Dow Lost 365 Points - Should I Care?

Dow Jones lost 635 points in today's trading . Should you care as a  Realtor , as a consumer or as a person who sells mortgages?  I wish the answer was simple. Everybody kept on saying if our ratings get downgraded , our short term rates would go up and borrowing costs for everybody would go  hig ...
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Someone's Buying Your Name...and You Don't Even Know It!

Your name is actually worth quite a bit. The only problem is that you aren't the one benefiting from it. Very few people realize that each time their credit is checked, the information provided to the credit bureaus (Equifax, TransUnion, Innovis) immediately becomes a commodity that is sold no ...
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How Do I Know What To Offer For The Home I Love?

So How do you know what is the right amount that you need to pay for the house you would like to buy? You would think with the glut of homes on the market and the media screaming nonstop that the home prices are going down, down and down so much more that it would be easier to buy ...
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Case Schiller Says Home Prices Are Down And CoreLogic Says Home Prices Are Up!

According to Case-Schiller Home Price Index, Home Price Index Has Hit New Low CoreLogic Home Price Index shows First Month-Over-Month Increase since Mid-2011 Please somebody help me! Do I buy/sell a home now or wait for prices to do down f ...
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You Don't Need To Be A U.S. Citizen To Buy A Home

No, you don't need to be a U.S. Citizen to buy a home. Lots of non-citizens and permanent resident aliens and some non-permanent residents buy homes, with FHA,VA,USDA mortgages as well as conventional mortgages. What people get confused with is that if you are a foreigner and just have a Vi ...
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How to get the Lowest Mortgage Rates Today

How to get the Lowest Mortgage Rates Today When borrowers start shopping for interest rates, they seem to ignore a very important part of the interest rate equation: The Total Cost of Mortgage.  With the onslaught of online lenders and all their competition, most interest rates from different le ...
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