Could simply eliminating asking prices on homes and allowing buyers dictate pricing make a difference in the real estate industry? Let us take a look at...
Cold calling was the marketing tactic of choice for decades, but they have run their course. Some will find marginal success with the method, but overall,...
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau changes It’s Friday May 20, 2011- 1 day before the earth is blown up. Did you pay your Comcast bill? The Consumer...
Can you imagine someone saying to you when you go for a mortgage, “Sorry, I have to screw you?” Thanks to the Federal Reserve and their...
Now that our friends at the Federal Reserve have changed the mortgage pay system for borrowers and broker, there is more “good’ news from Washington. If...
Effecive April, 1, 2011, unless stopped by a filed lawsuit, the Federal Reserve will implement a new way to pay people that originate mortgages who work...
HUD and the White House came out today with ideas on what to do about the future of mortgages in America. They give a few different...
Did you know that everytime you pull a credit report for a mortgage, that individual could receive many unsolicited calls from other lenders that very evening?...
Just imagine everything looking like it was going smooth. You sold your listing of 9 months, worked out the short sale on the first with Bank...
If you are old enough, you will remember a time of no cell phone or oh my, no Twitter! In 1996, Congress passed the Telecommunications Act...
$625,000, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, parking, deck, fireplace, hardwood floors. What do see that is important here? The price or the features? If you are the...
The Fed has a rule that they are making active on April 1 where each mortgage brokerage and banker (excluding banks) set a fixed percentage that...
I just lost a mortgage loan and the way I lost it was interesting. First, the clients signed an agreement to buy an empty, somewhat run...
No, I am not kidding. I was just informed that a lender limited the compensation on a regular non-short sale transaction to a maximum of 8%...
Thank you Bank of America. You have just set in motion the real estate recovery. With was is being dubbed ForeclosureGate, our friends at B of...
This country, although in a paper, no job recovery, needs some help to put us back to where people can smile. Wall Street is in love...
Because of the highly effective anti-publicity time of the year on top of it being “take out the trash day,” I present a game changing, spin-on-dime beginning...
Years ago, the sounds of “out of the closet and into the streets” ranged loudly in the Gay community. Now it should be “into the closets...
In the last two days I have had calls from several people not realizing it’s 2010. Is there a real estate/mortgage time machine out there that...
Remember the old Hall and Oates song, “I Can’t Go for That? No Can Do.” That’s what 38% of the 61% of all American that could...
Franks calls for ban House Financial Services Committee Chairman Congressman Barney Frank of Massachusetts indicated Wednesday, during the conference committee meeting on Financial Reform, yield spread premiums (YSP),...
I notice the other day (and had it confirmed by a realtor.com salesperson) that NAR and REALTOR.com are happily selling advertising to any agent in any...
Sorry to break it to ya… Sorry to tell you this, sports fans and those that make a living selling real estate, the end is not...
The Zoo stop Getting up at 5AM when you are used to getting up at 8:30AM is a drag. Even the cat looked at me as...
While Senators Dodd and Shelby are discussing the Financial Reform bill on both TV and behind closed doors, TBTF -Too Big To Fail is of primary...
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