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How to Increase Your Credit Score

Building your credit score is an important part of managing your financial health. A good credit score can help you get approved for loans and credit cards with better terms and lower interest rates. Here are some tips on how to build your credit score: Pay your bills on time: Payment history is the most+ […]

Acceleration Clauses In Mortgage Loans Are No Joke, So Pay Attention

So you’ve finally closed escrow, and the house is yours. All that paperwork at closing time was a pain, and after all those signatures and initials and all that moving, you can settle in for a long winter’s rest. But what about the small print on that mortgage paperwork? Realtor’s Audrey Ference says that, unbeknownst+ […]

Some Metro Areas Are Potentially On Track To Go For the Gusto In Sales And Prices In 2023

Another year, another brand new real estate market? Perhaps in some areas, according to Realtor.com’s housing forecast and economic overview. Dozens of markets across the country are poised to see a significant surge of potential homebuyers in 2023, according to the new report, with some metro areas expected to grow — both in home sales+ […]

Flexibility Is Sometimes The Key To Getting Your House To Sell

Downsizing. The very sound of the word conjures up fitting your entire life into an old VW Bug. Those who bought that large family home and just finished cleaning it, paying the mortgage payment on it, and spending a fortune on replacing the air conditioning system, however, might beg to differ when asked about moving+ […]

Is This The Oldest First-Time Homebuyer?

What age should you buy a home and is there an age when it is too late to buy a home? Well, the answer to that might be tricky as we discovered that this person, Edward Simon Jones, 86 could be the oldest first-time buyer ever. According to Mail Online News, Simon as he is+ […]

Mortgage Basics: How To Tap Into Your Home Equity

An undercurrent began brewing during the pandemic. While the “sheltering at home” movement quickly took hold, kids got schooled at home, parents dressed from the waist up to place themselves in front of their computer screens to stay employed, and people began taking good, hard looks at their homes. What works? What doesn’t? What could+ […]

Buying A Home For The Holidays May Still Be A Bridge Too Far For Many Homebuyers

Apart from the 2008 bubble/recession when millions of homes went into foreclosure, whether it was home prices, the economy, or interest rates, history has been more or less kind to homebuyers. Even then you could buy a foreclosed home for peanuts and bet on the future to change things up. The behemoths holding both homebuyers+ […]

Tips to Improve Communications and Collaboration Across Your Organization

How do you improve communications and collaboration across your organization? Communication is in fact one of the most important keys to success in any organization. The channel of communication between each department needs to be impeccable because they are responsible for their own piece of the process, especially in the mortgage industry. With the mortgage+ […]

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