Mortgage Information

You may have heard people, especially mortgage lenders, extolling the virtues of biweekly payments, saying that you can save thousands of dollars and take 5-7 years ...
Author: Jeanette Joy Fisher

Before you take out a home loan or make any major purchase, you should be aware that any prospective lender will want to take a look at your credit report. Your cred ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

Most consumers are aware that a history of paying bills late or not at all can hurt one’s ability to obtain a loan. All financial transactions are recorded by three ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

The housing market has exploded, with home prices rising beyond all reason in some markets. Home prices have doubled or tripled during the last five years, and in so ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast region recently and left nothing but destruction in her wake. Thousands of people are homeless, jobless and penniless, ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

A new study by National City Corp. looked at home values for 299 American cities and compared them to where they “should be” based on a number of economic factors th ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

The booming real estate market has allowed many Americans to become “equity rich.” They may not have a lot of cash on hand, but they might have equity in their homes ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

When shopping for a home loan, getting a competent loan officer (and an ethical one) is far more important than saving a fraction of a percentage point on your inter ...
Author: Joel McDonald

Identity theft has been a hot topic in the news during the last few years. Just a month or so ago, forty million credit card numbers were compromised due to a comput ...
Author: Charles Essmeier

If you have bad credit and are looking for a home loan, there are a few things you can do to improve your chances of getting approved and to help you get a reasonabl ...
Author: Carrie Reeder