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Housing Market in Orlando to Hit Bottom in 2009
The University of Central Florida’s Institute for Economice Competitiveness recently released their quarterly forecast which surprisingly reveals some promising facts about the housing market. They predict a bottom to the housing market in the ...
Surprise, Chinese Drywall Stinks
I got an email about Chinese drywall from my boss today and at first, I deleted it thinking the Chinese are making everything these days. It seems like everything I own from the cheap tools I got at Wal Mart to my Nike shoes seems to be coming out of...
How Do You Qualify for an FHA Loan?
A Guest Post by Betty Parker of Your Ultimate Finance Destination blog FHA loans or Federal Housing Administration loans are the simplest forms of mortgage loans for buying real properties. Among all mortgage loans, the eligibility criteria for an F...
Double Digit Interest Rates in the Next 2 Years?
I spent the past week in a real estate investing class in order to fulfill my post licensing education requirement for my broker’s license and learned quite a bit. There were real estate professionals specializing in numerous different fields a...
The Secret Welfare Program of the US Treasury
I’m gonna get a little boring and political today. I ran across this article in the Chicago Tribune by economics professor Casey Mulligan at the University of Chicago that made a light bulb go off in my head… the freakin US Treasury a...
Fed Cuts Fed Funds Rate 50 Basis Points to 1%
Wall Street Shadow Markets The Cause of Our Nation’s Financial Crisis
Watch CBS Videos Online With all the talk about the bailout plan being debated in Congress, I’ve heard all kinds of reasons why people think the market is failing. I’ve heard it’s because of Fannie Mae, shady mortgage lenders, stupi...
Government Bails Out Fannie and Freddie
I’m sure you’ve heard that the government is taking over Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. We all learned during the Great Depression of how much the stability of financial markets affects us all, so I can see why they decided to step in. I jus...
How Will the Real Estate Market Improve from Bush Signing the Housing Bill
Paul Bishop, economist for the National Association of Realtors, was recently interviewed by the Wall Street Journal about the impact of the housing bill just signed by President Bush and appeared pretty positive in the interview. He says the new bil...
Foreign National Loan Requirements
A Guest Post From The Florida Upfront Mortgage Broker With all the negative hoopla about the real estate industry lately, a segment that is still very active is the Foreign National portion. A Foreign National is someone who is not a U.S. Citizen and...
