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Photo courtesy of Will Pate We can Teach You… Every day in my inbox, there is someone offering to certify me to make...
There has been a lot of talk over the last year or so about various mortgage acceleration programs, in fact, I have talked about...
Social Financing Before you run out and begin thinking that social financing is going to help you pay your mortgage, understand that loans are...
Zillow debuts Zillow made it’s entry into the Zortgage sphere this week with a new tool to provide a more transparent mortgage loan search...
Let’s Make It Happen! I guess I asked for it, but now I am stumped. Back in December I wrote about multi-cultural blogging and...
Lending Tree is fond of advertising “when bank competes, you win.” Zillow took that model for its Mortgage Marketplace, which debuted yesterday, and took...
I don’t know if others in the mortgage industry face this situation or not but lately I’ve been losing deals. I’m not talking about...
I know mortgage folks these days are the target of jokes, rebuttals, recrimination. In fact, Congress practically wants to criminalize how we do loans....
“You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by men with...
The Zillow mortgage is about to launch and the first phase is already underway. Several industry bloggers have covered the main features of the...
A couple of weeks ago, Shailesh (fellow genius) wrote about how equity management is overrated. Personally, I think it is underrated as it is...
Yesterday was Valentine’s Day, the day of love and bonds saw anything but. As Cupid flew around, shooting arrows, bringing together loved ones,...
A few years ago, in the middle of the housing boom, I came across the equity management philosophy of wealth creation. The basic premise...
As part of the $150 billion economic stimulus package Congress and the Bush Administration have agreed to raise the conforming loan limit. Congress has...
or Make it Worse? When you break your arm, do you go to your family doctor, or do you go see someone at the...
KISS. If I were running for political office and someone asked me how I would govern, I would say: KISS. Yes, that is right,...
I just finished reading Benn’s post on Does This Yun Make You Look Fat? and started a comment that grew and grew. In Benn’s...
photo credit: Reema According to the Wall Street Journal, the FBI has just opened inquiries into 14 unnamed lending firms. They are being investigated...
By now you have heard that the Fed hit the panic button and cut rates a drastic 75bp. It is quite obvious that the...
Although I’m not necessarily on the Romney train and I have made no final decisions on who “my candidate” for president is, most candidates spent...
I’d have written something sooner on this, but at 8:30 am, I was already on the phone with buyers. My response has been, we’re...
Everyone still seems to think that changing your ARM (adjustable rate mortgage) to a fixed rate mortgage is in your best interests. But is...
Good thing I can laugh at myself. You know, there are times when I want to bury my head in the sand. This wasn’t...
If “subprime” was the word of the year for 2007 then I think “declining markets” has a fair shot for 2008. Granted it’s a...
It never ceases to amaze me how people listen to everyone but who they should be to determine which mortgage is best for them. ...