Matthew's Mortgage Education Blog

ok - we have come to the culmination of everything.  We have our three tools that we need to payoff our existing mortgage in as little as 1/3 to 1/2 the time it normally takes with little or no change to our current lifestyle.We have learned that the first tool is our existing 1st Mortgage.  The ...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Good Economic News today - Gross Domestic Product (GDP) came in higher than expected.  ...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Consumer Confidence slipped to a two year low.  This bad economic news is actually good...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.No news due out for today.  Wall street is waiting for the Fed Meeting on All Hallow's ...

I wondered how long it would take to bite the bullet and write the following review.Our house needing painting and my wife didn't want the normal blah, everyday paint job that most folk are afforded.  So she went and took advantage of her visual arts education, her natural artistic ability and ma...

My wife and I were heading to our favorite watering hole this evening. In Springfield, VA.  (Just a bit of a hike from Laurel, MD.) Since I do the driving (is this a male thing?), she was spending her time watching the other driver's on the road and noticed a interesting characteristic that I thi...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.Countrywide reported a $1.2 Billion quarterly loss, but "promises" to return to profita...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.More Good News for Rates (or bad ecnomic news).  Durable Goods Orders came in at a loss...

The three tools that need to be in place are one's existing mortgage, the HELOC and the knowledge of how to put it all together. Before putting everything together, we should take a look at the different components. An existing mortgage. For arguments sake, let's just talk about a fully amortizin...

Here are the daily thoughts on floating or locking if you are asked by your clients.  As always - consult your favorite mortgage professional who will be able to offer the best advice for YOUR unique situation.How we celebrate the bad things in life.  Merril Lynch took a $7.9 Billion hit on mortg...