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When Will the Mortgage Party Be Over?
Is the low mortgage rate party about to end? You probably know that mortgage rates change every day. When the market is volatile, lenders may even change their prices a couple of times during the day....
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Is There Really a Mortgage Dartboard?
Mortgage rates fluctuate every day You probably know that mortgage rates change every day. If the market is volatile, lenders may even change their prices a couple of times during the day. There is a...
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Competing With Cash Buyers–The Word is Out
The upturn in real estate activity brings many changes in the way we and other mortgage originators are doing business. We’re crazy busy, but we and many of our clients (and their Realtors©) are...
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A Happy Home Buyer Story
Not Amit’s actual house, but close Two big grins greeted me when I walked into the small conference room with loan documents under my arm. Amit, the buyer and Moti, her Realtor© had worked hard to get...
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Yeah, mortgage rates are higher. So what?
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke opened his mouth on Wednesday at his press conference, the market immediately tanked. He could have said, “Nice day, isn’t it?” and the market would have tanked as well,...
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The Curse? of Self-Employment
You work for yourself. You have the privilege of risking your cash and covering overhead. You get to work twice as hard as other people, maybe even for less money. But what you have is yours. There is...
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Ask Joe Money
We get a lot of questions at The Mortgage Insider. It seemed to me that it would be a good idea to have my alter ego, Joe Money, handle some of them for me. Here’s what showed up in the ol’ mailbox...
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The Appraisal Dartboard
My client was ecstatic. After making offers on five different properties, he had finally gotten an acceptance. He had prevailed over three competing offers because his offer was more than $20,000 above...
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A Minor Improvement in FHA Mortgages
FHA loans are about to get a tiny bit less expensive The FHA loan program has been in existence since 1934. It provides government support for low to moderate-income borrowers to buy homes, offering...
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FHA Mortgage—The Wrong Choice?
The venerable FHA loan has been an important path to home ownership for moderate-income buyers since 1934, when it came into being as part of the National Housing Act. Since that time, some 35 million...
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Will changing mortgage insurance fix FHA?
FHA loans are about to get a little less unattractive (yes, I know that’s a double negative. I did it on purpose). Since 1934, millions of people have become homeowners because of the Federal Housing...
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The Horror of the FHA Mortgage
HUD Secretary Julián Castro I came across an article recently in one of the mortgage industry trade rags: “Republicans Hammer Castro over FHA Premium Reduction.” A little backstory: FHA is a federally...
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Talking to Reporters about Mortgages
I spend a fair amount of time speaking with journalists who are working on stories about the housing and mortgage industry. I like to help out, and it does give one a bit of an ego boost to see your...
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Any Realtor® will tell you that you MUST have a solid preapproval letter from a lender before you make an offer. The process is not as difficult as you might think—but it is essential for success....
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Once your loan officer submits your loan package for approval, it goes through a mysterious process called “underwriting.” When you know what that process is, though, you’ll see that it really is...
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Homebuying 101–Pricing Adjustments
The rates you see on line are probably not the rate you can actually get. This movie explains why. The post Homebuying 101–Pricing Adjustments appeared first on The Mortgage Insider.
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