Archives for Mortgages
What Rights Do Renters Have When Their Landlord Goes Into Foreclosure?
Imagine you're a renter. You've been paying your rent faithfully every month. Then you come home from work one day to find an eviction notice on your door. Your landlord…
Need Help Finding That Down Payment for Your Home?
With housing prices and interest rates plummeting faster than interest in watching more Michael Jackson coverage, the savvy investor/home buyer sees a thrilling opportunity that at first glance, may seem…
Meet the $8K Home Buyer Deadline with Help from LGBT Pros
Most people shopping for a home this year are keenly aware that a special $8,000 new home buyer credit is being offered as part of the government's emergency economic stimulus…
5 reasons why it’s smart to strive for a mortgage-burning party.
Burn baby burn. That's our goal! Jeanine and I want to pay off our mortgage in the next ten years. If I had my druthers, it would be sooner. Why?…
The jumbo mortgage is back. Only low-risk borrowers need apply.
In March 2009, there were reports of lenders getting back into the jumbo loan business (this time for their own investment portfolios and not for bond traders on Wall Street):…
Is Now the Time to Refinance?
Mortgage rates continue rising at a much faster than expected pace, and that has put many homeowners into a quandary regarding whether or not to go through with refinance plans.…
Evicted from the ownership society
In the Vanity Fair article about Fannie Mae's Last Stand, the slang term 'œhousers' was used to describe the Fannie people who believed that better housing is the cure to…
The Home Series: Buying a Home?
Part 3 of 3: Buying A Home? To close this series on housing I interviewed a woman named Ann Metzger. She is a practicing Real Estate Agent in southern California…
The Home Series: Saving Your Home?
Part 2 of 3: Saving Your Home? In part two of this three part series I spoke with a Loan Modification Officer who works in an office in Irvine, California.…
The Home Series: Losing Your Home? Saving Your Home? Buying A Home?
I wrote this blog post because buying a home has been on my mind and I wanted to know what was really going on in the housing market. This past…