Loan Officer Training: How to Use Open Houses to Meet Agents
If youre searching for a proven method that leads to fast results, than this article is for you. Many times I come across loan officers who are either new in the industry and need to earn immediate income or who joined during the height of the refinance boom and now needs to build purchase business ... more...

A Mortgage and Bank Trick You Should Avoid at All Costs
Once youve purchased your home, you will begin to get correspondence from your lender about a Mortgage Reduction Program, in which you can cut years off your mortgage, without adding money to your payment. This is another trick bankers have to get you to give them your payment sooner, so they can ... more...

Are We Breeding Bad Credit Teenagers?
It wasn't until about the fourth time that I gave my teenager an allowance advance that I realized I was nurturing her to become a bad credit consumer. Living free at home with no bills to pay, how would she balance a budget when she moved out on her own? Would she continue to borrow money in ... more...

Organize Your Move With A Moving Checklist
Moving is a chaotic and stressful time. Theres so many things to arrange, having utilities switched, signing up the kids for a new school, scheduling the movers, packing the house. With all the other things you do its not easy to find the time to get everything done!Using a checklist of tasks, ... more...

Your Own Home-Based Business: It's All in the Family
Balancing work life with family sure can be challenging in this day and age. Most of us are working harder and longer just trying to keep up with the bills and the overall cost of living. The cost of everything keeps going up: food, utilities, gasoline, insurance, and day care, just to name a few ... more...

Is It Time To Buy A House?
At some point as you're writing out your rent check, you get to the point where you look at the amount and think to yourself - at this rate, I could BUY a house. If you're fed up with paying rent every month that's high enough to finance a mortgage, it may be time to take a serious look at what it ... more...

Whats The Mortgage Rate?
A mortgage rate is the amount of interest that you will pay for your home purchase. If you are in the market for purchasing a home, then you know that there are many deals to be had. There are many various companies offering low cost financing and low rates. But, what are they really offering and ... more...

Understanding Credit Card Debt Consolidation Loans
If borrowers are asked to vote for the most striking feature of credit cards that appeals them, then increased spending power ought to bag the largest number of votes. In fact this is a feature that distinguishes credit cards from cash, cheque, and the newly launched debit cards. Credit cards allow ... more...

Building Your Dream Home - Part 1
For most of my adult life I had thought about someday building my Dream Home. Several years ago I finally got the chance. I had purchased a lake front lot with a small cottage on it. My initial intention was to use the property as is, and someday raze the old cottage and build a new home in its ... more...