lakewood lending group: Make It Easy on Others To Share Your Blog Post on Twitter
- 07/06/09 11:28 AM
Below are the easily repeatable steps on how to create a hyperlink for your blog that will allow someone else to share your blog on Twitter with your personal description. You need to ensure that your entire message is within 140 characters. The easiest way to do this is by typing it in on Twitter, but don't hit submit. You'll need a URL shortner or sweetener, my favorite is bit.ly found at: www.bit.ly. You'll need to sign up for it, but it's free. Bit.ly gives you some tracking and reporting ability, there are many other Shortner's out there. One user (3 comments)
Don't miss out on this excellent opportunity to get your questions answered. Hurry the $8,000 tax credit ends December 01, 2009; and the Federal Reserve is scheduled to stop buying Mortgage Backed Securities December 31, 2009 (which could lead to rates in the mid 6's). (0 comments)
lakewood lending group: Call to Action - HVCC
- 06/09/09 10:44 AM
The National Association of Mortgage Brokers recently sent out a call to action in attempt to get the industries voice heard. I want to make the mortgage brokers that are not in the association know, as well as appraisers, Real Estate Brokers, Consumers, and Title Agents know what they can do to have help the situation. NAMB has set up a HVCC Resource Center, which can be found at: NAMB HVCC Resource Center NAMB also wants to receive emails detailing specific issues that have been created by HVCC (delays in closings, cost to consumer, lost rate lock, etc.). (28 comments)
Among the requirements: Closing Agents must deposit all funds received in connection with a real estate transaction into an escrow account unless all the parties involved agree to another arrangement.All funds in the amount of $10,000 or more, in the aggregate, received from any party to a real estate transaction must be wired, irrevocably credited to the closing agent's escrow account. Checks for $10,000 ore more are prohibited. This is to guarantee that funds are immediately available.Funds less than $10,000 in aggregate, received from (2 comments)