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Well, as if we didn't have enough changes taking place at lightening speed, now one more change from Fannie Mae came down effective August 1, 2008. This time the issue swirls around new rules that will affect converting your principal residence to
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We're always into finding nifty little widgets to add to our website and recently found this one. Since we know the cost of commuting in the Phoenix/Scottsdale metropolitan area can be huge, we wanted to add this feature to help you in your decision
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For those of you, like us, who are numbers people, we wanted to pass along some more interesting facts (another hat tip to one of our lending partners, Rob Kanyur at Nova Home Loans in Scottsdale , AZ - www.robk@novahomeloans.com or www.robkanyurcandomortgages.com
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BY THE NUMBER$. (Hat tip to one of our lending partners, Rob Kanyur at Nova Home Loans in Scottsdale, AZ - RobK@NovaHomeLoans.com or www.RobKanyurCanDoMortgages.com Hope you find it as interesting as we did!!! 1. MOST RECENTLY - 7 of the last 9 months
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We don't normally like to turn our blog posts into long diatribes, but at the same time, there have been so many changes this past year in lender financing, as well as multiple changes at Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac and most recently with FHA, we felt
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Just received this from one of our strategic partners regarding today's decision on the "Fed Auction Facility Program"... The markets were looking for a holiday treat yesterday by way of a 50 basis point Fed cut in the Discount Rate. And
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Well, here we are just 15 days before Christmas and as usually happens this time of year, many folks are saying there are just too many presents for their bank account and already their credit cards are totally maxed out..what's a shopper to do???
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Time again for Mortgage Mondays and today we're going to chat a bit about our homes...and how we view them. Perhaps it's just because we come from the Midwest and homes are viewed a bit differently there than they are here in the Southwest. Or
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Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have announced that in order to compensate for the high delinquency credit losses on FNMA and Freddie MAC loans, certain loans that close after December 31, 2007, will be re-priced to reflect the new risk-based pricing. The
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Welcome to Mortgage Mondays where we discuss lending, finances, and the markets overall. As promised in our post this past Saturday, today we are going to share a few more stats with you. Over the next few months, we'll be posting and sending out
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Ok...so maybe we have a warped sense of humor, but we find this one pretty funny and needed to put it in our Silly Saturdays this week. Unfortunately, this is the kind of stuff we read every day in the media, and then of course they NEVER take any responsibility
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Welcome to Flippin Fridays with Househangout where we talk about what flipped (and what didn't) in the Phoenix metropolitan area over the past week. ( Note: This data has been pulled from the Arizona Regional Multiple Listing Service and is deemed
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Welcome back to Mortgage Mondays where we discuss lending, finances, and the markets overall. As promised in Friday's post, we're going to discuss a couple of opposing reports that came out over the past couple of weeks regarding the state of
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Welcome to Flippin Fridays with Househangout where we talk about what flipped and (what didn't) in the Phoenix metropolitan area over the past week. Since we're just getting a jump on a new month, we decided to take a look at the first nine days
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It's time once again for Househangout's Top 10 Thursdays! There's been a bit of news out the past couple of days about where the market is headed and the fact that home prices will only continue to decline in the Phoenix/Scottsdale market.
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