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GetOutOfDebt.org

U.S. consumer-advocacy (personal-finance, pro-consumer)

Owned byOwned and operated by Flight Systems LLC. Founder Steve Rhode runs it.
FundingThe site says it takes no advertising and has no affiliate relationships, and that it charges nothing for its content. It says the only income is an occasional labeled referral link to a consumer service Rhode personally uses. One search result suggested that ads help fund the site, which conflicts with the no-ads claim. Those statements come from the site itself and were not independently verified.
On the administrationmostly neutral

Background

Steve Rhode has worked in consumer debt since 1994. After a 1990 personal bankruptcy, he founded Debt Counselors of America, a nonprofit credit counseling group. That group later became Myvesta, which he ran until 2006. He launched GetOutOfDebt.org in 2008 as a free resource, saying it would carry no ads from debt-relief companies and no affiliate ties that could bias its advice. The site publishes articles, an "Ask Steve" AI debt advisor and a daily money-news brief. It has also published original research citing Myvesta data that found 49.3% of people in debt crisis showed clinical depression symptoms, against 9.5% of the general population. It presents an "editorial independence" policy stating that it sells nothing and takes no ad money. A page titled "Steve Rhode: Scam or Legit?" shows it addresses skeptical readers directly. Its perspective is consumer-protection oriented and skeptical of for-profit debt settlement, but it is a single-person-led site rather than a newsroom. My search found no specific record of coverage of the second Trump administration, so the administration stance is a limited assessment.

Sources

  1. Editorial Independence — I Sell Nothing & Take No Ad Money
  2. About Steve Rhode
  3. The Honest Place to Get Out of Debt
  4. Terms
  5. About Debt Counselors of America & Myvesta
  6. Debt and Depression: Original Research
  7. GetOutOfDebt.org Launches Ask Steve, a Free Anonymous AI Debt Advisor Available Around the Clock

Profile compiled 2026-10-20; refreshed when ownership, funding, or the administration changes.

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