Archive for the 'Mortgage' Category

Mortgage Options in Orem, Utah

Once you have found the real estate that you want to purchase in Orem, Utah, you will have to decide on what kind of mortgage you are going to get. There are certain factors that you must take into consideration when deciding on a mortgage and it is not a decision that should ever […]

Pros and Cons of the Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure

There are good and bad things that come with the deed in lieu of foreclosure. If you are unable to make the monthly mortgage payments on your home anymore you might consider this as your option. There are pros and cons to this which might help you make your decision.
Pros / Positives
The biggest positive of […]

Home Financing, Refinancing and Equity Loans

When it comes to financing or re-financing a home, families with stay-at-home moms may have difficulty based on the fact that one spouse has little or no visible income.
This leads some financiers to try and swing loans or re-finances that are easier to approve initially, but may be detrimental to the homebuyer in the long […]

Strategy to Stop Foreclosure - Sell the House

Are you about to lose your home, go through foreclosure, and destroy your credit? If so you’re not alone. Countless families across the country today are dealing with the very same problem today.
Consider one family’s story - the LaVan family. They had a beautiful two story home in a great neighborhood and things were […]

Housing Bill: Seniors and Reverse Mortgages

On 7/30/2008 President Bush signed HR 3221 into law which has many significant effects on homeowners. The Bill, in its final form, covered a number of subjects that Congress had been trying to resolve from the modernization of FHA, to foreclosure assistance for homeowners, to the shoring up for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
The […]

Reverse Mortgages = Journalistic Opportunism

On July 5th 2008, Robert Powell of the Wall Street Journal online posted an article which quotes the Chief Executive of The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Mary Schapiro, entitled Three Warnings for Hard Times: Beware of Strategies That Put Nest Egg at Risk.
I really must admit that when I first read the title […]

Basic Things You Can do to Stop Foreclosure Now

If you want to stop foreclosure now there are many things you can request to the bank or lender if you want to keep your home. The things you can do include a reinstatement plan, repayment plan, loan modification, loan refinance, loan forbearance, and more. If you really want to keep your home you should […]

Federal Regulation for the Home Lending Market

There are new federal regulations on mortgage lenders coming out way soon. Recently, President Bush signed a bill into law at the end of July that encourages state regulatory commissions to register all residential loan originators, and creates a national database of lenders that tracks fraudulent activity from state to state. This will […]

Loan Modification: Stop A Foreclosure Before It’s Too Late

Hundreds of thousands of Americans have either been foreclosed on, or are facing foreclosures. Neither the banks, nor the homeowners want this to happen. Banks don’t want it to happen because they’re forced to write down foreclosures, which runs the risk of the bank failing. Homeowners don’t want to lose their homes.
The root cause of […]

Buy to Let Bridging Loan Advice

A buy to let mortgage is a type of mortgage loan obtained to buy a property. The property is obtained to be let out by the buyer. Sometimes a buy to let bridging loan will be necessary if the mortgage cannot be obtained quck enough or you are in the process of selling a house.
With […]