Selecting A Mortgage Planner
You Can’t Get Your Mortgage News From A Newspaper. And Here’s The Proof.
Mon, 02/08/2010 - 13:02There's a reason why everyone from first-time home buyers to bona fide investors hate the mortgage process -- the media tells them one thing about mortgage rates, and in-the-game loan officers tell them something else.
Why You Can't Trust Your Local Newspaper's Mortgage Rate Advertisements
Mon, 03/30/2009 - 15:49This is the second-best one minute summary you'll get all day. What's the first? That's easy. The advertisement shown at right ran in Saturday's Cincinnati Enquirer. I'm using it to illustrate why you can't rely on your local paper's mortgage rate information. This is not a dig on the Enquirer,...
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Why You Can't Get Your Mortgage News From The Newspaper
Tue, 03/17/2009 - 15:49This clip is from my local Sunday paper's business section. It illustrates why researching mortgages can be confusing (and annoying). We look to our newspapers to tell us the truth; to provide indisputable facts. In this case, MSM=FAIL. Aside from the spelling mistake in the headline, it looks like...
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What To Do When Your Mortgage Lender Goes Out Of Business
Fri, 09/26/2008 - 19:41What To Do When Your Mortgage Lender Goes Out Of Business
The Tangible Difference That A Good Loan Officer Can Make
Wed, 07/09/2008 - 15:22The Tangible Difference That A Good Loan Officer Can Make
"We Do Not Pull Credit" Is Not A Selling Point, It's A Sales Tactic
Tue, 06/03/2008 - 13:04"We Do Not Pull Credit" Is Not A Selling Point, It's A Sales Tactic
"Low Mortgage Rates" Is Not A Selling Feature, It's A Planning Standard
Mon, 02/04/2008 - 15:46"Low Mortgage Rates" Is Not A Selling Feature, It's A Planning Standard
How Active Mortgage Management Can Reduce Your Monthly Mortgage Payments
Fri, 01/25/2008 - 16:35The swing in mortgage rates over the last week has been astronomical. Some mortgage products popped higher by one-half-percent Wednesday afternoon. You can exactly when it happened on the chart. And those losses continued through to Thursday, too. As money...
Homeowners With "Orphaned Mortgages" Pay More Money
Fri, 01/11/2008 - 13:54Each year, the mortgage industry loses some of its employees. Some leave through attrition; some through layoffs; some through natural selection. When business is growing, lost workers are replaced with new hires and the mortgage machine rolls ahead. When mortgage...
Why You Can’t Trust Your Local Newspaper’s Mortgage Rate Advertisements
Tue, 11/30/1999 - 05:00This is the second-best one minute summary you'll get all day. What's the first? That's easy. The advertisement shown at right ran in Saturday's Cincinnati Enquirer. I'm using it to illustrate why you can't rely on your local paper's mortgage rate information. This is not a dig on the Enquirer,...
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