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American Car Buying Service: For a fee of $29 American Car Buying Service locates the car of your choice. It also offers lease and fleet buying services. http://www.acscorp.com/

American Consumer Credit Counseling: A non-profit organization consumer organization that serves clients throughout the United States by providing information and counseling for those with credit problems. The site has good information on legal issues, bankruptcy, savings, improving budgeting, and other general subjects. http://www.consumercredit.com/

Autobytel: This site offers a used-car classified section and a "cetrified" used-car program for research and buying information. http://www.autobytel.com

Autotrader.com: This site provides an extensive used-car database but also new-car referrals through CarsDirect.com. You can search by brand, model, year, price range and location. In addition to that, for a fee you can run a vehicle history report. http://www.autotrader.com

CarsDirect.com: This is a complete online buying guide. Research section offers safety information, review links and buying guides. The site offers rebates, financing, insurance quotes and live online help. http://www.carsdirect.com/home

CNN Budget Planner: This site has a useful online budgeting feature. http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/instantbudget/instantbudget_101.jsp

Edmund's Automobile Buyer's Guides: This organization provides information on new and used vehicle prices and provides comprehensive descriptions of vehicles offered for sale. You can obtain used vehicle prices and prices for new vehicles at the retail and dealer invoice level. http://www.edmunds.com/

Fair Isaac & Co.: The site of the world's largest credit and mortgage scoring firm. You can learn about what credit scoring is all about and how it is used. http://www.fairisaac.com/fairisaac. A discussion of what credit scoring is all about is found at the consumer information feature.

LeadFusion: This excellent Web-based business offering provides consumers access to about one hundred common financial calculator algorithms for basic and some more complicated problems organized by home, auto, credit card, savings, stocks, budget and bonds. Future value, present value, amortization yields and many more algorithms are used in very useful applications. http://www.leadfusion.com/

Federal Trade Commission: This site presents an interesting article titled "Credit and Your Consumer Rights". http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/credit/crdright.htm

Homebuyer Education: This site by the government mortgage agency provides information on homeownership and mortgages. http://www.freddiemac.com/corporate/buyown/english/preparing/right_for_you/index.html

IVillage.com: The site provides helpful hits on various aspects of consumer finance topics. Examples include: how to spend less, how to payoff debt quickly, how to reduce credit card debt among others. The site also has an interactive quiz feature related to byign vs. renting issues. http://quiz.ivillage.com/home/tests/rentbuyhouse.htm

Kelly's Blue Book: This site provides new and used car values based on this firm's years of providing market valuations. http://www.kbb.com/

National Foundation of Credit Counseling: This organization of credit counselors also has a useful consumer site. http://www.nfcc.org/. The organization's consumer site provide information on credit counseling and debt management. http://www.debtadvice.org/