URBAN REHABILITATION NOW BELOW 5% - 01/20/08 07:13 PM
Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (www.chfa.org) and McCue Mortgage Company offers a mortgage program called Urban Rehabilitation. The UR programs makes a grant of up to $20,000.00 for renovations/improvements to a one family home and up to $25,000.00 for 2-4 family homes. I have written about this program in previous posts so I will (1 comments)
CHFA HELPS OUT VETERANS - PART TWO - 01/19/08 09:50 PM
In early December I wrote about changes to the CHFA (Connecticut Housing Finance Authority - www.chfa.org ) Military Homeownership Program. At that time, the CHFA rate was 5.875% with 1 point and the Military Program was offered at 5.75% with 1 point. As of this past Thursday, CHFA lowered their rate to 5.125% with (2 comments)
OFF AND RUNNING - 01/19/08 09:26 PM
So far so good. According to the media the real estate world is in trouble. This may be so in some cases but not for the first time home buyers. From Wednesday January 2nd up to today, the phones are ringing at McCue Mortgage, potential clients are getting prequalified and pre-approved. Some (2 comments)
OPEN HOUSE VISITS - 01/05/08 06:18 PM
Sunday is a popular day for Open Houses in southeastern Connecticut. I intend to visit 8 Open Houses in Norwich, Montville, Stonington and Niantic/East Lyme. Some are being hosted by experienced long time Realtors, others by newcomers. I hope to meet them all and leave my Open House flyers designed by (5 comments)
OFF TO A GOOD START - 01/05/08 02:18 PM
January 2008 seems to be off to a good start. Although we only worked W-TH-F, we had a large number of phone calls, e-mails and faxes come in to the office. A number of new clients called inquiring about what needed to be done to start the home buying process. A number (4 comments)
THE SKUNK SAGA - PART 4 - 01/05/08 02:06 PM
The third skunk was trapped this morning and has now joined the other two wherever they are now. I am not going to ask. The pipes are no longer frozen, the building does not smell and the hole is filled in. Hopefully next week is back to writing mortgages and not fighting (3 comments)
THE SKUNK SAGA CONTINUES - PART 3 - 01/03/08 06:43 PM
It's not over yet. The skunk trapper is coming back tomorrow to catch our latest skunk friend/enemy. Meanwhile the area that he has dug out for himself is right next to the drain pipe and trap for the sewer drain pipe form our building. Guess what? When the temperature drops to 10 degrees (1 comments)
2007 - A REAL STINKER (SKUNK - NOT MORTGAGES) (cont.) - 01/02/08 04:36 PM
Heeeeee's back. If you read my previous post about the never ending battle with the skunks, here's my update. I came into work this morning at McCue Mortgage Company and the entire building had the aroma of skunk in it. Sure enough, I went outside to check on the concrete, wire and stake barrier and (4 comments)