You would have had to have been hiding behind a rock for the last six months if you hadn’t heard of the financial crisis which has hit some of the biggest institutions in the world. Everything looks pretty shaky right now unless you are one of the cute investors who know how to make money in a falling market. But that’s another story!

For the average Joe on the street it means feeling the pinch squeezing ever harder. We are seeing record numbers of repossessions in the UK market (foreclosures if you’re in the US) as people simply drop over the edge of the credit canyon!

… and it’s a deep canyon. Predictions are that more and more people will succumb to this credit crunch over the next 12 to 18 months. In times like these it’s not surprising to see schemes such as sell & rent which are designed to help you stop repossession of your home.

The idea is, you sell your home to pay off your mortgage and then you rent it back from the institution who bought it from you. The big advantage is you don’t have to move out of your house and deal with all the stress which that entails.

No doubt you would have reached a fairly desperate time in your life to have had to have gone down his route but at least it is a way of reducing some of the pain you’re feeling.

Another thing which happens in tough times like those we are seeing is that people look for more ways to make money on the Internet. You can actually find real online data entry jobs which might help you to ride the stormy waters.