mortgage rates: Long-Dormant Lacey Mortgage Rates Now “Poised” - 12/12/16 03:18 PM
  
 Most of us favor a high degree of predictability when it comes to things like the interest rates on mortgages. In that realm, “poised” is a bad word. When anything is poised, it means it’s about to do something different: change. For those who like predictability, change is unwelcome.
But this week should provide both good and bad news when it comes to change and Lacey mortgage rates. For once, a change in the immediate future is pretty nearly a sure thing. Although rates are poised, they’re poised for a comfortingly predictable change.
What happens after that is a different story.
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mortgage rates: Of Olympia Mortgage Rates, The Odyssey, and Dion - 09/06/16 02:15 AM
  
 The legendary figure of The Wanderer has different connotations in different cultures. English teachers in Olympia high school classrooms have always taught some of the most famous parts of Homer’s Odyssey—the heroic story of Ulysses, the most famous wanderer. Ulysses wandered in and out of a lot of trouble…
Planets are wanderers, too. During ancient night times, ancient shepherds looked up and watched them meandering restlessly among the stars, so they called them planets (“wanderers”). Dion (of Dion and the Belmonts) was the most celebrated wanderer of the 60s—at least his hit song claimed that he roamed “around around around around”).
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mortgage rates: Mortgage Rate Blahs are the Good Kind for Lacey Home Buyers - 05/10/16 07:14 AM
 
This is sort of fun:
Mortgage rates, Lacey home loan applicants and soon-to-be-applicants should be delighted to hear, went down again last week. The national average quoted in the Washington Post notched down to 3.61% on a 30-year fixed loan, down from blah blah blah…
You will probably not be surprised by the presence of the multiple blahs. By now, everyone in Lacey has simply heard this so often and for so long that it has practically lost all meaning. But it’s sort of fun to realize that we were already celebrating the decline in mortgage rates to 3.8% a year ago, … (0 comments)