Thoughts and Ideas About Mortgages and Related Industries

Just wanted to give you a quick heads-up that the Federal Reserve is ending its mortgage-backed securities purchase program today.  This will decrease the liquidity in the market which will take the floor out from the bond prices meaning rates are likely to trend up.  This is a very logical scena...

Just wanted to remind everyone to pull your FHA case numbers before April 5th in order to receive the current up-front mortgage insurance premium of 1.75%.  The rate increases to 2.25% for case numbers pulled on or after April 5th - that's next Monday. Update: With business closed and Monday bein...

FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 2010 Las Vegas - Who you know or what you know, which is more important? Those of us who are in sales need to develop relationships with our customers and / or our referral partners in order to earn business and develop loyalty, who you know. In situations when I have been the ...

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010 Las Vegas:  There's a fine line... If you watch someone who is really good at what they do - a great pianist or guitarist, a fantastic athlete, or a surgeon (I know, you usually don't get to watch surgeons) - they usually make it look very easy. Sometimes these things lo...

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2010 Re-print of Jed Wunderli's blog - jedwunderli.blogspot.com: FHA has announced that a number of changes will be made in an effort to get the insurance fund back up to the level mandated by congress. The changes that were announced will take effect in the summer. The up-f...