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First Time Home Buying: A Chronicle of Stress
This is a guest post from my sister JP. She was kind enough to help me out by sending an article for while I am in the hospital. In fact when you read this I will have a new baby, I hope anyway. When my husband and I found out we were pregnant with ...
Pay Your Mortgage Off Early
Once you have paid off your consumer debt, built up your emergency fund, and started saving for retirement you might be thinking about the best way to tackle that last major hurdle, your mortgage. Mortgages have become what most people see as a neces...
Suburban Genie: My Three Financial Do-Overs
All of the credit for this post should go to Adam over at Your Money Relationship for coming up with this Money Genie post idea. Basically the idea boils down to what three things about your financial past would you change given the chance. While I...
What to Expect When Closing Your Loan
You found a broker, chose to get a fixed rate mortgage, and locked in a killer interest rate, what happens now? Your broker is going to set you up with a Title company who is going to close your loan. What is a Title Company A Title company is respon...
PAR Rates, Mortgage Points, and PMI
This is the third installment of Mortgage Week here at Suburban Dollar. Now that you have found a good broker and decided to get a fixed rate mortgage, you did decide on a fixed rate right, we are going to talk about how your rate is determined, what...
Fixed Vs ARM Rate Mortgages
Welcome to the second installment of mortgage week, inspired by my recent refinance. If you missed yesterday’s post be sure to check it out to learn about Mortgage Brokers and how they get paid. Today we are going to look at the two main types of m...
What is a Mortgage Broker
As I mentioned in my Net Worth Update yesterday, I am going to cover mortgages this week at Suburban Dollar. Today is a post dedicated to those people who make their living selling mortgages, the Mortgage Brokers. They aren’t your bank, or any bank...
The Foreclosure Across the Street
The house across the street from me has been empty now for almost five months. The owner was the victim of both divorce and medical problems within a very short period of time. Unable to maintain the payments on the home he decided to let it go. ...
Refinancing Now Could Save You Thousands
When I purchased my home three years ago I thought I was getting a steal at 5.875% APR, why would you ever want to refinance a loan like that I told myself. Times have changed and rates have reached the lowest either I or my Mortgage Broker have ev...
April ‘09 Update
Ahhh here we are again. Here is my monthly net worth update. It has been a better month with all of my Assets increasing accept the house, and all my debt decreasing. My wife got a bonus so we paid off the furniture, I will have the other $576 gone b...
