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How to Find Proof of Your Cancelled Mortgage

How to Find Proof of Your Cancelled Mortgage

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-22T14:06:19+00:00 June 22nd, 2018|

How to find proof of your cancelled mortgage if your lender didn’t send you a cancelled note. Q: How you can figure out if a cancelled mortgage is cancelled by the county? A: In a recent column, we discussed how a lender should and generally does send the cancelled note and mortgage back to the [...]

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Buying Your First Home: How to Find the Right Mortgage Lender

Buying Your First Home: How to Find the Right Mortgage Lender

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-22T14:05:51+00:00 June 22nd, 2018|

Buying your first home: How to find the right mortgage lender that will have your best interests at heart. Hint: It may not be who your real estate agent suggests. Q: I recently saw you on the news and I wanted to reach out to ask you a few questions. I wanted to take the [...]

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New Report Shines Spotlight on Scarcity of Affordable Housing

New Report Shines Spotlight on Scarcity of Affordable Housing

By Ryan Wangman| 2018-06-20T14:50:59+00:00 June 20th, 2018|

A recent report from the Harvard JCHS takes a look at the important differences in the housing market since the 1980s. Many staples of American life look different in the three decades since 1988, from big hair to the cost of college to the rising number of Americans burdened by housing costs. In a recent [...]

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Do You Get the Deed After Your Final Mortgage Payment?

Do You Get the Deed After Your Final Mortgage Payment?

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-14T16:06:15+00:00 June 14th, 2018|

Do You Get the Deed After Your Final Mortgage Payment? After making your final mortgage payment, there are a many documents you should receive, but is the home deed one of them? Q: My husband and I paid off our home in 1999, 10 years early. We never received a deed. The loan company said [...]

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Home Buyers, Mortgage Lenders, Home Builders and the Surprising 2018 Housing Market

Home Buyers, Mortgage Lenders, Home Builders and the Surprising 2018 Housing Market

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-14T15:53:44+00:00 June 14th, 2018|

Home buyers are out in force. Sellers are scarce. The number of homes for sale on the market is as low as it was more than twenty years ago. As a result of supply and demand, half of all housing markets are overvalued in terms of price. The median home price in San Francisco is [...]

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Student Loans to Blame for Millennials’ Lack of Homeownership

Student Loans to Blame for Millennials’ Lack of Homeownership

By Liz Stevens| 2018-06-13T10:45:48+00:00 June 13th, 2018|

Millennial’s student loans have kept them from becoming homeowners because they can’t afford a down payment or tanked their credit defaulting on a loan. If you’re hoping your children will be able to buy a home of their own someday, you might want to keep an eye on how much money they’re taking out in [...]

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What Might be Hiding in the Fine Print of Your Mortgage Documents?

What Might be Hiding in the Fine Print of Your Mortgage Documents?

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-05-29T14:51:51+00:00 June 7th, 2018|

What might be hiding in the fine print of your mortgage documents? In this reader’s case, a prepayment penalty that they may not be able to get out of. Q: I recently took out a mortgage to purchase my first home. It’s a condo. I went with a non-traditional lender that offered a loan about [...]

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Is the Tiny House Trend a Good Investment?

Is the Tiny House Trend a Good Investment?

By Liz Stevens| 2018-06-07T09:21:27+00:00 June 5th, 2018|

The tiny house trend is growing, but there are benefits and concerns to weigh before you invest in this real estate fad. Open floor plans, urban areas and cool color palettes are still trending, according to a recent report from Fixr, a remodeling, installation, and repair project guide. But the most interesting housing trend is [...]

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Parents, Children, Estates and House Title. How Does Property Title Pass After Death?

Parents, Children, Estates and House Title. How Does Property Title Pass After Death?

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-05-29T12:30:13+00:00 June 5th, 2018|

Parents, Children, Estates and House Titles produce a mess if not done properly. When your parents add you to their house title for estate planning purposes, you may not necessarily be granted full ownership of the home after death. Q: My dad died quite some time ago and I have three siblings. We all get [...]

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This is Why Mortgage Lenders are Rolling Back Regulations

This is Why Mortgage Lenders are Rolling Back Regulations

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-01T11:04:15+00:00 June 1st, 2018|

There are a few reasons mortgage lenders are loosening regulations, one of which is a spike in late payments, but these roll backs won't be the cause of the next recession. I was asked on the radio last week if I thought mortgage lenders were loosening regulations too much. Steve Cochran, who hosts morning drive on [...]

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