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2011
The McCue Mortgage Company this week began to participate in the new Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA) FHA 203K Loan Program. FHA 203K Loans have been around for a long time, but it now has a little added twist through the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA), and McCue Mortga...
06/30/2011
Today I said my final goodbye to a good friend and fellow worker. Phil Turner past away this past Sunday at noon time, after battling cancer for 15 months. It was 15 months of receiving good news, only to be quickly followed by bad news. During those 15 months Phil would be told that it appear...
06/28/2011
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Today MReport reported that banks are seeing an increase in in-house regulators. These regulators are not hired by the bank but by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Read more about it at "Big Banks Seeing More Regulators in House" I have not...
06/21/2011
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Today I will be spending the day at my house with my wife, two sons, and my daughter in-law. For me these are the special time, when I can spend a day with the family. I hope that the rest of the fathers get to spend their day in their own special day. Enjoy it, and appreciate the blessings...
06/19/2011
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If you watch the news on a daily bases, one of the things that is often reported is Personal Spending and Personal Income. These reports are supposed to provide a better insight into the health of our economy. But what most people do not realize is that Personal Spending and Personal Income als...
06/17/2011
Back on the 5th of this month I wrote a blog announcing the "Middlesex County Chamber Of Commerce Business After Work held yesterday at the Courtyard Marriott in Cromwell, Connecticut. The Middlesex County Chamber holds many of these Business After Work events throughout the year, but none of th...
06/14/2011
I wrote a blog on Tuesday about an e-mail I sent to Vice President, of Government Affairs, for the CT Association of Realtors, Tim Calnen. asking him the following question: "Could you tell me on how I can find out how Connecticut Congressmen voted on the proposed Bill requiring a 20% down paymen...
06/10/2011
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OK this is not funny, this is the third time that I have tried to write a blog this evening, and the power keeps going off every time I am about to post it. This is my final try. We have been fortunate here in Middletown where live. Over the last week and a half most of the town around us as ha...
06/09/2011
I subscribe to MReport.com and today they reported on a survey conducted by Lake Research Partners and Public Opinion Strategies, that I found the results very interesting. Despite everything that we hear about the housing market, this survey showed that an overwhelming number of Americans still...
06/08/2011
Last Friday Lenn Harley wrote a blog "FIGHTING THE GOOD FIGHT WITH THE VIRGINIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS!" in which she provided a link about how the Virgina Congressmen were in opposition to a new proposal to require a 20% on Mortgage Loans. I comented on Lenn's blog and she suggested that I che...
06/07/2011