ARM

Low Interest Rates Make for Great Long Term Investments

by Ken Corsini | August 11, 2011

If you are one of the lucky ones who happen to be in the process of locking in an interest rate over the last week or two, you probably saw that rates are way down. In fact, rates on 15 year fixed mortgages as well as 5 year ARMs hit record lows last week. As [...]

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Commentary

The Sky is Falling . . . We’re Watching and We’re Not Going to Do Anything About It

by Tom Koziol | July 3, 2008

In a previous post I had mentioned I belonged to USAA. For anyone who doesn’t know, USAA is an insurance company founded by Air Force personnel back in the days when military members found it almost impossible to get insurance. As it turns out, I had saved an article from their USAA MAGAZINE, Spring 2007, [...]

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Foreclosures

Foreclosures, Census Data, and Tough Times for Real Estate Agents

by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006

It looks like pending foreclosures from adjustable rate mortgages are affecting lower income people more then the rich, explains Al Tompkins at Poynter Online. Tompkins looks at recent stories in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida) and Winston-Salem Journal (N.C.) which illustrate this quite clearly. Black homeownership is falling in Louisville, Kentucky according the the US [...]

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