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So, if you're wondering what is happening at the highest levels in the mortgage servicing world, here it is! The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to align their guidelines for servicing delinquent mortgages they own or guarantee. According to the FHFA...
05/11/2011
The debate over how (and if) servicing compensation should be changed continues to rage on - quietly, that is. Our sources tell us that Fannie Mae appears to be the one driving this truck with Freddie Mac and Ginnie Mae sitting in the back seat, shouting, "Slow down." In short, Freddie and Ginnie...
05/07/2011
Strategy always gains from specificity. It's even more important to be specific when planning and conducting the implementation of the strategy. A key role of the strategic leader is to move from general assertions to specific expressions of intent and then on to the actual plan of implementation...
05/07/2011
By participating in two separate mortgage schemes, Stephen Kottage has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court of Connecticut to two counts of conspiracy relating to these fraud cases. According to court documents, Kottage conspired with others to commit wire fraud by making materially false statem...
05/07/2011
In default, losing your home to foreclosure and running low on cash? No worries! ......your friendly mortgage company may soon be offering you cold hard cash to move. We have been hearing from Harris Real Estate University students across the US that banks have become very aggressive with their c...
05/05/2011
So, if you're wondering what is happening at the highest levels in the mortgage servicing world, here it is! The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) has directed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to align their guidelines for servicing delinquent mortgages they own or guarantee. According to the FHFA...
05/05/2011
I get a lot of ezine topic requests each week, and the majority of them are requests for different questioning techniques to use during the qualification stage. I'm glad to see these requests because it means people understand the importance of identifying and then spending time with buyers.I've ...
05/04/2011
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This is the fourth article in my series on powerful listing presentations, where we'll be covering pricing, communication, technology, marketing, and home presentation & photography. Link to third article.This week I want to discuss powerful technology tools and the importance of these tools in y...
05/04/2011
Let's face it, selling a home is not easy. If it were easy there would be no need for the service that agents provide, right? We deserve to be paid well for closing a deal, so we might as well charge well to close it. Here are a few sales analogies that you can use to quote and get paid higher c...
05/04/2011
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Seems that not even Osama Bin Laden was immune to the temptations of building a McMansion during the housing boom. Bin Ladens 2005 bubble-era "Palace De Me" was...like most McMansions...the largest house in the neighborhood. From the NYTimes: It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains that ...
05/03/2011