mortgage: July 1, 2007 Use a buydown to lower your rate - 07/31/07 06:56 PM
www.santacruzhomefinance.com
Mortgages come in all sizes and variations. The spectrum ranges from adjustable-rate mortgages that have low initial interest rates and low payments to the popular 30-year fixed-rate mortgage that has the highest interest rate and requires the highest payments. On the one hand, it is the stability of the 30-year fixed … (0 comments)

mortgage: July 8, 2007 Is this a good time to buy a home? - 07/31/07 06:54 PM
www.santacruzhomefinance.com
There are so many factors to consider when buying a home it is hard to know where to start. Perhaps one should start by answering the question: why do I want to buy a home?
Because you want to make money or because you don't want to make your landlord's mortgage … (0 comments)

mortgage: July 15, 2007 Home financing still easy to get - 07/31/07 06:51 PM
www.santacruzhomefinance.com
Despite some headlines to the contrary, the economy is doing fine and the mortgage market is alive and well. Our country's economic growth is steady, inflation is within the Fed's target range and at the current national unemployment rate of 4.5 percent, virtually everyone who wants a job has a job.
The … (0 comments)

mortgage: July 29, 2007 Risky home loans not new to this decade - 07/31/07 06:44 PM
www.santacruzhomefinance.com 
No one can deny that today's increased level of notices of default and foreclosures are due, in part, to the relaxed underwriting guidelines that lenders have offered and supported during the years. However, this is nothing new.
Statewide we had almost as many foreclosures in the third quarter of 1996 [15,418] … (1 comments)

 
Mortgage Company: Santa Cruz Home Finance
Peter Boutell
Santa Cruz, CA
More about me…
Santa Cruz Home Finance

Office Phone: (831) 425-1250
Email Me
One of the highlights of my career is to have been selected to write the financing column every Sunday in the Business Section of the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I have been writing that column, “Lending a hand”, every week since 1995.

Links

Tags (Tag Cloud)

Archives

RSS 2.0 Feed for this blog
ATOM 1.0 Feed for this blog

Find CA real estate agents and Santa Cruz real estate here on ActiveRain.
Disclaimer: ActiveRain Corp. does not necessarily endorse the real estate agents, loan officers and brokers listed on this site. These real estate profiles, blogs and blog entries are provided here as a courtesy to our visitors to help them make an informed decision when buying or selling a house. ActiveRain Corp. takes no responsibility for the content in these profiles, that are written by the members of this community.
© 2007 ActiveRain Corp. All Rights Reserved