Olan Carder on Mortgages and Charlotte Home Loans

Have you seen the new Date Night movie?  It is pretty hilarious.  My wife and I went to see it on our anniversary and thought it was pretty funny.  Tina plays a bored suburban house wife and real estate agent.  In one of the opening scenes she is showing an amazing home to a young couple.  You se...

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I have been a loan officer for over a decade, so needless to say I have handled a lot of forms.  Loan officers have many responsibilities and one the most important is helping propective homebuyers understand the costs and fees of buying a home. Does the new Good Faith Estimate make it easier for...

I wanted to write a follow up post to the one I wrote last month about Bank of America and their useless wonderful subordination department.  For those of you who read it, you remember my clients were forced to cancel their refinance (which saved them $300) because Bank of America would never res...

People say some crazy things when they get upset.  We all know that ALL Realtors aren't liars.  Just like we know ALL lenders, politicians or attorneys aren't liars either.  ALL Bank CEO's aren't greedy con-artists, but it sure makes us feel better to have someone to blame for our problems in lif...

Everyone has heard about the first time homebuyer tax credit but many people still have questions.  There are several important changes made that make the new credit a lot better than last year's model.  If you would like to learn more about the new credit you can click below to read a full artic...

Northern Trust, an investment bank that has remained profitable even through the last year, sponsors a PGA golf event.  Their event just received an enormous amount of criticism from certain members of congress becuase they help client events at "fancy hotels" and provided live bands at parties, ...

Click here for the link to the CNBC article. As a loan officer and Charlotte native this article really caught my interest.  It is basically connecting the overall impact on the economy with the sub-prime meltdown and showing how this has a huge effect on Charlotte as a banking center.  Charlotte...