Mortgages & Lending

How Three Commercial Mortgage Brokers Saved My Backside!

by Rob Powell | July 26, 2008

Greetings from a jam-packed airplane headed North. I am on my way to go Walleye fishing in South Dakota. I am not an avid fisherman by any means and I have no idea how to fish for Walleye….but off I go to make new friends and to reconnect with another. Anyways…. As some of you [...]

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Commentary

Commentary: How to Really Handle the Foreclosure Problem

by Tom Koziol | July 25, 2008

Last week I opened my big mouth and said I’d present another solution to the foreclosure problem we are facing today. Before I do, I happened across this law: “every insolvency of a bank shall be deemed fraudulent, and the president and directors shall be severally punished by imprisonment and labor in the penitentiary . [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Are Mortgage Brokers An Endangered Species?

by Rob K. Blake | July 13, 2008

By all accounts it seems the banking lobby will get everything they’ve been ask for from Congress over the past decade and in do so may legislate mortgage brokers out of existence. A little history lesson is in order to understand all the political and media spin designed to sway their and public opinion away [...]

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Financing Real Estate

Mortgages That Attract Homebuyers

by Troy Schuricht | May 29, 2008

Do great rates and great service fail to impress you? Well you are not alone. We are in a time where you need to find out who can create value with their services and ideas. And what I mean by value is, attracting customers. A good number of investors plan to sell their property at [...]

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Commentary

Real Estate Lessons Learned Or Lost?

by Charles Feldman | May 7, 2008

Will we ever learn? Doesn’t look like it. You’d think what with all that has gone down with the subprime mortgage/credit mess, the real estate industry (or, at least, segments of it) would be in the forefront of a much needed reform movement. Instead, there seems to be an almost pathological desire to return to [...]

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When Lenders Mess Up, Everyone Suffers!

by Jim Watkins | October 5, 2007

The days of the “Fogamir” mortgages are gone. Surely you remember the Fogamir? “Yes Sir! We can give you a mortgage. If you would just take this application and rather than fill it out, could you breathe heavy onto that reflective square at the bottom?” If it fogged up, you got the mortgage. It was [...]

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