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The Top 10 Things to do to Prepare for an Appraisal
How To Prepare for a Home Appraisal You’ve just signed all of the paperwork for your refinance, handed the loan officer the check for the appraisal, and now you’re wondering what is going to happen next. Good news-the appraisal inspection is painl...
Top Ten Reasons to deal with a local loan officer
Top Ten Reasons to deal with a local loan officer: 10. They will probably be at the closing table where you can look them in their eyes. 9. When they come to the closing table you can expect a nice little gift. 8. The fifth time they ask you for t...
Four great ways to blow your home purchase
It happens almost every day. When you work in the regional office of a major lender you hear a lot of stories. When your wife handles a large portion of the files you hear even more. I have certainly had my share of these, too, even when the buyer...
To protect real estate assets, be prepared
To protect real estate assets, be prepared By Harvey S. Jacobs, When life-changing events occur — marriage, divorce, death, incapacity, interstate moves or estate planning — a little bit of legal housekeeping goes a long way toward protecting yo...
How To Respond To A Low Offer On Your Home
Consider before you ignore a very low purchase offer for your home. A counteroffer and negotiation could turn that low purchase offer into a sale.
Housing Crisis Can Be Solved With Equity Sharing
 Recently, there was an OP-ED in the New York Times that proposed Equity Sharing as a solution to the housing crisis. The opinion is sound and it is an attempt to forge an alliance between lenders and their borrowers, which ultimately might be th...
Eliminate the Tax Benefits to Home Ownership?
Eliminate the Tax Benefits to Home Ownership? Not a brilliant idea. Seems you have to get the bottom line which is this: our economy is based on the housing market and tangential services related to the housing industry. This is true everywhere i...
Owners Divorcing - Stay Away??
Today I read an article warning buyers to beware when they are purchasing a home from a divorced couple. The article shared a story or two about experiences which would send a buyer running in the other direction. One where at the last minute th...
10 Reasons for Buying a Home in Today’s Market
I will begin by stating that I’m not a real estate agent and derive no income from real estate sales. The information provided is to help potential home buyers make the most prudent choices regarding the purchase of a home.  As a former home buil...
Second Mortgage or Mortgage Insurance?
Home Affordable Foreclosure Alternatives sounds good at first blush, but is it really going to help? I have borrowed verbatim chunks from Supplemental Directive 09-09 (HAFA) to introduce what HAFA is about and I have added comments where I see co...
Las Vegas NV May 2010 Rental Home Market Report
Renters are becoming buyers finally as resale purchase prices drop and economic conditions in the valley are preventing high numbers of new incoming residents to move here...
Is The FDIC Killing Short Sales?
Is The FDIC Killing Short Sales? As some of you already know, I blogged recently about being interviewed recently by our local NBC news affiliate.
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