When buying your next home, changes to your credit (additional accounts, closing accounts, fluctuating credit card balances) can result in the lowering of your credit score. If your credit score changes, that can affect your interest rate and even the loan approval itself. Therefore, it is imperative that there are no major changes to your [...]
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The Importance of an Updated Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) to Your Pre-Approval
February 4, 2011
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When one is selling their home and subsequently buying another, it doesn’t necessarily come quickly to mind that it takes more than online home value calculators to provide an estimate of what you’ll make on the sale of your home. Even the online seller’s net sheet calculators can only provide an estimate of what your [...]
Read moreMinnesota Home Prices Headed for a Double Dip? – Don’t Believe the Hype
January 27, 2011
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If you’ve been watching the evening news or reading what’s been coming off the press, you might be thinking that the sky is about to fall on Minnesota home prices. You’ll hear a lot of doom and gloom and a lot about the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices. I assure you that the media will not [...]
Read moreDoes Your Loan Officer Wear Lime Green Polka Dotted Underwear?
January 19, 2011
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Okay, perhaps that’s a little TOO much information! Perhaps you really don’t need to know what splash of color your loan officer is bestowing on his or her bloomers on any given day. But what you SHOULD know is who your loan officer IS. Let’s see….scum bucket, slime ball, scammer, fraud frog…any of these ring [...]
Read moreI Want to Prequalify Myself
January 17, 2011
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There are plenty of times that a home buyer just wants the basics, how much of a loan can they afford. They know quite well enough that it isn’t a firm set of numbers not is it any kind of assurance of financing but it serves well enough as an aid in the home searching [...]
Read moreMortgage Insurance IS tax deductible… still.
January 15, 2011
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There is some good news for those of you with mortgage insurance. As part of the tax bill recently passed by Congress… mortgage insurance premiums will remain FULLY tax deductible for those with a household income of less than $100,000. Those with a household income of $100,000-$109,000 may be able to qualify for a PARTIAL deduction. [...]
Read moreWanna Be a Good Mortgage Applicant? . . Then it’s Time to Get Naked!
January 11, 2011
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Qualifying for a Mortgage, we went from one extreme to the next! 3 years ago, if you had a social security number, stated your income and ordered an appraisal (with practically a stated value), you were good to go. Today, when The Mortgage Lady meets with a potential client, one of the opening statements is [...]
Read moreSo You Want Constantly Updated Lists of Foreclosed Properties?
January 6, 2011
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You’re smart enough to get pre-approved early and you know you need to know the market well in advance of buying your home. You want to get a good deal and to that end, you want to buy a foreclosed home but where can you get the best and most current lists of foreclosures? There’s [...]
Read moreSo You Want to Search Homes Without a Realtor Contract?
January 6, 2011
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You’re smart enough to get pre-approved early and you know you need to know the market well in advance of buying your home. But perhaps, you don’t want to waste a Realtors time when you’re not ready to commit to using them just yet. Don’t get me wrong, you’d be a fool not to buy [...]
Read moreWho Is Going To Write These Loans?
January 5, 2011
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The mortgage industry has seen much blood shed in the last 2 years, particularly in the last year. After reading a very interesting magazine article, I began to think about the future…the eminent future and a big question arose, “Who the heck is going to write these loans”? What is the MN Mortgage Mom rambling [...]
Read moreForeclosure Homes Account for 25 Percent of all Q3 2010 Residential Sales
December 5, 2010
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via RealtyTrac - Foreclosure Homes Account for 25 Percent of all Q3 2010 Residential Sales. IRVINE, Calif. – Dec. 2, 2010 — RealtyTrac® (realtytrac.com), the leading online marketplace for foreclosure properties, today released its Q3 2010 U.S. Foreclosure Sales Report™, which shows that foreclosure homes accounted for 25 percent of all U.S. residential sales in the [...]
Read moreC’Mon Minnesota Legislature, . . Just Ban Deficiency Judgments
November 27, 2010
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In some regards, the MN legislature was ahead of the curve on the mortgage and housing crisis. They regulated non-bank lenders and brokers in ways that other states hadn’t even considered. They got ahead of abusive practices towards distressed homeowners and shady loan modification companies. What they have unequivocally failed at is aiding homeowners who [...]
Read moreWhat Does SB931 Mean to Your Seller? . . . It Means That They’re a FHA Buyer!
November 27, 2010
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California has taken, barring the stupidest veto ever, a clever step towards opening doors for homeownership. A primary intention of this bill no doubt was to flush the market of negative equity and aid struggling homeowners. It has an added benefit of streamlining continued homeownership for those who will do a short sale after January [...]
Read moreHEY… remember that $8000 tax credit??
November 2, 2010
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I just closed a purchase transaction last week that was a SHORT SALE that was accepted WAY BACK in March. They buyer was hanging there partly because he wanted to get his $8000 tax credit and of course he REALLY liked the house. Amazing how much red tape we had to get through to get [...]
Read moreIt’s High Noon on Shadow Inventory as Banks Halt Foreclosures
October 5, 2010
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So Ally’s GMAC, Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase are halting foreclosures in 23 states. More importantly, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have stepped in to outline correct foreclosure processes and are demanding lenders adhere to them. What’s more, many more lenders are sure to follow the big 3’s changes. That’s great but what does it mean for us?
Read moreReady To Sell That Flip? Not So Fast, Big Guy…
October 2, 2010
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Flipping a home…how to successfully sell your home to the FHA buyer.
Read moreMinneapolis & Saint Paul Housing Show Signs of Improvement
September 24, 2010
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With all the bad news coming in from Wall Street and repetitive dreary national news, it’s been easy to miss the housing recovery in Minneapolis and Saint Paul.
Read moreHome Values…You Got It, Your Home Is NOT Worth What You Thought.
September 20, 2010
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I’m certainly not an appraiser or an expert on home values, but being in the biz as long as I have, I do have a fairly good understanding of appraised home values and the ever restrictive lending requirements behind it. For many who have had an appraisal done in the past year or so, may be able [...]
Read moreFHA Mortgage Insurance and Seller Concession Changes – Ramifications
September 2, 2010
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HUD has regrettably increased the annual mortgage insurance premium and soon will have succeeded in reducing the allowable seller concessions. It’s easy to know that this will have a big impact but it will actually change the lending landscape.
Read moreBuying a Home after a Short Sale – Don’t Believe the Naysayers
May 30, 2010
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I’ve written on this subject before but I want to be more thorough this time. There have been too many articles put out lately that discourage people from contemplating a home purchase after doing a short sale. These articles express cynicism about home sellers’ financial habits and Realtors alike. Most Realtors doing short sales know [...]
Read morePeak House Prices Will Return to Sand States after 2025: Fiserv
April 13, 2010
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Peak House Prices Will Return to Sand States after 2025: Fiserv.
Read moreUpside Down on Your Home? – Here’s Your Playbook
April 4, 2010
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In my home state of Minnesota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul have nearly 39 percent of homeowners under water. I’ve had the question, “I’m upside down on my home, what are my options?” so many times that I wanted to prepare a menu of options for people to reference. This article briefly outlines 9 potential solutions [...]
Read moreThe Right Time to Buy
October 21, 2009
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As a realtor, the question I am asked more often than any other is: “How is the market?” Without the benefit of hindsight, this is always a difficult question. There are, however, certain factors that always come to mind when answering this question. They include, past market trends, home affordability, market activity, current interest rates, [...]
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- Using a VA Insured Mortgage to Purchase a Home After a Short Sale
- Say Goodbye to the Lowest Mortgage Rates in History
- How to Choose and Calculate Your PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
- Understanding Agency (Who Represents Whom in a Real Estate Transaction) it’s Important, Overlooked and Misunderstood
- Purchase a HUD owned Home with the $100.00 Down Payment Incentive Program
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- Buying a Home after a Short Sale – Don’t Believe the Naysayers
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Zillow, Trulia and Yahoo Real Estate to Find Homes for Sale
- FHA Mortgages: Enough Already!
- Minnesota Home Prices Headed for a Double Dip? – Don’t Believe the Hype
- Minneapolis & Saint Paul Housing Show Signs of Improvement
- Does Your Loan Officer Wear Lime Green Polka Dotted Underwear?
- Monthly Private Mortgage Insurance – It Doesn’t Make Any Sense. . .
- Wanna Be a Good Mortgage Applicant? . . Then it’s Time to Get Naked!
- Fannie Mae Guideline Changes – Gifts, 97% Financing and Mortgage Insurance
- First Time Home Buyers, Now that You’ve Opened “The Box”
- Using a VA Insured Mortgage to Purchase a Home After a Short Sale
- Say Goodbye to the Lowest Mortgage Rates in History
- How to Choose and Calculate Your PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
- Understanding Agency (Who Represents Whom in a Real Estate Transaction) it’s Important, Overlooked and Misunderstood
- Purchase a HUD owned Home with the $100.00 Down Payment Incentive Program
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- Using a VA Insured Mortgage to Purchase a Home After a Short Sale
- Say Goodbye to the Lowest Mortgage Rates in History
- How to Choose and Calculate Your PMI (Private Mortgage Insurance)
- Friends Don’t Let Friends Use Zillow, Trulia and Yahoo Real Estate to Find Homes for Sale
- FHA Seller Paid Closing Costs Reduction Announced
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- Understanding Agency (Who Represents Whom in a Real Estate Transaction) it’s Important, Overlooked and Misunderstood
- Purchase a HUD owned Home with the $100.00 Down Payment Incentive Program
- First Time Home Buyers, Now that You’ve Opened “The Box”
- Anyone you know struggling with mortgage payments due to unemployment?
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