When choosing a good mortgage lender, whether you choose a mortgage broker or a mortgage banker, you’ll want someone who can do the job right. Finding a lender who will take the time to make sure you understand the different loan programs being offered, and will help you decide which loan best meets your needs is key to having a smooth closing. Check out the articles, columns, blog posts, radio shows and videos for more information about mortgage lenders.
House Passes FHA Revitalization Bill
As the Federal Reserve's Open Markets committee was meeting, the House of Representatives was busy working in Washington, DC. The House of Representa...
Taking Personal Responsibility for Your Home Purchase
Much of the mortgage crisis comes back to personal responsibility. In the heat of the moment, buyers rushed out to purchase homes they really couldn't...
Mortgage Lender Cuts Jobs, Shuts Offices
In another sign of the housing market's woes, First Horizon National Corp. is cutting 1,500 jobs, or 50% of its mortgage sales force, and shutting 50 ...
Bankruptcy And Bad Credit Make Mortgage Difficult
After going through a divorce and bankruptcy you may find it difficult to keep making mortgage payments on a property that's not a primary residence, even if it's rented out. To prevent your credit from becoming more bad, you should try to keep making mortgage payments. Perhaps your former spouse, who's also paying part of this mortgage, can help you out until you have more income. Despite bankruptcy and bad credit, it's not a time to give up.
Countrywide To Eliminate Up To 12,000 Jobs
Countrywide Financial (CFC) released the news after the closing bell today, and everyone was wrong. Instead of 5,000, 6,000 or even 10,000 jobs being ...
Real Estate Market Ripple Effect
It's entirely possible that the U.S. won't return to a seller's market until sometime next year or later. The only wrinkle is that next year is a presidential election year and often, the housing market will slow while citizens consider who is running for office and what effect that is likely to have on the national, and local, economies.
Job Cuts Jump on Mortgage Mess
Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an international outplacement firm based in Chicago, announced this morning that planned job cuts zoomed 85 percent in...
Banks Sells Mortgage
When your mortgage is sold, where do you send your payment? When mortgage loans are sold, there must be a company that purchases the rights to service the loan. The company that sold the mortgage is required by federal law to tell you who owns the servicing rights to your loan.
Ilyce Glink on WSB Radio – September 2, 2007
Today's Ilyce Glink show was shortened to 1 hour because of the football schedule. But in that hour, Ilyce talked about the wild week on Wall Street and how the mortgage mess is going to shake out. She took calls and talked about how music is selected for the show. If you want to make a suggestion for show tunes, log onto her website and comment.