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2011
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Nothing wrong with learning lessons, some of them just come at a tremendous cost...like $13.6 billion. The FHA's annual independent financial report spouts all sorts of happy statements like "it is stronger today than it was last year" and about how the "FHA's capital reserves held steady" and st...
01/20/2011
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As you can imagine, I monitor all sorts of financial charts, graphs, and stats as they relate to mortgage rates and the impact they will have on my clients. And sometimes you read new data that sends a Starbucks Mocha Grande size surge through your veins...that's when you see a big number on a li...
01/18/2011
I've been meaning to write about this great post by Holden Lewis of Bankrate.com because he serves up a tremendously appropriate analogy about today's mortgage financing system and how it's just not designed for stormy weather. I'm not an advocate of change for the sake of change, or having an it...
01/10/2011
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Lori Crawford is a well respected Florida Realtor with an extraordinary reputation. She specializes in Pinellas and Pasco counties. Since I believe in the "boots on the ground perspective" for a dose of reality in today's market place, I asked her to provide her state of the market assessment. Pl...
01/04/2011