Lee Walsh's Mortgage Blog

Are you on the fence trying to decide if now is the time for you to buy property or refinance an existing property? Does all of the bad press about housing and finance have you concerned that the timing is bad?It seems that if you poke you head up at all you are bombarded with news stories and op...

The Home Valuation Code of Conduct – will not help!It has missed the mark. The N.Y. Attorney General made Fannie and Freddie roll over and agree to sweeping changes in the way mortgage appraisals are ordered. The agreement completely isolates the appraiser form the real estate agent and the mort...

You just receive an e-Card from a friend - !Virus alert! (Part 2 – the solution)   In Part 1 of this post I discussed the E-Card virus, which is really a catchall name for a number of Trojan type viruses that attack your PC. So what applications can help you when you have those pesky little thin...

You just receive an e-Card from a friend - !Virus alert! (Part 1) In our business we often receive thank you notes from clients, vendors and business associates. So receiving an e-mail announcing that you have an E-Card message is not unusual. It’s not unusual, but it could be dangerous to open....

If your like me the answer is way to many! I read a post on John Ford's Blog where John brought up the problem of having to many sites with login and password access. It's a problem that can have you turning green.  I mentioned to John about the application I use to combat this growing irritation...

Mortgage insurance giant MGIC issued their 4th quarter and 2007 figures this month. Included was a $1.67 billion (with a B) loss. Many people only read the headlines on stories like this, then they would rather shoot their PC than read more doom and gloom. I  fought the urge and read the news any...

In the post SEO part 1, I reviewed the difficulty in being located in a relevant organic (non-paying)  search for your service on search engines like Google and Yahoo. As an example for the term “florida mortgage”  Google has 5,560,000 listings.   In SEO part 2, I showed how the title with meta ...

Are you a del.icio.us member? Have you tagged Active Rain? Here is the BIG question how do you have Active Rain tagged? If you look AR up on del.icio.us you will find a lot of different listings. Take a look at your tagged sites.  What is the count at the end of the listing for: “saved by xxx ot...

Most people find a real estate agent, find the home, and make an offer, then scramble to find a mortgage loan. Let me give you a few reasons why I think you should consider taking care of the mortgage first. A large portion of contract extensions are written because the financing is not finalize...

No I don't mean 2007 compared to 2006, 2005 or 2004. But was it really so bad? About a month ago I saw a statistic that said we are near 1995 real estate sales levels. That seems dismal to many. This is especially true if you have only been in the business for 3-6 years. I relocated to Orlando i...