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Posted on: Monday, May 3, 2010
How To Avoid Mortgage Pitfalls
How To Avoid Mortgage Pitfalls
By Nick Messe
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There comes a time in just about everyone’s life when they will try to obtain a mortgage. Becoming a homeowner is part of the American dream, but sometimes the excitement gets in the way of paying attention and not really understanding the type of mortgage you are getting. This is basically why there is now [...]

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Posted on: Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Loan Mod Score Card
Loan Mod Score Card

At the top of the list was Saxon Mortgage modifying half of its 72,709 eligible home loans. Of these 7.6% were made permanent with 9.1% washing out of the plan. Saxon was followed closely by CitiMortgage

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Posted on: Friday, January 15, 2010
Crisis Lessons Learned
Crisis Lessons Learned

“Somehow, we just missed, you know, that home prices don’t go up forever,” testified James Dimon, chief executive of J.P. Morgan Chase. Mr. Dimon seems to have forgotten the lessons of the Japanese real estate and stock bubble of the 1980s, which crashed twenty years ago this month when Dimon was a mere youth of 33.

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Posted on: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Financial Crisis Inquiry Begins
Financial Crisis Inquiry Begins

The hearings are similar to the Pecorra investigations for the US Senate in the 1930’s that dug out the reasons behind the 1929 stock market crash and led to financial reform.

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Posted on: Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Optimism, Albeit Guarded
Optimism, Albeit Guarded

As 2009 winds down, two pieces of good news released yesterday are significant for homeowners. The first is that for the fifth consecutive month home prices rose in October, according to the Standard and Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index. The second is that according to the Conference Board, consumer confidence has edged back up to [...]

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Posted on: Monday, December 21, 2009
End of Sub 5% Refi?
End of Sub 5% Refi?

This past week, mortgage giant Freddie Mac’s survey showed that the average interest on a 30 fixed mortgage had inched up to 4.94%. Across the board, expect rates to then head up pushed by the expanding budget deficit, and inflation pressures caused by a rebounding economy

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