Archive for March, 2010

Mortgage Loan Modification Assistance – Don’t Let Your Lender Sell Your Family Home

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

If you have been searching for mortgage loan modification assistance as a way to help save your family from experiencing foreclosure of your home, chances are you have not found much. This is due to the lack of loan mod companies available. Actually, more families today are having better luck finding these companies online.
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What is a Reverse Mortgage?

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

Simply stated, a reverse mortgage is a loan that enables homeowners (age 62 and older) to convert part of the equity in their home into a tax-free income without having to sell the home, give up the title, or take on a new monthly mortgage payment. More and more homeowners are using this to [...]

ARM Mortgage Loans – The Upside and Downside

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

ARM mortgage loans or Adjustable Rate Mortgages are loans that have an interest rate that “adjusts” after an initial fixed rate period. How often arm mortgage loans adjust, depends on the terms of the loan.
Adjustable rate mortgages are considered to be riskier than the traditional 30 year fixed rate loans because if interests rise at [...]

Tips On How To Avoid Foreclosure

Tuesday, March 30th, 2010

Foreclosure occurs when you fail to make your payments and the mortgage company takes legal action to repossess your home or property. Mortgage foreclosure may take place if a homeowner, who has taken out a loan, defaults on the mortgage payments. Through the process of mortgage foreclosure, the lender company can take possession of the [...]

Got A Haunted Home With Your Refinance Home Mortgage?

Monday, March 29th, 2010

You just settled into your new home bought from refinance home mortgage. On the first night, you heard things up in the attic. You shrug it off, thinking it’s only your imagination. The bumps in the night grew louder and things start flying off the wall. You’re living in a haunted house! What to do?
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Mortgage Loans After Foreclosure

Monday, March 29th, 2010

Aside from being a terrible event in your life, having your properties foreclosed present a very big problem when it comes to your credit score.
With a bad credit history, you may find it hard to get other types of loans especially mortgage loans. This is primarily because a low credit score indicates that you are [...]

How Bad Is Today’s Lending Crisis?

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

I went to a very interesting meeting yesterday at which Joe Brown, founder of Milestone Mortgage, who walked us through the start and what he sees as the finish of the current lending crisis. The following comes from notes I took.
After the crash of the tech sector and 9-11, our economy was in a [...]

Online Mortgage Refinancing Advice – Should You Refinance Your Mortgage?

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

Refinancing is nothing more than replacing your existing mortgage loan with a new loan. If interest rates have dropped since you last financed your home, refinancing at a lower rate (even 1 percent) can save you a lot of money.
You don’t have to be a mathematician to figure out whether a refinance would save you [...]

FHA Home Mortgage Loans – Refinance Adjustable Rates and Debt

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Homeowners across the nation continue to turn to cash out refinance and home equity loans for paying off high rate credit cards that are escalating out of control. The Federal Reserve lowered key rates again yesterday, but many homeowners just can’t take the combination of rising adjustable mortgage rates at the same as the [...]

Tips for Homeowners and Buyers to Protect Themselves

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

The first signs of the impending real estate crash were noticed in 2005. In 2007, the market began to tumble and since that time literally thousands of brokers and bankers involved in the mortgage industry have gone out of business. Despite the dire conditions of 2007; however, signs indicate that the national market could fare [...]