Fort Lauderdale Blog

How US default can impact YOU?

5 Factors That Decide Your Credit Score

Credit scores range between 200 and 800, with scores above 620 considered desirable for obtaining a mortgage. The following factors affect your score:

Future of 30-Year Mortgages at Risk?

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Future of 30-Year Mortgages at Risk?.

Mortgage Interest Deduction Must Not be Targeted for Change

This is not the time to tamper with one of the very few incentives left at the time, which still makes home ownership a solid investment for the long run, and a tax shelter as an immediate incentive.

 

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Second Liens Roadblock for Short Sales

What is wrong with this picture:

In one corner, the distressed homeowner who is just prolonging the inevitable with no real benefits but false hopes.

How to stop foreclosure

Freddie says mortgage rates finally rise | Credit.com

Freddie says mortgage rates finally rise | Credit.com.

New Rules of the Road for Getting a Mortgage

New Rules of the Road for Getting a Mortgage.

Low Rates Likely Through 2010

REALTOR® Magazine-Daily News-Fed: Low Rates Likely Through 2010. This is all good. Keep them where they are so that we can continue to unload inventory.

FHA Changes Alert: Anti-Flipping Rule Relaxed

Beginning Feb. 1, the Federal Housing Administration will provide mortgage insurance for some purchases in which the seller bought the property and held it for fewer than 90 days.