Archive for October, 2006

Commercial Loans: Prepare Early, Success Strategy Part 3!

Mortgage Preparedness Training, Step 4The fourth thing that I discuss with my borrower clients is their entity paperwork. We’re in the “borrower paperwork home stretch,” to mangle a metaphor. First, why would an owner have a separate entity to own some real estate, with its added bookkeeping hassle and, what do we need [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

There are several pieces of important economic data being released this week that should make it an interesting one for the mortgage market. There are seven reports due to be posted over the five days, with at least one of them scheduled for each day. Making it such an important week isn’t just the number [...]

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Comments From the Investment Property Insider

Congrats to the St. Louis Cardinals for a well-played World Series.  And what happened to my USC Trojans!!!  They really need to start playing the entire game and stop spotting their opponent the first half!  Bad strategy.We’re a week away from changing e-mail servers and you need to be ready.  As I mentioned last week, the [...]

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Commercial Loans: Prepare Early, Success Strategy Part 2!

Mortgage Preparedness Training, Step 3The third thing that I discuss with my borrower clients is their property paperwork. At this point I’ve got credit handled and the borrower’s income and liquid asset documentation all tied up neatly. Unfortunately, this area is often another place to stumble around blindly in the dark looking for [...]

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Mortgage Loan Market Commentary

There are five pieces of data scheduled for release this week that may affect mortgage rates along with another Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting. Only two of the five are considered to be of high importance to the markets, but one of those two is arguably the single most important report we see regularly. [...]

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