Expert Real Estate Tips: Shopping For Mortgage Brokers
How do you shop for mortgage brokers? Finding a mortgage broker is not just about an interest rate quote. Find a mortgage broker you can trust who will work with you one on one. Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips segment for more information on shopping for great mortgage brokers.
How Are Mortgage Brokers Paid?
What are mortgage brokers paid and how is payment calculated? What is a good faith estimate and how can you tell junk fees from legitimate costs? Watch this Expert Real Estate Tips segment for more information about mortgage brokers fees and how mortgage brokers are paid.
Mortgage Interest Rates Change For Mortgage Refinance
What penalties do you pay when you cancel a mortgage loan refinance? A home owner asks about canceling a mortgage loan refinance because mortgage interest rates dropped four days after he filled out his refinance application. Ilyce says to walk away from the mortgage loan refinance, he has to be…
Mortgage Help If You're Behind In Payments
Recently, many Americans are behind in paying their mortgage loans and may want to learn ways to refinance their mortgage loans. Who can they contact to refinance the mortgage loans? Who can help them figure out a way to make mortgage payments if they're behind?
How has the recent credit crisis and bailout affected mortgage interest rates? To decide whether to refinance an adjustable rate mortgage into a fixed rate loan you need to understand which index your lender uses to set the ARM interest rate. ARMs are often tied to the London InterBank Offered Rate…
Refinance After Mortgage Crisis: Help Finding A Mortgage Lender
It may sound great when you hear you're pre-approved to refinance your mortgage loan. But how can you figure out whether the mortgage lender who wants to refinance your loan is credible, especially after the mortgage crisis? You can call the Better Business Bureau (BBB) and check out what other…
Commercial Real Estate Liabilities After A Divorce
When you own commercial real estate with a former spouse and decide to remarry it may require clarifying the assets you hold. To resolve who's liable for paying the mortgages, it may mean signing a quit claim deed or other documents. But before signing anything about your commercial real estate…
Lien Protects Personal Loan For Home Financing
If you're considering lending money to someone for help with home financing, is a lien on the property the best choice? By placing a lien on the home, or obtaining a mortgage from the home buyer, you can protect your loan during times of uncertainty. When the loan is repaid in full, the lien will be…
Financing Contigency For Home Buyer's Financing
Most home sale contracts include a financing contingency, in case the buyer's financing falls through. Financing contingency sets a time frame for the buyer to find another lender. What options do the listing agent and the seller have when a buyer does not meet a financing contingency deadline?
Taxes Affect Manufactured Home Refinance Decision
The owner of a manufactured home asks whether to pay off the mortgage loan or invest extra money. Since the manufactured home is a second home or investment property, the home owner should consider how his taxes will be affected. Tax software or a tax preparer before can help sort this out before…
Real Estate Market: Improvement Through Employment, Refinancing, And Avoiding Foreclosure
What steps can we take with the economy to improve the real estate market? Keeping people employed, changing refinancing rules and encouraging people to stay in their homes and avoid foreclosure are some possibilities to improve the real estate market. If you have suggestions for how to improve the…
Buying Real Estate During Economic Crisis
Buying real estate during the economic crisis has become more difficult. The current economic crisis has brought many challenges, including the drop in retirement savings and a rise in the unemployment rate that affect the real estate market and home buyers. There is a strong connection between…
Seller Financing Risks Require Due Diligence
A home owner asks about offering seller financing on a home he's selling. He wants to know what's involved in seller financing and who to involve in the transaction. First he needs to assess whether a potential home buyer will make the home mortgage payments and what to do if the buyer later stops…
Owner Occupied Status Affects Mortgage Refinancing
A renter asks about an owner-occupied requirement with regard to mortgage refinancing. The renter says his landlord has refinanced the property twice, each time claiming he lives there. The renter wonders if the landlord breaks the law by claiming the property is owner-occupied during a mortgage…
Seller Financing Deadline Not Met
What is the consequence of not meeting a deadline to repay seller financing for a home? In a well-executed seller financing scenario, the buyer and seller sign a promissory note that details the terms of the seller financing. Can the owner who financed the home take it back if the deadline is not…
Monthly Payments On Mortgage Exceed Refinancing Terms
A home owner says she tried to refinance her home and arrived to the closing to find her monthly payments on her new mortgage would exceed the original refinancing terms. She canceled the refinancing because the monthly payments on the new mortgage would be too high. The lender now wants her to pay…
Quit Claim Deed And Mortgage Assumption
Managing real estate from out of state can be difficult. You may be able to get a family member to agree to take over mortgage payments on a property that you own but your name remains on the mortgage loan unless that loan gets refinanced. A quit claim deed transfers property ownership rights but…
ThinkGlink Radio Show for Jan 13, 2008
This week on the Ilyce Glink Show, Ilyce updated listeners on her visit to Las Vegas for the 2008 Consumer Electronic Show. She then flew to New York for the semi-annual Inman Connect show, which is where technology and real estate meet. She also talked about the stormy financial events of the week…
A homeowner wonders about the best way to finance a home improvement project. Home improvement project financing depends on how quickly one can pay back the loan. Making a smart choice about financing your home improvement project can save you big bucks down the road.
An owner financed mortgage is not working for this home buyer. Ilyce suggests that this ThinkGlink reader work with a real estate attorney to understand her current mortgage and then refinance from a conventional lender.
Should The Feds Help People Who Can't Pay Higher Mortgage Rates?
President Bush unveiled his mortgage relief plan yesterday.
Apparently it will give homeowners who financed homes with adjustable rate mortgages after 2005 a five-year freeze on their rates if they qualify. I'm sure this will bring some relief to homeowners who are eligible. We'll blog more about the…
Financing Options For Investment Property Owner
Financing options for owners of multiple investment properties are limited because of the amount of debt they usually possess. Traditional lenders are not comfortable with the high debt ratio, which limits the financing options they are willing give the owners of multiple investment properties. One…
Pressuring Appraisers Could Land You In Court
With the housing crisis well under way, both lenders and home sellers are trying to squeeze as much value out of homes as they can. This has driven some lenders to pressure appraisers to inflate their assessments.
Now it's not just an industry issue -- it's become a legal issue as well. New York…
Seller May Cancel Sale Due to FHA Mortgage Requirement
When you buy a home with an FHA loan you have to follow their rules, including one where you can't close on a home if it was just sold 90 days earlier. If a seller is eager to sell he may not want to wait that long. Can the seller keep the buyer's deposit if the closing gets delayed or canceled?
ThinkGlink Radio Show for Oct 14, 2007
Today on the Ilyce Glink show, Ilyce talked about the new version of "The Game of Life," the classic HASBRO game, which has replaced the use of with credit cards. Since kids as young as 9 play the game, Ilyce wondered if that was a good thing. It's the game she's going to buy for all of her older…
