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Financial aid officers don't always act in the student's best interests. Here's how to protect yourself. For students who plan to borrow for college, choosing a lender has become a lot more complicated. In March a scandal erupted when New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo launched an investigation into allegations that student loan companies provided kickbacks to university financial aid officers and staffers in order to win more business. One key goal was to gain a spot on s

Home prices are expected to finish down for the year, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) said Tuesday, which would mark the first drop since the group started tracking values in 1968. NAR projects a 1 percent decline in the median price of an existing single-family home, to $219,800. The group, in a forecast made a month ago, had previously been expecting a 0.7 percent decline. Prior to that, it had expected a gain of 1.2 percent. The number of home sales is also expected to dip