mortgages: Why Recommending A DIRECT LENDER Could Make You Choke on Your Coffee - 08/21/09 06:17 PM
This is an excellent point of view regarding the differences in the types of mortgage shops you have available to them. I work for a mortgage banker that also brokers loans. You will get the BEST rates by working with someone who can shop for you!
Via Janet Guilbault California … (2 comments)
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mortgages: USDA Home Loan Underwriting Updates - 07/15/09 09:54 AM
USDA is quickly becoming one of the Country's most popular mortgage loan programs, and with that, the USDA Rural Development Offices are getting backlogged!
USDA Home Loans are 100% (plus) mortgages - for more information about the program click here.
Because of this increase in volume, there have been several recent AN … (3 comments)
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mortgages: It's EASIER To Qualify For a USDA Mortgage Today! 5/1/09 - 05/01/09 09:32 AM
USDA Home Loans have "special" qualifying guidelines that prohibit folks from purchasing if you make "too much" money!
In the past, that means that if you make more than the median income for your area - you might not qualify... but some recent "tweaks" to the system will allow more folks … (9 comments)
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mortgages: New Opportunity for Investors? - 03/16/09 02:16 PM
The Obama administration is due to release details for the "Troubled Assets" on the Bank's books later this week. Those would be the "Mortgage Loans" that went on the bank books in 2006 before all of this mess happened.
It appears to me that the plan fall along the lines of … (9 comments)
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mortgages: Why Credit Scores are Getting Tighter in NC - 02/23/09 10:33 AM
Since the beginning of the year, subtle but significant changes made their way into the underwriting guidelines in NC, and credit score requirements have been changing! As we are all learning, each market seems to be somewhat "dis jointed" when it comes to home values, and jobs - therefore we've seen … (2 comments)
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mortgages: If Your Score is Less than 620 - Interest Rates Are Going UP! - 01/09/09 01:44 PM
Just received an update from a MAJOR investor that credit scores less than 620 are going to be priced SIGNIFICANTLY higher beginning Monday, January 12, 2009.
This is significant for folks who are purchasing, and using USDA or FHA/VA financing tools. The "hits" for scores between 600 and 620 today are … (12 comments)
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mortgages: NAR's "Baghdad Bob" Confesses - 12/29/08 09:22 PM
This is just too good to be missed!
Via Matt Heaton (Timu Corp - CEO, ActiveRain - Co-founder):
You remember "Baghdad Bob" from the Iraq War, right? Iraq's information minister who repeatedly claimed no American troops in Baghdad as US tanks patrolled only hundreds of yards from his studio. … (7 comments)
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mortgages: My Customer Was Interviewed by the WSJ! - 12/16/08 08:11 AM
There's an article regarding the USDA program in today's Wall Street Journal. It's a POSITIVE program, with low default rates, no money down, and no mortgage insurance! Rates (as I write this) are below 5.5%...
and the USDA Mortgage Program is so popular, it's about to run out of money...
I've … (10 comments)
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mortgages: 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% … (1 comments)
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mortgages: 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?
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mortgages: The Different Kinds of Mortgage Insurance - 12/01/08 04:03 PM
Most folks want to avoid PMI... but they don't realize that they are happily paying a "kind" of mortgage insurance no matter what kind of loan they are getting!
Mortgage Insurance is not the insurance that covers you if you die, or are disabled and can not pay the mortgage... it's … (4 comments)
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mortgages: Rates Started Moving South... Will it last? - 11/25/08 07:52 AM
Those of us in the mortgage business have been watching mortgage interest rates with one eye on our list of past customers, hoping rates will finally mirror the lowering bond market.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (more commonly known as the Wall Street Bailout Plan) was passed under the presumption … (1 comments)
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mortgages: Change in Business Plans - Take out Fear of Financing (ASAP!) - 11/12/08 09:11 AM
This is one of those NO BRAINER wake up calls we all need. I just finished Accountability Coaching - and they reminded me that I need 12 to 20 Exposures every day... not to my real estate partners, but to the PUBLIC. Writing notes, sending personal emails - reminding folks … (10 comments)
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mortgages: USDA Home Loans in Holly Springs, NC - 11/11/08 04:29 PM
Here's a map from USDA showing where you can have a 100% loan, and where you can't use USDA financing. The shaded area in the top right portion of the map does NOT qualify... the rest of it definately does!
This is great news for folks who are looking for homes … (2 comments)
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mortgages: FHA Loan Limits Change in the Triangle 1/1/09 - 11/10/08 12:44 PM
EDIT! These loan limits CHANGED AGAIN on 2/24/2009. FHA limits as of THAT date in Wake County are now back to $295,000
According to the calculations done by HUD, and released in their recent Mortgagee Letter, the maximum FHA loan limits in Wake County will be $271,050 effective January 1, 2009.
If you are … (11 comments)
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mortgages: Financing Options For Purchasing Foreclosure Property - 11/06/08 11:32 AM
THIS IS AN UPDATED POST... See $100 Downpayment Change!!!
There are tons of people who know that we are at or near the bottom of the real estate market, and they are ready to purchase a home. Many of the folks we are talking to are looking at foreclosed property, … (10 comments)
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mortgages: Veteran's Benefits Changed with New Law October 10, 2008 - 10/28/08 11:15 AM
The VA made a significant change on October 10, 2008 in an effort to help Veteran's who might be caught up in a subprime mortgage. The Veteran's Administration never made any subprime loans, and even the adjustable rate mortgages offered through the VA are considered to be some of the safest, … (3 comments)
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mortgages: FHA Mortgage Program is AWFUL! - 10/20/08 03:11 PM
Use to be, I could get all the business I wanted just concentrating on my referral partners in Cary. With business such as it is, I now find myself heading further out to hook up with borrowers and referral partners. I've been listening to CNBC as the market works it's way … (17 comments)
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mortgages: A Year Later - How ActiveRain Changed My Life - 10/07/08 07:54 AM
Last weekend marked my one year anniversary on Activerain. I can honestly say...it's changed my life, and the way I look at things. It's affected my confidence, and my "self talk." I was introduced to it during an all day conference last September on "Using the Internet to Market Your Business."
I've always … (30 comments)
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mortgages: Latest And Greatest Underwriting Changes for October, 2008 - 10/03/08 12:37 PM
We could think of this as the latest effort to make Main Street feel more comfortable about the "assets" we are holding in Fannie and Freddie (and I guess that extra 700 Billion too)... but anyway you look at it, mortgage lending rules are getting tighter. See that guy balancing on one foot, … (6 comments)
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