Car was totaled, bank that gave auto loan charged off the loan account because the collateral is gone despite us continuing with full and on time payments. What are our options? [more inside]
posted by Nickel on Oct 11, 2009 - 4 answers

Looking for statistics and/or reports about services given by NGOs, private companies and governments to parents, as opposed to services directed to childrens, in european countries. [more inside]
posted by elpapacito on Aug 13, 2009 - 2 answers

Do I need to submit form MV-104 (Report of Motor Vehicle Accident) to the New York State (where I live) DMV if the accident occurred in Toronto, Ontario? [more inside]
posted by sary on Aug 2, 2009 - 1 answer

LearningToBeAnAdultFilter: What is the most accurate, free and legitimate way to get my credit score? I know I'm supposed to be able to get it free once a year, and that there are 3 different reporting agencies.... but.... what do I do? I feel like everyone but me already knows this.
posted by dahliachewswell on Jul 24, 2009 - 11 answers

How uncommon was the bobcat(?) sighting I had yesterday in Marin, California? Pictures here. I.e., are there offically people who track these things and would like to know about it? I was near Muir beach and luckily had a decent camera on me... [more inside]
posted by garethspor on Jul 6, 2009 - 9 answers

Hertz fender bender, do I need to file police report, and am I covered? [more inside]
posted by spacefire on Jul 4, 2009 - 5 answers

Image licensing and advertising on the Colbert Report [more inside]
posted by Submiqent on May 14, 2009 - 7 answers

I'm an adult education teacher computerizing our attendance recording and reporting using MS Access. The reports need to be laid out in a particular way, and I'm not sure how to make that happen. Can you help me? [more inside]
posted by miraimatt on May 10, 2009 - 1 answer

What's your preferred method for getting your FICO score? [more inside]
posted by xotis on Apr 19, 2009 - 13 answers

I'm looking for a standard solution to provide minimal ad-hoc reporting functionality. I am an inexperienced sysadmin who spends a large portion of his day writing similar reports for my users. I am looking for a solution that will allow me to publish reports that can be modified by non technical users. My primary goal is to find the most "industry standard" solution, so that I know that it will have plenty of community support. More than just finding a good solution, I'd really like to find a good solution with a recognized name behind it. Flexibility and ease of use are my secondary interests.
posted by Gusy on Mar 2, 2009 - 6 answers

After ordering my credit report, I found that there were two bills sent to collections in 2006. Upon further investigation, I discovered that these were for unpaid cable bills and cable equipment that was never returned by my old roommates after I moved out--what do I do? [more inside]
posted by mingodingo on Dec 1, 2008 - 7 answers

Where do I get a legitimate credit report and how do I go about cleaning it out? [more inside]
posted by goalyeehah on Nov 15, 2008 - 12 answers

There has to be a program that does this - user configurable Service Level monitoring of other systems, with 'actionable' events [more inside]
posted by dyerfr on Aug 26, 2008 - 7 answers

SAS guru question: Is there an easy way to turn voluminous txt multi-page SAS reports generated with PROC REPORT back into a series "one observation per row" SAS tables? I know I can do it with a medium size Perl or Python script but I'm assuming someone must have dealt with this problem before, likely in SAS itself. [more inside]
posted by benzenedream on Aug 14, 2008 - 3 answers

I just had a HORRIBLE HORRIBLE experience with a doctor. This is the reason most people do NOT go to doctors. It kinda makes me not want to go to a doctor. Let me give you the whole story so you can assess the situation, get really mad, and provide me with constructive advice. If you don't feel like reading it all, scroll to the bottom and tell me what I should do if I am unsatisfied with the quality of care from a doctor. [more inside]
posted by hal_c_on on Apr 15, 2008 - 41 answers

Looking for clear, effective references of standard deviation in a marketing research project. [more inside]
posted by survivorman on Mar 19, 2008 - 6 answers

Is a company required to make a good faith effort to collect on a debt before reporting it as charged off? Do I have any recourse for my credit report? [more inside]
posted by 0xFCAF on Jan 7, 2008 - 4 answers

The financial problems of someone who shared my name and former address are showing up on my credit report! How do I even begin to go about disputing this, should the credit agency's investigation not go in my favor? [more inside]
posted by almostmanda on Dec 2, 2007 - 7 answers

Quickbooks Report Desperation. All the data I want is in QB, but I can only seem to get it in separate reports. The ideal report would have the following fields: employee id, date, time, item. [more inside]
posted by pants on Nov 1, 2007 - 3 answers

Help me protect my credit report from corporate idiocy. [more inside]
posted by slow graffiti on Oct 25, 2007 - 22 answers

I have recently discovered that my identity was stolen. Fifteen years ago. I know the person who did it, or I did ... fifteen years ago. [more inside]
posted by WolfDaddy on Oct 15, 2007 - 13 answers

Best 9-11 'Conspiracy Theory' book for the skeptic? [more inside]
posted by jjsonp on Aug 14, 2007 - 21 answers

I need help with counting formulas in Excel! [more inside]
posted by Lilou on Aug 12, 2007 - 13 answers

How do we organize status reports from our sales reps? I'd like to find a happy compromise between not making it too onerous to the reporter and not making it too onerous for the people reading the reports. More inside... [more inside]
posted by edjusted on Jul 6, 2007 - 7 answers

How can I make Microsoft Access 2002 crank out organized web pages that conform to my design ideas? [more inside]
posted by Servo5678 on May 14, 2007 - 2 answers

What should I do about overhearing what I think was the pitch for a ponzi scheme? [more inside]
posted by frieze on Jan 26, 2007 - 26 answers

What's the best way to make maps like this and this for use in a report. The images generated by Google, etc are all a bit rubbish looking. Bonus points for free/cheapware or webapps.
posted by TrashyRambo on Jan 12, 2007 - 5 answers

If someone wants money from a vehicle accident three and a half months after it happened, can they still get insurance to take care of it? [more inside]
posted by Count on Dec 28, 2006 - 19 answers

Can offshore companies such as neteller, firepay, various online gambling sites and other such companies that operate outside of the US, but have us based customers, tarnish or submitt negative information to US credit reporting agencies (trans union, Equixfax, etc) ?
posted by crewshell on Dec 6, 2006 - 2 answers

We're meant to do all of our University assignments with Harvard Referencing. Easy enough. However I've grown used to using Word's system of managing references and it does all the updating itself for any changes I make - has anyone got any ideas how to get Word 2007 (or 2003 / XP) to do the referencing? My Google-fu has failed me so far.
posted by philsi on Nov 8, 2006 - 2 answers

What is the best enterprise quality software & hardware inventory solution? [more inside]
posted by criticman on Oct 2, 2006 - 6 answers

Microsoft Access 2002 (Windows XP): Reports won't run due to (presumably) a date formatting issue; can't edit reports (or forms, or modules) to fix the (presumed) issue. [more inside]
posted by Gator on Jul 25, 2006 - 12 answers

Advice on filing an accident report where I'm not at fault, but was in a situation that commonly defines me as being at fault? (Chicago, IL if that matters, oh and the vehicle who hit me left the scene) [more inside]
posted by twiggy on Jul 13, 2006 - 12 answers

Conspiracy filter: Has anyone ever experienced this strange, suspicious phenomenon on TV before? [more inside]
posted by wsg on Jul 6, 2006 - 19 answers

Problems with my Neighbour Filter: Im having trouble with my 90 year old neighbour. I live in a ground floor flat and she lives above us. I play music in the daytime as I work from home at a normal level. She is always reporting me to the council saying that I am a nuisance neighbour, HELP! [more inside]
posted by spinko on Jul 3, 2006 - 37 answers

Helping a tenant improve his credit score? [more inside]
posted by hokie409 on May 30, 2006 - 1 answer

How sinister is a pre-employment "investigative consumer report" that includes interviews with acquaintances? What do those interviews involve exactly? [more inside]
posted by anonymous on May 27, 2006 - 14 answers

Recommendations for Chart/Graph-creation software for ASP.NET? [more inside]
posted by mkultra on Apr 25, 2006 - 2 answers

Any Excel or MS based report card generating or tracking tips for a variety of different grading criteria? [more inside]
posted by brent on Apr 5, 2006 - 1 answer

Credit Repair: is the best/fastest way to deal with legitimate unpaid collections on one's credit history to simply pay them off, or to go through some other process? Tips and tricks of the trade? [more inside]
posted by weston on Mar 9, 2006 - 13 answers

Did the President's Advisory Panel on Tax Reform radically change their plans at the last minute? I read through the first few chapters of their report (released November 1), and then googled to try to find some independent analysis. Several of the top links are angry articles from around October 14, talking about how the panel is going to recommend nothing more than a couple of minor tweaks to programs to pay for repealing the AMT, and won't "seek a wholesale reform of our tax code." But the report that came out on November 1 seems to recommend drastic changes, essentially throwing out most of the existing tax code and rewriting it from scratch. (Not that that's a bad thing.) What happened between October 14 and November 1?
posted by designbot on Nov 4, 2005 - 6 answers

The significance of a department store reporting that one has missed a monthly payment on a purchase to the credit agencies? [more inside]
posted by ParisParamus on May 2, 2005 - 9 answers

I'm in college in the U.S., and have a few state student loans. They were under a forebearance that I once requested, which ended four months ago. I didn't realize this, and ignored the mail that was sent about it because I thought it was the usual mail they send me about how I have a loan and ads for consolidation. I just recently got this fixed and the forebearance backdated so it will have another year from when it ended. But I now have two 60-day late marks on my otherwise good credit report. Anything I can do to get rid of them?
posted by anonymous on Jan 8, 2005 - 5 answers

I want a utility (freeware?) which will scan an NCSA extended logfile and create a simple report on which referrers generated how many sales transactions.

Any recommendations?
posted by ZenMasterThis on Dec 20, 2004 - 3 answers

CreditFilter: Two years ago, not really understanding the importance of good credit behavior, I let a department store card slide for 180 days, twice (I KNOW!). This impacted my credit history greatly. I had previously had 4 years of good payment on two credit cards. Over the past year, to help recover and instill good habits, I pay my credit cards in full every month (read: no personal debt) and added a paid off car loan to my reports (15K). My CC limits have slowly increased but my score has remained somewhat the same (10 pt increase).

What can I do to get out of this rut? Some collegues I know have a sizable CC debt (around 15-20K) with less income than me but have great scores and could buy a house tommorrow with no problems. What am I missing and no, credit-fixing agencies are NOT an option.
posted by anonymous on Dec 12, 2004 - 11 answers

Among the usual deluge of spam to my hotmail account, received a rather graphic solicitation for what appears to be actual kiddie pr0n. I'd like to report this but I'm not sure to whom and how, and I'm reluctant to google on the topic or forward indiscriminately. FBI? (slightly uncomfortable using their online submission form) or someone more local?
posted by jalexei on Mar 21, 2004 - 24 answers