Buy now, pay later plans allow consumers to make purchases online or in stores and pay them off in a series of installments.

Something called a lease-purchase, or rent-to-own, agreement. "This was our way to own a home finally," Hines-Denson said. "It was like we found a loophole." It took just a weekend of house ...

A residential lease is a legally binding contract, which creates consequences if the agreement is broken before ... Each ...