Structured Settlements 4Real®Blog 2026
Structured settlements expert John Darer reviews the latest structured settlements and settlement planning information and news, and provides expert opinion and highly regarded commentary. that is spicy, Informative, irreverent and effective for over 20 years.
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Category: Stone Street Capital Commentary
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Does Stone Street’s Ben Franklin represent what you get when you sell your structured settlement? The “large lump sum” is not as big as it first seems. In entering into a deal with a structured settlement buyer, “look below the surface” because the dollar could turn out to be a wooden nickel.
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Is Trish Laborde of Stone Street Capital angling to star with me in a modern day version of Dan Ackroyd and Jane Curtin’s popular Point-Counterpoint segment on Saturday Night Live at the next NASP or NSSTA Annual meeting? I’m talking Weekend Update, as in where Ackroyd starts off his counterpoint with and ascerbic “Jane, you…
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People who rush to sell their structured settlements could learn from Jim Henson’s timeless frugality. Be more like Kermit and less like Miss Piggy. Preserve your safe and stable income and only consider selling your structured settlement AFTER you have explored and exhausted all other options.
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So you get some tender vittles in your wallet, but it’s not for going out and joining everyone who is “twerking for the weekend” Lovergirl. Selling your structured settlement is expensive money. It is something that should involve sober thought.
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by Structured Settlement Watchdog Factoring Companies are not Good Sources for Information About Structured Settlements Says Will, one of Stone Street Capital's bloggers "One question we hear rather regularly is what is the difference between a “structured settlement” and an annuity. A “structured settlement” is defined as a tax advantaged financial settlement awarded to an…
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Stone Street Capital, a settlement purchasing company out of Bethesda Maryland, gets all chirpy on Twitter about this image of a man getting bitten in half by a crocodile from them waist down
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Ironically, when you sell structured settlement payments for the best you’re gonna get…”pennies on the dollar”, you’re closer to the past tense of the ” F” word and Butthead Nirvana, than a score of a big cash windfall that some structured settlement factoring companies promise,
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The companies in the sponsored search listings that embroider most search engine results on the Internet are NOT RELEVANT to tort victims who are at or approaching the end of settlement negotiations. Virtually all such listings companies are factoring companies who are seeking to get you to part with your payments in exchange for a…