challenge: Tips to Successfully Obtaining a Mortgage in Today's Lending Environment - 10/16/11 09:23 AM
With today's tightened lending guidelines, it is critical for buyers and agents to understand what it needed to successfully obtain mortgage financing today.  This post was inspired by Buyer frustrated over the mortgage process in Key West Florida. written by Elizabeth Birmingham.  In it, she brings up a lot of today's challenges faced by buyers and agents.  By being better educated, agents can also do their part to lessen the negative impact. 
Many of the issues that she mentioned below are there for very valid reasons given the current state of the real estate market. 
1. Bad Credit scores are now between 620 and 660. The bank usually … (10 comments)

challenge: 30 in 30 Is Complete and Still Posting!!!! - 09/30/10 08:48 AM
The 30 in 30 challenge was definitely quite a challenge.  Trying to post at least once every single day does take a huge time commitment.  I did learn quite a bit during it though.  I started out by deciding to do a daily Market Update post.  Since I read market updates every day, I thought this would be something I could realistically take on.  For it, I read some of the email alerts that I receive every morning.  I would then go through and pick out some facts and statistics to share.  To make it more local, I added some Atlanta … (5 comments)

 

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