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cheapest: Problems Refinancing from Conventional Loan to a Government Loan - 12/09/08 11:47 AM
For fun an giggles, let's say you bought a property in Feb. of 2008.  You got a Heck of a Deal - and you purchased the home for $237,000.  The appraisal in February was for $245,000 (and the appraiser thinks it's worth more now).  The loan in February was a conventional 100% Community Reinvestment loan (those are no longer available).  Your credit is good, you qualify, and since your rate is currently 6.875% - you'd like to refinance.
BAD NEWS!  If you are in North Carolina, and you want to refinance you must wait until February of 2009, because there are no … (1 comments)

cheapest: How to Get Your 4.5% Mortgage! - 12/03/08 04:08 PM
I can not tell you how many people have told me TODAY that they heard rates are going to 4.5%!!!
From your mouth to God's Ears!
As I write this, rates are close to 5.0%... but it's still quite a stretch to get to 4 ANYTHING... so should you just wait?
The reality is that the mortgage business has gotten pretty L-E-A-N on the "back" side... what I'm saying is that the layoffs (it's estimated that more than 200,000 jobs have been lost in the mortgage business) affected closers and UNDERWRITERS... underwriting times are already over 2 weeks in some places.
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