by Justin McHood
on November 19, 2012
News flash (and it is really a news flash): the federal government is stepping into the 21st Century but not until after the first of the year. Hey, it’s a start. As mortgage loan and loan modification applications are reviewed by lenders, one vexing bit of paperwork has always been the IRS form 4506-T. This [...]
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by Justin McHood
on November 12, 2012
If you’re in the process of modifying your home loan and your lender has said that your debt ratios are too high, can you get someone to co-sign with you to help bring those debt ratios in line? Part of the loan modification review is determining how to get your debt to income ratio within [...]
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by Justin McHood
on November 2, 2012
Mortgage rate myths seem to come and go. Rates are higher if there’s a Democrat elected. Rates are higher if the American League wins the World Series, and so on. Will there be a mortgage rate reaction this next Wednesday morning? An article in today’s Wall Street Journal provided a punch list of what business [...]
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by Justin McHood
on October 2, 2012
Did your mortgage company make you mad? Did your loan officer make all sorts of promises and didn’t keep one of them? Thinking about changing mortgage lenders midstream before your escrow closes? Such a switch is, to put it mildly, cumbersome. It’s not a situation where you can transfer your loan application and all the [...]
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by Justin McHood
on September 27, 2012
Recent ads on TV, radio and online promote a particular mortgage lender that offers to create a special mortgage with a payoff period designed specifically for you. That’s actually a good thing. Most consumers think there are two mortgage terms, a 30 year mortgage and a 15 year mortgage. Yet in reality most any term [...]
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