Phew – I am sure glad the last blog-post subject line had a question mark in it! Guess what disappeared… the mortgagee letter that was on HUDs website about this ability to “use the $8000 First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit” – yeah… its gone! As of today you can not use the tax credit [...]

Is Zero-down back for Lake Mary’s First Time Home Buyers?  Could be.  This is the next best news to working with Florida’s #1 FHA Mortgage Broker.  This info was released right at the close of business yesterday – getting it to you ASAP! Hot off the press! 4:47 PM ET -  Shaun Donovan, secretary of [...]

Can I Do My Own Orlando Loan Modification? The short answer is yes; you can do your own Orlando loan modification. If you are an avid do-it-yourselfer [DIY], and are willing to dedicate the time, energy, and effort, you can do your own loan modification. One thing to understand upfront, though, is simply because you [...]

Longwood real estate and mortgage rate shoppers – beware.  When it comes to low mortgage rates, you can’t always believe what you read in the papers, get in your mailbox [as you go through your mail standing over the garbage can] or hear on TV. Or, for that matter, what you see in official looking [...]

FHA Loans + $7500 Tax Credit + High Inventory = Orlando Real Estate Deals Phew – Made it through the holidays, and day-to-day life is setting back in. I love Christmas, for me it helps pull everything back into perspective for an approaching New Year. So now that the lights are back in the boxes [...]

Okay, so the subject line is long – but, believe it or not I cut it short. It could have been, “First Time Home Buyers can couple $8000 Tax Credit and Low Interest Rates and high inventories to buy Longwood Real Estate” We are seeing an unbelievable ‘perfect storm’ for buyers! Beware though – when [...]

Well Good News for Lake Mary mortgage rates! The Federal Open Market Committee [maybe we will just call them the FED] voted to cut the Fed Funds Rate by at least three-quarters percent Tuesday. The benchmark rate now rests in a range of 0.000-0.250%… and no, that doesn’t mean your mortgage will be at 0%. [...]

Finding the best Longwood mortgage interest rates can be tricky business… locking them in before the market swings makes it even more so! Each Wed., the Mortgage Bankers Association [MBA] releases its Weekly Applications Survey which gives a detailed look at the new mortgage applications done over the last seven days. A recent interest rate [...]

If the presence of inflation causes mortgage rates to rise, then the absence of inflation should cause mortgage rates to fall. And, in most markets that’s true. Today, it’s not. Despite a deep, month-over-month dip in consumer prices not seen since 1947, Altamonte Springs mortgage rates not steady by any stretch of the imagination…  they [...]

So you wanna deal on Longwood Real Estate. I completely understand… I do to, in fact with the gloom they are painting for retail this Christmas [and Yes, iI am one of the ones still willing to CALL it Christmas] I have thought about scooping up a deal on one of those super-duper flat-screens… but [...]