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    What Happens If Your Mortgage Servicer Can’t Find Your Loan?

What Happens If Your Mortgage Servicer Can’t Find Your Loan?

By Ilyce Glink| 2020-09-25T11:43:08-05:00 September 25th, 2020|

What happens if your mortgage servicer can’t find your loan? These homeowners couldn’t figure out how to make payments and now they’re in hot water. Q; We have lived in our house for 15 years. About four years ago our mortgage was sold to a different loan servicing company. We called the new company several [...]

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    Understanding COVID-19 Homeowner Relief Resources

Understanding COVID-19 Homeowner Relief Resources

By Liz Stevens| 2020-06-12T10:04:50-05:00 June 12th, 2020|

Understanding COVID-19 homeowner relief resources. How to find coronavirus relief for homeowners offered by mortgage lenders, banks and the government. There’s a lot of confusion about what types of coronavirus relief resources are available for homeowners and who’s eligible for them. Over 60 percent of homeowners have no knowledge of COVID-19 resources or are unsure [...]

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    Is It Smart to Prepay Your Mortgage?

Is It Smart to Prepay Your Mortgage?

By Ilyce Glink| 2020-04-14T11:55:21-05:00 April 14th, 2020|

Is it smart to prepay your mortgage? These are the three different approaches to paying your mortgage that work for homeowners and investors.  Q: I'm 83, have no mortgage, pay my credit cards in full each month and have no car payment. When I first started out in 1961, I bought a 52 chevy for [...]

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    Splitting Mortgage Payments with Parents

Splitting Mortgage Payments with Parents

By Ilyce Glink| 2020-03-06T11:01:56-06:00 March 6th, 2020|

Splitting mortgage payments with parents. This reader wants to know how to minimize tax implications and how to protect their later inheritance. Q: I have been discussing assisting my father with his mortgage now that he is retired. We have decided on a 60/40 split of the monthly payment, and I’ll pick up the larger [...]

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    How to Find Old Mortgage Loan Records

How to Find Old Mortgage Loan Records

By Ilyce Glink| 2019-07-11T10:07:52-05:00 July 12th, 2019|

How to find old mortgage loan records? This homeowner wants to find proof of old mortgage payments made before they refinanced and modified their loan. Q: I purchased my home back in 2004 and got a mortgage with a lender that has since been purchased by one of the huge banks. I made all of [...]

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    How Do I Pay My First Mortgage Payment?

How Do I Pay My First Mortgage Payment?

By Liz Stevens| 2019-09-02T08:23:54-05:00 March 19th, 2019|

How do I pay my first mortgage payment? After closing the sale on buying a home it’s time to start sending payments to your mortgage servicer. Buying a home is the most stressful event of modern life. Now that it’s done, you can breathe a sigh of relief, settle into homeownership and pay your first [...]

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    I’m Nearing Retirement. Should I Pay Off My Mortgage?

I’m Nearing Retirement. Should I Pay Off My Mortgage?

By Ilyce Glink| 2018-06-20T11:26:42-05:00 July 7th, 2017|

When you're nearing retirement, is it a better idea to pay off your mortgage or invest that money?  Q: Greetings! I’m a long-time listener to your radio show and read your free weekly newsletter. You even gave me good advice nearly 10 years ago when I called your show about my real estate in Georgia. [...]

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    Will That Early Mortgage Payment I Made in December Affect My 2014 Taxes?

Will That Early Mortgage Payment I Made in December Affect My 2014 Taxes?

By Guest| 2017-06-16T11:25:17-05:00 January 6th, 2015|

Smart people use the month of December to work on tax reduction strategies. One of the most common tax reduction strategies is to pay your January mortgage payment in December. If you did this, you may be wondering just how doing so will impact your 2014 taxes—the taxes you pay in 2015. If you paid [...]

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