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Gretchen Faber on Eight Home Closing Essentials.
Here’s some weekend real estate reading from Gretchen Fabor. Have a great weekend.
08/30/2008 12:05 AM
Are We Looking at a New Savings and Loan Crisis?
Every three months the FDIC issues their “Quarterly Banking Profile.” Most people — even serious investors and Wall Street — have never paid these reports much mind. With the credit crunch, however, people are starting to pay attention. The latest report is chock-full of scary statistics. For starters, insured commercial banks reported net income of [...]
08/29/2008 09:44 PM
Should I refi?
Ok, maybe the question should be,
“Can I refi?”
Whether you can or cannot, the Fed’s (as in the Federal Reserve Board) just announced a new site for homeowners that is supposed to help them decide if it is better to refinance or stay with what they have.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/refinancings/default.htm
It does contain some solid and useful information. It explains [...]
08/28/2008 06:49 PM
The FDIC … How Safe Is Your Money, Anyway?
The Wall Street Journal has reported that the FDIC may have to go to the Treasury Department to borrow money in order to handle a rash of bank failures. It begs the question: how safe is your money, anyway?
The FDIC was created in 1933, spurred into existence by the vast number of bank failures during [...]
08/27/2008 12:48 PM
RESPA signings, what the heh?
I still don’t get how notary signing agents are permitted to go to loan applicants and have loan application packages signed for a fee and NOT consider this part of the loan origination process.
Here’s a thread on Notary Rotary discussing what are called RESPA signings. A RESPA signing is the upfront loan application package containing [...]
08/27/2008 10:50 AM
Lenderama on your iPhone
I’ll admit right now that I embarked on this project without any knowledge as to the percentage of lenderama’s readers that have an iPhone. I knew at least one person did (me), and he really wanted an iPhone optimized version of lenderama. So here it is.
Just navigate to lenderama.com
Lenderama’s got a slick iPhone look to [...]
08/27/2008 04:10 AM
Mortgage Market Update
Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina this time. Just last night I was in Miami, FL, now I am in Buenos Aires, and by tomorrow morning I will be in Dallas, TX. Mortgage backed securities are having a similar tale, you just don’t know where they will be next.
Why?
Well, let’s review what happened this last week [...]
08/25/2008 08:42 AM
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