Home Mortgages: Think Before You Borrow
In today's overheated housing market, lenders are making it easier and easier to get a mortgage. For example, some lenders have lowered the credit score needed to qualify for a mortgage. Others have increased the debt load that borrowers can carry or have made it easier for borrowers to get loans ... more...

Is a Condo Right for You?
Condos offer an affordable alternative to buying a house, at often half the price of a single family home. Before you buy one, you should be extra cautious.In some areas, construction-defect litigation is rampant, sale disclosures are troublesome and new and confusing laws are often enacted, and ... more...

Bad Credit Home Loans
There was a time that seems like decades ago when people with less than pristine credit were not able to get home loans. At that time people with bad credit were all but assured that their dreams of homeownership would never come to fruition. Luckily, for many people, those days are long gone ... more...

Making Sense of Mortgage Speak
Applying for a home loan can be overwhelming. You will need to contend with mountains of papers, contracts, documents; and do lots of planning and coordination. Add to that a whole language unique to the mortgage loan process and you have the makings of an experience unlike any other.Agreeing to ... more...

How To Get a Mortgage If You're Self-Employed
If you are self-employed, work on a contract basis, or have an income that is irregular or comes from multiple sources, it will generally be harder for you to get a mortgage than it is for someone who is an employee and can easily prove their income.A self-employed person is someone who runs their ... more...

Instant Loans Prompt Response to Unforeseen Financial Fiasco
Loan market is flooded with loan types that cater to specific needs of loan borrowers car loans, education loans, mortgage, home loan etc. But what if a requirement of 250 springs up and you dont have the needful cash and neither can postpone the payment. For this specific cash constraint, there ... more...

Zero Down Payment Mortgage Can It Be Done?
Ive been renting for years now; Ive always paid my rent on time. Ill start a savings account soon, so I can buy a house: sound familiar? How much is in that savings account now? Just as I thought, not enough, you went on vacation, found a car you had to have, or WOW; look at the flat panel T.V. ... more...

Loan Officer Marketing: Content Strategies for Keeping in Touch
So youve just returned to your office from a successful meeting with a Realtor. At the end of it they expressed optimism in your services, and told you some famous last words, Ill be sure to send you my next deala week goes by, no dealtwo weeks go by, no deala month later, still no deal.To make ... more...

How to Negotiate a Successful Short Sale
Anyone who has ever profited from doing a short sale has also without a doubt had one or two rejected at some point. Guess what? It is just the nature of the beastAs with all types of sales; youre playing a numbers game.There are very few investors who truly know how to successfully negotiate a ... more...