When it comes to financing or re-financing a home, families with stay-at-home moms may have difficulty based on the fact that one spouse has little or no visible income.
This leads some financiers to try and swing loans or re-finances that are easier to approve initially, but may be detrimental to the homebuyer in the long […]
Are you about to lose your home, go through foreclosure, and destroy your credit? If so you’re not alone. Countless families across the country today are dealing with the very same problem today.
Consider one family’s story - the LaVan family. They had a beautiful two story home in a great neighborhood and things were […]
If you want to stop foreclosure now there are many things you can request to the bank or lender if you want to keep your home. The things you can do include a reinstatement plan, repayment plan, loan modification, loan refinance, loan forbearance, and more. If you really want to keep your home you should […]
On July 5th 2008, Robert Powell of the Wall Street Journal online posted an article which quotes the Chief Executive of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Mary Schapiro, entitled Three Warnings for Hard Times: Beware of Strategies That Put Nest Egg at Risk.
I really must admit that when I first read the title […]
On 7/30/2008 President Bush signed HR 3221 into law which has many significant effects on homeowners. The Bill, in its final form, covered a number of subjects that Congress had been trying to resolve from the modernization of FHA, to foreclosure assistance for homeowners, to the shoring up for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The […]
There are new federal regulations on mortgage lenders coming out way soon. Recently, President Bush signed a bill into law at the end of July that encourages state regulatory commissions to register all residential loan originators, and creates a national database of lenders that tracks fraudulent activity from state to state. This will […]
Hundreds of thousands of Americans have either been foreclosed on, or are facing foreclosures. Neither the banks, nor the homeowners want this to happen. Banks don’t want it to happen because they’re forced to write down foreclosures, which runs the risk of the bank failing. Homeowners don’t want to lose their homes.
The root cause of […]
Getting a loan pre-approval from a lender is a quick, easy process. Typically, you fill out a few pages about your financial situation, the bank runs the numbers through a computer approval system, and you’re pre-approved the next day.
So, how do so many people mess it up so badly? Simply put, people lie (either […]
There are a couple significant reasons behind the current crisis in our mortgage market. One is that mortgage brokers haven’t been giving borrowers enough information to make an informed decision. The bigger issue is that borrowers haven’t been asking the right questions! And how are they even supposed to know what to ask? School doesn’t […]
If you’re an older person who has been living in the same home for years then there is a good chance that your house desperately need some sort of home repair or home improvement but you simply don’t have the money to pay for the construction costs or home improvement professionals needed to make your […]
