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

17 May 2007 - Madison, WisconsinMortgage Brokers are out of control!  They need to be reeled in and registered, like illegal aliens and sex offenders!  They are a menace to American society and have caused more financial woes than the War in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina combined! So it is being spu...

16 May 2007 - Madison, Wisconsin#12 Mortgage Title 101 w/Ben Smaglick - Getting the BasicsEncore performances from Your Home-Your Money Mortgage Talk RadioDescription: Why on earth do we need Title Insurance?! Ben Smaglick, Wisconsin Business Development Manager for First American Title Company j...

16 May 2007 - Madison, WisconsinOur friend Scott Bilker (http://www.debtsmart.com/index.html) had this posted on his website. It's from from Sheriff Ken Jenne of the Broward Sheriff’s Office (Florida) and it's an eye-opener. Scott is dedicated to helping people control their credit card and consu...

7 May 2007 - Madison, WisconsinA few years ago I was attached to a large mortgage lending corporation - a Top Ten.  At one point in my tenure there corporate decided to expand their market presence and set lofty growth goals (for the benefit of stockholders).  And so began a period of rapid hirin...

6 May 2007 - Madison, WisconsinThere's a line in Good Will Hunting that I'll paraphrase.  In a scene where the "townies" are having a bar encounter with the Ivy League rich kids, Matt Damon's character (Will) is exchanging some not-so-harmless banter with a clearly over-matched college kid .  Wil...

29 December 2008 (I'm a forward thinker...) Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - or so it's said - unless it's imitation vanilla extract or imitation chocolate.  Let's take this a step further.  Twitter. OK ARers, or Rainers, or Bloggers or Pointless Remarkers - Sometimes we don't even f...

4 May 2007 - Madison, Wisconsin The Mortgage Guys rip one from the podcasting archives in this favorite about Home Inspections. #22 - RADON, ASBESTOS and LEAD, OH MY!Nope. We're not in Kansas any more Toto - we're in Real Estate! Now it's time to find out what's more dangerous - the Wicked Witch ...

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27 April 2007 - Madison, WisconsinWARNING:  This is a slightly humorous blog.  There is little wisdom here - but there are lessons. There has been some great instruction on AR about using videos to promote your business - unfortunately I did not read them until today.  Back in October of 2006 I w...

26 April 2007 - Madison, Wisconsin (Let's try a retitle)This mortgage-gone-bad story is getting attention across the US as it applies to borrowers everywhere.  According to an article in the online version of the Washington Post, Susan and Bryan Andrews of Cedarburg, Wisconsin refinanced their ho...