gt;not normal mEdia&lt;/a&gt; of Manchester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object title="Larry the Loan Broker - All purpose Loans - Apply online" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="75" width="500" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="13229"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="1984"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Ads/banner_ad.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Ads/banner_ad.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;     &lt;br /&gt;      &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;embed src="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Ads/banner_ad.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="75"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Products on offer include &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/secured_loans.asp"&gt;secured home loans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/payday_loans.asp"&gt;payday loans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/unsecured_loans.asp"&gt;unsecured all purpose loans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/debt_consolidation_loans.asp"&gt;debt consolidation loans&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/refused_a_loan.asp"&gt;refused loan advice&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander believe the new brokerage should only compliment the existing &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;Debt Management&lt;/a&gt; departments, making the company a "Turn Key" solution for consumers seeking help to clear personal debts in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Larry will be advertised online and on &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/drtv_advert_Larry_the_loan_broker.mov"&gt;national UK television&lt;/a&gt;. This is a very similar model operated by &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/tv-advert"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt;. The &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/drtv_advert_Larry_the_loan_broker.mov"&gt;Larry DRTV advert&lt;/a&gt; is due to air in the Spring of this year (2008).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For further information or to apply for a personal loan in the UK visit Larry online @ &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-3176274422658273876?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/3176274422658273876'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/3176274422658273876'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/02/uk-debt-consolidation-company-launches.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;UK Debt Consolidation Company launches Larry the Loan Broker&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4705664231248923190</id><published>2008-02-14T11:33:00.006Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.623Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><title type='text'>IVA Companies Failing to Maximise! warns Uk Debt Management Specialist</title><content type='html'>IVA companies are finding it increasingly difficult to convince consumers to enter into an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some companies push the IVA over other options available such as &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/debt_management.asp"&gt;Debt Management&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/bankruptcy.asp"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;. The consumer does not get a fair explanation and then the end result can be quite a shock for the person who has entered into the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans/loan-refused"&gt;Ability to borrow&lt;/a&gt; can be delayed for many years after the IVA has ended and certain restrictions can be very tiresome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Debt management plans have been given a hard time with bad press over the years but it is quite amazing how many people prefer to take them and when operated by a good company those clients also complete the plans!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt; advise many people every day, help is available 24 hours, call free 0800 018 6868&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4705664231248923190?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4705664231248923190'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4705664231248923190'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/02/iva-plc-companies-failing-to-maximise.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;IVA Companies Failing to Maximise! warns Uk Debt Management Specialist&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4321148622367709483</id><published>2008-02-11T19:52:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:06:12.749Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>IVA, Debt Management, Bankruptcy Help &amp; Loans</title><content type='html'>Regardless of the type of personal debt you may have, you will at some point of dealing with your problem, consider one of the following options available to clear debt in the Uk,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.consumerdebtmanagement.co.uk/"&gt;Debt Management&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/bankruptcy.asp"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/debt_consolidation_loans.asp"&gt;Consolidation Loans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice"&gt;Debt Advice&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;for more help and advice if you are currently suffering please contact us free today for a&amp;nbsp;consultation.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4321148622367709483?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4321148622367709483'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4321148622367709483'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/02/iva-debt-management-bankruptcy-help.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;IVA, Debt Management, Bankruptcy Help &amp; Loans&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-57072621887097462</id><published>2008-01-25T00:23:00.006Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.630Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='normal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='not'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='company'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><title type='text'>IVA &amp; Debt Management Company call in Not Normal Media</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander Limited announced earlier today that the new 2008/9 advertising contract has been awarded to &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/"&gt;not normal Media&lt;/a&gt;, also known as Not Normal Limited of Manchester.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The 2008 campaigns will commence &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/not_normal_web_design_Uk.asp"&gt;online&lt;/a&gt; and offline in March 2008 and run continuously until Jan 31st 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main focus of the campaigns will be on increasing the existing response from the &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/not_normal_tv.asp"&gt;DRTV&lt;/a&gt; success enjoyed since 2005. The main reason why Lewis Alexander are so successful in such high cost &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/"&gt;advertising&lt;/a&gt; mediums is due to vast experience of the current board of directors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Managing Director, Richard Johnson said, " We are delighted with the news and selection of the &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/"&gt;not normal &lt;/a&gt;agency. We have been advised to acquire the agency to allow greater control of spend for Lewis Alexander, the agency does not have a vast client base so this approach seemed sensible considering the time they had scheduled the Lewis Alexander Account. We were mainly impressed by their quality not quantity approach. This will be a very exciting time for both companies and new clients should benefit from an ease of finding our services when most at need".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The cost per client acquisition for Lewis Alexander has ridiculed that of its IVA competition stated in the national press and the Debt Management arm of the business operates in perfect synergy with the loan brokerage and IVA department.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The advertising contract won by &lt;a href="http://www.not-normal-media.co.uk/"&gt;not normal media&lt;/a&gt; is said to be worth in the region of 1/4 Million GBP spend over the next 12 month period. Both companies have worked together briefly on new products for Lewis Alexander and see a mutually beneficial relationship ahead. The fee paid for not normal ltd remains undisclosed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For further information on Lewis Alexander visit &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;http://www.lewisalexander.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-57072621887097462?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.lewisalexander.com/2008/01/iva-debt-management-company-call-in-not.html' title='IVA &amp; Debt Management Company call in Not Normal Media'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/57072621887097462'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/57072621887097462'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/iva-debt-management-company-call-in-not.html' title='IVA &amp; Debt Management Company call in Not Normal Media'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5136001840637575966</id><published>2008-01-25T00:23:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.632Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fisa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='secured'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lewis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='approved'/><title type='text'>FISA registration APPROVED for Lewis Alexander Limited</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.fisa.co.uk/"&gt;FISA&lt;/a&gt; (Financial Industry Standards Association) have approved the Lewis Alexander Limited application for registered membership.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The membership is based on a one year probationary period as set out by FISA.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lewis Alexander team are elated by the news of successful membership and look forward to the compliant benefit of such accreditation.  Lewis Alexander do hope that the news will entice other finance companies of all sizes to aspire to such industry standards to remain compliant and consumer friendly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5136001840637575966?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5136001840637575966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5136001840637575966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/fisa-registration-approved-for-lewis.html' title='FISA registration APPROVED for Lewis Alexander Limited'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5082341614122442189</id><published>2008-01-17T15:46:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.634Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='enforcement'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='order'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='restriction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='orders'/><title type='text'>Enforcement Restriction Orders for 2010, will it affect the IVA &amp; Debt Management</title><content type='html'>The Press Association have reported that the Government plans to introduce an initiative called the Enforcement Restriction Order. This is designed to assist people who have been subjected to a change in personal circumstances who have personal debts outstanding that can't be immediately repaid.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In essence it is a facility for consumers to approach a &lt;a href="http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk/"&gt;county court &lt;/a&gt;and ask for an order to be placed which allows them a PAYMENT HOLIDAY suspending due payments for up to one year. Interest would still accrue on accounts but late payment charges would be waived during the payment holiday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courts would be expected to make the Enforcement Restriction Order difficult to obtain if the consumer is not struggling with a catalogue of low value debts. &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/mortgage-credit-checks"&gt;Mortgages&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/student-debt"&gt;Student Loans &lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp; Child Maintenance would be excluded from any Enforcement Restriction Order&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5082341614122442189?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5082341614122442189'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5082341614122442189'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/enforcement-restriction-orders-for-2010.html' title='Enforcement Restriction Orders for 2010, will it affect the IVA &amp; Debt Management'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-8469646670287002059</id><published>2008-01-16T17:46:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.636Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fisa'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lender'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alexander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='secured'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='credit'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='applies'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lewis'/><title type='text'>Uk iVA &amp; Debt Management Co. applies for FISA accreditation</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander Financial Management of Manchester, has applied for &lt;a href="http://www.fisa.co.uk/"&gt;FISA&lt;/a&gt; membership.  Lewis Alexander Ltd has done this for a number of reasons,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;To enable consumer applications for &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/"&gt;loans&lt;/a&gt; where a client circumstance allows.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A greater product range on offer complimenting the existing &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; &amp;amp; &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;Debt Management &lt;/a&gt;departments.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;To allow the company to make strong directional movements towards &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans/secured-loans"&gt;secured&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/unsecured_loans.asp"&gt;unsecured&lt;/a&gt; borrowing markets whilst creating extra advice services for the Uk consumer.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Financial Director claims that this will make Lewis Alexander a dominant player within the Uk Personal Finance Industry within the next 12 months.   Profitability remains high and re-invested but not excessive based on turnover.  The company is excited about the potential &lt;a href="http://www.fisa.co.uk/"&gt;FISA&lt;/a&gt; accreditation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;For more information on Lewis Alexander please follow this link.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-8469646670287002059?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8469646670287002059'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/8469646670287002059'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-iva-debt-management-co-applies-for.html' title='Uk iVA &amp; Debt Management Co. applies for FISA accreditation'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1830214646577496075</id><published>2008-01-12T20:44:00.006Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:17:39.466Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='line'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hour'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='24'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><title type='text'>24Hr IVA &amp; Debt Management helpline is LIVE!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt; are proud to anounce that since 1st January 2008 they have conducted a 24 hour advice solution for Uk consumers troubled by &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;personal debt problems&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main difference between this helpline and the other free charitable ones available is simple, the advors are funded by Lewis Alexander Limited therefore the advice is &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;impartial&lt;/a&gt; of the credit companies most consumers owe. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The free charites are in the main funded by well known creditors. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander operate this only with the absolute dedication of a committed team and are certain that after the initial trial period the helpline should remain open until further notice. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call free using 0800 018 6868, your call will be dealt with in total confidence!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1830214646577496075?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1830214646577496075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1830214646577496075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/24hr-iva-debt-management-helpline-is.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;24Hr IVA &amp; Debt Management helpline is LIVE!&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1881401550011757835</id><published>2008-01-11T00:00:00.004Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:17:56.732Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sell'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='beware'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='house'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='charging'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='force'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creditor'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='order'/><title type='text'>Beware of the Charging Order!  Get Free help</title><content type='html'>The &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/legal-proceedings"&gt;Charging Order&lt;/a&gt; is seeing a surge in demand from credtors rushing to turn unsecured debts into county court judgements (CCJ's) then allowing for the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/legal-proceedings"&gt;Charging Order&lt;/a&gt; process to begin.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lewis Alexander are offering help to their clients with Charging Order proceedings as in most cases there is evidence of unfair &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/debt-collection"&gt;collection&lt;/a&gt; procedures by &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/creditors"&gt;creditors&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All personal debt must be collected compliantly by the respective collection company or creditor. There are guidelines in place to protect consumers from unlawful collection procedures and we advise any individual being bullied by their creditors to cotact our free debt helpline for further advice and information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;http://www.lewisalexander.com/&lt;/a&gt;Lines are open 24 hours 0800 018 6868&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1881401550011757835?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1881401550011757835'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1881401550011757835'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/beware-of-charging-order.html' title='Beware of the Charging Order!  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(by Debt Management &amp; IVA experts)</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander Ltd offers an all year round "&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/financial-healthcheck"&gt;Financial HealthCheck&lt;/a&gt;". If you call the freephone helpline they can check within the first 3 minutes of your advisor call to see if you are financially sound or heading for the cycle of personal debt!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The NHS may offer a free health check in January but Lewis Alexander beleive this should be available for finances all year round whilst remaining free to the client. So they have set this up at their own cost and have reported that 75% of callers have really appreciated the advice so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Dial Uk +44 (0) 800 018 6868 further information on the Lewis Alexander FREE FINANCIAL HEALTH CHECK&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5303603251127158815?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5303603251127158815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5303603251127158815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/free-financial-health-check-all-year.html' title='Free Financial health Check, All year round! (by Debt Management &amp; IVA experts)'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4719763878541314711</id><published>2008-01-06T00:25:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.644Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv advert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><title type='text'>Lewis Alexander Debt Management Help, UK TV Advert</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/tv-advert"&gt;As seen on national TV in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object id="video" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=" height="350" width="375" align="middle" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"&gt;&lt;param name="_cx" value="9922"&gt;&lt;param name="_cy" value="9260"&gt;&lt;param name="FlashVars" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Movie" value="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Ads/video.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="Src" value="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Ads/video.swf"&gt;&lt;param name="WMode" value="Window"&gt;&lt;param name="Play" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Loop" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Quality" value="High"&gt;&lt;param name="SAlign" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="Menu" value="-1"&gt;&lt;param name="Base" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="AllowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain"&gt;&lt;param name="Scale" value="ShowAll"&gt;&lt;param name="DeviceFont" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="EmbedMovie" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="BGColor" value="FFFFFF"&gt;&lt;param name="SWRemote" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="MovieData" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="SeamlessTabbing" value="1"&gt;&lt;param name="Profile" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="ProfileAddress" value=""&gt;&lt;param name="ProfilePort" value="0"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowNetworking" value="all"&gt;&lt;param name="AllowFullScreen" value="false"&gt;&lt;br /&gt; 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are set to take British consumers over the edge warns the &lt;a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c4fbe5a8-bb30-11dc-9fbc-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1"&gt;FT&lt;/a&gt; website.   Most of us have debts but how many have them secured against homes?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please take advice before securing debts against your home, we can help!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4643103001628962005?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4643103001628962005'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4643103001628962005'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/uk-national-debt-charities-warn-on.html' title='UK National Debt Charities warn on Dangerous Levels of Personal Debt'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-4233657152863527019</id><published>2008-01-05T03:36:00.006Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.649Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='secured'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trouble'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='problems'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><title type='text'>"Not a Surprise" states Uk Debt Management Company Director</title><content type='html'>Richard Johnson, Managing Director of &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Lewis Alexander Financial Management&lt;/a&gt; stated earlier today that it was "Not a Surprise" that the British consumer is so heavily troubled with personal financial &lt;a href="http://www.debt-problems-uk.co.uk/"&gt;problems&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For the last 5 years, Mr Johnson has personally advised clients NOT to secure their current unsecured debts against their homes. "All it takes is a rise in interest rates as we have all seen to make sharp rises in monthly mortgage repayments. People just look for the easy option when in fact the most economical ways of clearing personal debts are usually the most severe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are not suggesting that all people consider &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; arrangements or even &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;Debt Management&lt;/a&gt; Plans. We simply feel that secured loans are only right for certain situations and the evaluations of these over the last few years could have been stronger!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The help is on hand for those serious about sorting their finances for good! The hardest part for people is making the first call for help. We understand that and are very sympathetic to the needs of our clients" &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-4233657152863527019?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4233657152863527019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/4233657152863527019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/not-surprise-states-uk-debt-management.html' title='&quot;Not a Surprise&quot; states Uk Debt Management Company Director'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-1887564905646096486</id><published>2008-01-05T02:00:00.003Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:20:43.554Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='collection'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='bankruptcy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='collectors'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><title type='text'>30,000 Brits head for Bankruptcy by End of March 08</title><content type='html'>The BBC reports that 30,000 plus Uk residents are facing &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva/bankruptcy"&gt;Bankruptcy&lt;/a&gt; in the first 3 months of this year. &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/bankruptcy.asp"&gt;Lewis Alexander&lt;/a&gt; beleive that the figures are lower than the reality will be!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;Debt help&lt;/a&gt; and advice needs taking early to stop &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/creditor-threats/debt-collection"&gt;debt collectors&lt;/a&gt; in their tracks.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-1887564905646096486?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1887564905646096486'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/1887564905646096486'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/30000-brits-head-for-bankruptcy-by-end.html' title='30,000 Brits head for Bankruptcy by End of March 08'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-3429555292860594247</id><published>2008-01-04T22:30:00.003Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.653Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='recession'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='about us'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='economy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='business'/><title type='text'>US Economy close to Recession</title><content type='html'>The U.S. economy is ``very close'' to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/debt-help/business-debt-help"&gt;recession&lt;/a&gt;, ``if not there already,'' was said in an interview on Bloomberg Television by Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund acting as Pacific Investment Management Co.'s chief investment officer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-3429555292860594247?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/3429555292860594247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/3429555292860594247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/us-economy-close-to-recession.html' title='US Economy close to Recession'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-2571139910122286922</id><published>2008-01-04T21:07:00.001Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.656Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='citizens'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cab'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>CAB reports increase again in Personal Debt Helpline requests</title><content type='html'>People seeking &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;financial advice&lt;/a&gt; from Ipswich Citizens Advice Bureau. has increased drastically compared with the same period of the previous year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4,200 plus people sought &lt;a href="http://www.help-debt.co.uk/"&gt;debt help&lt;/a&gt; from the bureau in six months Debts of between &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/debt_management.asp"&gt;£10,000 and £30,000&lt;/a&gt; are most common. Some cases are between &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/iva.asp"&gt;£50,000 and £60,000&lt;/a&gt; without incorporating &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/credit-ratings/mortgage-credit-checks"&gt;mortgages&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="http://www.larrytheloanbroker.co.uk/secured_loans.asp"&gt;Secured Loans&lt;/a&gt; are also becoming a problem for alot of &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/home-buyer-service"&gt;home owners&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="50" alt="Lewis Alexander Ltd - Debt management" src="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Images/lewisalexander_150x50.jpg" width="150" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-2571139910122286922?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2571139910122286922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/2571139910122286922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/cab-reports-increase-again-in-personal.html' title='CAB reports increase again in Personal Debt Helpline requests'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5416117092355774965</id><published>2008-01-04T02:32:00.005Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.656Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='refused'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='clear'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='loans'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>Refused Loans, Need Debt Help?</title><content type='html'>If you have been &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-consolidation/loans/loan-refused"&gt;refused loans&lt;/a&gt; it is no use keep on applying for more credit when the banks and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/creditors"&gt;lenders&lt;/a&gt; will not provide! Accept that debt help or &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management"&gt;debt management&lt;/a&gt; or an &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/iva"&gt;IVA&lt;/a&gt; at an extreme, can &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear debt&lt;/a&gt; without further borrowings,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call free today, and STOP applying for those loans!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;0800 018 6868&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5416117092355774965?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5416117092355774965'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5416117092355774965'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/refused-loans-need-debt-help.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Refused Loans, Need Debt Help?&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5427806715315425291</id><published>2008-01-04T02:32:00.004Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.658Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dla'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disabled'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='disability'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='allowance'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><title type='text'>In Debt on DLA? Debt and Disability Living Allowance Uk</title><content type='html'>Financial difficulties and debt are often neglected when a family has to start dealing with the onset of &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-information/disability-debt"&gt;disability&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The disability can cause a major drop in income as well as a major increase in expenses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Get the debt help you may need if &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/benefits_and_disability.asp"&gt;disabled and in debt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Call the Lewis Alexander &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-mangement/free-debt-helpline"&gt;free debt helpline&lt;/a&gt; today!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img height="100" alt="Free Debt Help - Lewis Alexander Ltd" src="http://www.lewisalexander.com/Images/Freedebthelp_450x100.jpg" width="450" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5427806715315425291?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5427806715315425291'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5427806715315425291'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/in-debt-on-dla-debt-and-disability.html' title='In Debt on DLA? Debt and Disability Living Allowance Uk'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-5464644978593920171</id><published>2008-01-03T18:35:00.009Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.661Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='free debt helpline'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice free'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><title type='text'>Rush to get Personal Debt advice in 2008 Started!</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.tv/"&gt;Debt Services&lt;/a&gt; have reported via their Uk Telephony exchange, that calls to their &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-management/free-debt-helpline"&gt;Free Debt Helpline&lt;/a&gt; during the first 48hours of trading in January 2008 are triple the same period last year in Jan 2007.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-5464644978593920171?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5464644978593920171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/5464644978593920171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/rush-to-get-personal-debt-advice-in.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com&quot;&gt;Rush to get Personal Debt advice in 2008 Started!&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-467575305581064076</id><published>2008-01-03T18:35:00.008Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.663Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tv advert'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='about us'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lewis alexander'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt consolidation'/><title type='text'>DRTV advert by Lewis Alexander Debt Help</title><content type='html'>Lewis Alexander relaunches their 2005 &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/tv-advert"&gt;TV advert&lt;/a&gt; in response to high numbers of people requiring personal help and &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice"&gt;debt advice&lt;/a&gt; in the Uk to &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;clear debts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See the &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/tv-advert"&gt;Lewis Alexander DRTV Advert&lt;/a&gt; now,&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-467575305581064076?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/467575305581064076'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/467575305581064076'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/drtv-advert-by-lewis-alexander-debt.html' title='&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lewisalexander.com/about-us/tv-advert&quot;&gt;DRTV advert by Lewis Alexander Debt Help&lt;/a&gt;'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-525238003533565009</id><published>2008-01-03T18:35:00.007Z</published><updated>2009-01-09T02:40:55.665Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='personal'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stress'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='geopathic'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><title type='text'>Geopathic Stress and Personal Debts</title><content type='html'>Geopathic Stress,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Human illness can be caused from location of residence!  geopathic zones are noticed from sleeplessness and irritability sometimes, &lt;a href="http://www.personal-debt.co.uk/"&gt;personal debt&lt;/a&gt; also affects &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/"&gt;health&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;read on at &lt;a href="http://www.lewisalexander.com/debt-advice/debt-problems/stress-and-debt"&gt;Lewis Alexander Debt Help&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John Quigley of &lt;a href="http://www.cosmictraveller.com/"&gt;Cosmic Traveller&lt;/a&gt;, NLP expert, can explain a lot more about Geopathic Stress and Neuro Linguistic Programming&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2848822618156435359-525238003533565009?l=lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/525238003533565009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2848822618156435359/posts/default/525238003533565009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lewis-alexander-debt-help.blogspot.com/2008/01/geopathic-stress-and-personal-debts.html' title='Geopathic Stress and Personal Debts'/><author><name>Debt Advisors to the Stars</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='34' height='7' src='http://bp2.blogger.com/_ib99-eKfou8/R35yyFzeNRI/AAAAAAAAABg/POaIESV5I2M/S220/LAlogo.jpg.png'/></author></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2848822618156435359.post-337681667070197724</id><published>2008-01-03T12:36:00.002Z</published><updated>2010-11-07T02:22:32.342Z</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='uk'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='insolvency'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debts'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='advice'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='iva'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt help'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='debt management'/><title type='text'>Insolvency Advice Uk</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.insolvencyadviceuk.co.uk/"&gt;http://www.insolvencyadviceuk.co.uk/&lt;/a&gt; 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