Catherine 's Blog

The portfolio of products that these companies offered were CRAZY in the industry! Lehman or their mortgage company Aurora Loan Services were the first ones to come out with the 100% interest only, ARM, stated, investment loan! 100% investment loans are crazy but pushing it through as a stated is...

When it comes down to a deal closing and getting paid if you had to break the rules to get a deal done would you? I personally think that turning a blind eye or playing stupid in real estate won't get you out of court but there are so many that do. I recently overheard a conversation where the ag...

Can you believe that is what I tell every single one of my clients, be it a first time home buyer or someone down sizing? Guess what? They are listening!!! Instead of shopping me they are educating themselves by doing extra homework (that I give them) and making sure they are prepared at closing....

Can you believe that is what I tell every single one of my clients, be it a first time home buyer or someone down sizing? Guess what? They are listening!!! Instead of shopping me they are educating themselves by doing extra homework (that I give them) and making sure they are prepared at closing....

I'm more than a FULL TIME Loan Officer, I say more than full time because with all the changes, file issues, bank owned issues and the continued excellent service that I provide...it keeps me very busy. I came across an Agent who is also a Loan Officer, he called me on a pre-qual letter that I wr...

An agent and I were thinking of starting to Farm an area. As we were talking I started thinking with all the work and money is this going to work. We are going to try to take a different approach then the usual mailer. So I have a few questions..... For those that farm are you seeing results? If ...

Okay, I'm shocked....I just priced out a 20% down Conventional with a 647 credit score, I just knew Conventional would beat FHA. NOPE, even with mortgage insurance FHA beat out Conventional. I'm not sure how I feel about this. I can remember when 647 was a good score, there are pricing hits even ...

I work with some really great agents and I recently was helping them with some buyers that were here for one week. In this one week the agents stopped everything they were doing, they must have showed them 10-15 homes a day. The buyers were determined about living in a particular neighborhood, pa...

I have taught several classes to Real Estate Agents, mainly covering new updates with FHA. I recently asked a Real Estate Appraiser to join me and answer questions of what he considers when appraising homes. This has been a successful class with a lot of people attending, each class the same ques...

So I was in a marketing training class yesterday and the lady spoke about rewarding your referral contacts. "Are you really thanking your referral contacts" she asked....in my head I was thinking that she speaks to Real Estate professionals all the time so she is just talking about picking up the...