YourHome-YourMoney.com Blog - Madison, Wisconsin Real Estate Lending

12 April 2007With the April 17th Federal Income Tax deadline looming as a reminder, "taxes" in all forms moves to the forefront of our minds.  Property tax in particular is becoming a major issue in Florida (although I think insurance should).  No one is certain as how to get rising taxes under c...

11 April 2007 - Madison, WisconsinOur website - like others who use Active Rain - is provided by ALAMODE.com. We pay for the hosting service and template. We can modify it within certain limits, so it is unique to each user. ALAMODE really strives to support us and help us provide tools, value, b...

5 April 2007I just had a very disappointing blogging experience here on ActiveRain.  It was my first negative experience of any kind on AR and, frankly, it disturbed me.  Without revealing any details, I will only say that a blog comment was misunderstood and then taken personally by the host, wh...

4 April 2007                                                                                                                                             Reprinted form Tom Domin's Mortgage Marketing Toolkit article pages.  As some of you may have figured out, I like Tom and his advice, tools, and...

3 April 2007Now is the TimeThe (fill in title here) ruler of Libya since 1969 is a man known as Moammar Khaddafy...or maybe Muammar Qaddafi...perhaps Mommar Gaddafi...or... ??  The truth is no one really knew because his name didn't transliterate very well into English.  An article in the London ...

2 April 2007 I'll be brief.  I cannot believe my eyes. Every day and week as I prepare for my business - and radio show - I receive news feeds or do Google searches about the latest real estate news.  As foreclosures and SubPrime lending are currently the "hot" topics right now - every digital an...

1 April 2007 Modified reprint of our March 9th  Your Home-Your Money.com website blog.  This was the final show of an eight-week radio series we did on selling For Sale By Owner, subtitled "FSBO RADIO".  The series was broadcast through Madison 1670 - the Pulse (WTDY) every Saturday mornindg at n...

31 March 2007FSBOs are your friend.  When you consider (depending upon the source) that about 70% of FSBOs are eventually sold by Realtors, there is a massive market out there.  Can they be YOUR market?One simple tool - one idea:  You can help a FSBO with a CMA to help them price their home (per ...

26 March 2007Monday, March 12th, the  Wall Street Journal carried an article entitled "Why Your Home Isn't the Investment You Think It Is."  In this article WSJ reporter David Crook focuses only on the financial aspects of owning a home, and not very positively at that.  He quotes a large investm...

Those of us in the lending business are always looking for ways to improve our presence - and our bottom line - in our geographic area and lending niche.  Most of the mortgage "gurus" (didn't The Beatles bring that term to the American public?) are quite proud of their little pearls of wisdom and...