{"id":245,"date":"2006-10-30T16:53:01","date_gmt":"2006-10-30T20:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/30\/give-me-back-my-credit\/"},"modified":"2006-12-27T19:59:46","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T23:59:46","slug":"give-me-back-my-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2006\/10\/30\/give-me-back-my-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Give Me Back My Credit<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.givemebackmycredit.com\/index2.htm\">Give Me Back My Credit<\/a><\/em> Denise Richardson relates how her credit was ruined by a series of arithmetic errors by her bank (and the bank&#8217;s refusal to take responsibility). She also explains a variety of laws that affect consumers.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Bland, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/pubcit.typepad.com\/clpblog\/\">Consumer Law &amp; Policy blog<\/a>, gave this book <a href=\"http:\/\/pubcit.typepad.com\/clpblog\/2006\/10\/valuable_new_co.html\">a very enthusiastic review<\/a>, calling her story &#8220;powerful&#8221; and her legal explanations &#8220;straightforward and very readable.&#8221; Check out Ms. Richardson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.givemebackmycredit.com\/index2.htm\">website<\/a> for resources and links as well as information about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Bland also recommends Evan Hendrick\u2019s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.creditscoresandcreditreports.com\/\"><font color=\"#006699\">Credit Scores and Credit Reports<\/font><\/a><\/em>, and Remar Sutton\u2019s guide to car buying, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dont-Get-Taken-Every-Time\/dp\/0141001496\"><font color=\"#006699\">Don\u2019t Get Taken Every Time<\/font><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">[<em>Editor&#8217;s Note<\/em>: we want to <em>give credit<\/em> to Denise Howell for <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">putting so many treats this week for <em>shlep<\/em> in her <a href=\"http:\/\/bgbg.blogspot.com\/\"><em>Bag &amp; Baggage<\/em><\/a> <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\">Howell-o-ween II edition of <\/font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Arial\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bgbg.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/blawg-review-81.html\"><em>Blawg Review<\/em><\/a> #81.] <\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Give Me Back My Credit Denise Richardson relates how her credit was ruined by a series of arithmetic errors by her bank (and the bank&#8217;s refusal to take responsibility). She also explains a variety of laws that affect consumers. Paul Bland, at the Consumer Law &amp; Policy blog, gave this book a very enthusiastic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}