If you plan to use Orlando’s First-Time Home Buyer Tax Credit program, time is running out.  The program expires November 30, 2009 and closing on a home can take 45 – 60 days. That leaves you less than 100 days from today to find a home and go under contract. The $8000 First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credit [...]

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 [...]

As an Orlando Mortgage Broker in Seminole County, I have had the experience of working with many insurance carriers -some good – some bad. As the largest private property insurer makes the move to pull out of Florida, home owners are wondering – what do we do now? I personally have been using State Farm [...]

NEWS FLASH: THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA is not your friend. Okay, maybe the subject of this Orlando Mortgage Blog Post is a little extreme, but it does prove my point. Sensational sells. Unfortunately, truth doesn’t always carry the same punch if it is not. Despite turmoil on Wall Street, despite the drum beat of doom from [...]

As a concerned citizen myself, I try to hunt around the internet to find things that influence our lives here in central Florida. [Besides just Gator Football that is.] As most of you know, we have an election coming up in November, and while this is not a political post, it is important to know [...]