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What Mortgage Market Niche Are You In?
October 19, 2002 "I recently found what appeared to be the best deal on a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage from ads in the newspaper, but when I told the loan officer exactly what I needed, the price rose and the amount I could ... more...

Questions About the Failure of Mortgage Locks
December 15, 2003  ?Why have lock failures increased recently? A lock failure occurs when a lender does not honor a mortgage price that a borrower had believed was guaranteed. Lock failures occur when interest rates are rising and honoring locks is costly to lenders. ... more...

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Shared Appreciation Mortgage, SAMt
Shared Appreciation Mortgage, SAM A mortgage in which a borrower receives a below-market interest rate in return for which the lender (or another investor such as a family member or other partner) receives a portion of the future appreciation in the value of the property. May also ... more...

Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (FHLMC) also called "Freddie Mac" - a quasi-governmental, federally sponsored organization that acts as a secondary market investor to buy and sell mortgage loans. FHLMC sets many of the guidelines for conventional ... more...

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SIPPS - Need to Know More?
What is SIPPS? What is A-Day? How could it affect you? Do you have investment property or want to invest in property? These are all questions, that you will want to find answers to.Referred to as A-Day, April 6th 2006 will be an historical date for pensions in the UK and will mark the beginning ... more...

Best Buy to Let Mortgages
Are you looking for the best buy to let mortgages with the lowest rates payable? Need to calculate repayments on-line? Not sure how much you can borrow? These are all questions that you may well be asking yourself if you are looking for the best buy to let mortgages.Finding the right buy to let ... more...

A Bad Real Estate Market is Good for Real Estate Investors and the Country!
The real estate industry in this country is in for a rude awakening!The realtors, mortgage brokers, investors (really speculators) and Alan Greenspan are whistling past the grave yard, living on borrowed time.Few people realize how bad the real estate market can become. I remember in the late 70s ... more...

Investment Real Estate -- A New Twist: Be the Bank, Not the Landlord, and Get Rich Without the Work!
I was a landlord for a decade, and I believe I probably lost a year of life for each year I tried to maintain 26 properties. I learned the hard way that the most efficient way to make money in investment real estate is to create a mortgage note and be the bank not the landlord.In other words, you ... more...

What Every Real Estate Investor Should Know About Investment Property Loans
Savvy real estate investors know that there is an art to getting an investment property loan. Educating yourself on the process will eliminate much of the headache and hassles that often plague real estate investors.If you go into it expecting the same ease as financing a primary residence, you may ... more...

Real Estate Investing in Rentals the "$10 Million Real Estate Investing Mistake"
Renting to tenants is no longer where the money is for real estate investing. I became a multi-millionaire landlord in the 1980s by buying $10 million in rental houses. Yet, I consider this real estate investing approach the biggest mistake in my real estate investing career. I call it my $10 ... more...

How I Became a Real Estate Investor
Recently I closed on the sale of two homes. They were located about a mile apart and had comparable market values. However, beyond these two similarities, the two deals were very different from each other. Let me discuss in more detail the similarities and differences of the two deals.My business ... more...

Margin Benefits are Marginal at Best
Margin is one of those things that novices find puzzling about the stock market, but the concept is really quite simple. Still, with understanding the basics of using margin accounts, determining the wisdom of using margin can be quite a conundrum.A margin account is a traditional investment ... more...

Stop Losing Thousands of Dollars Every Day: Six Tips For Creating Wealth
We all go to school for about twelve years, kindergarten through high school. Some of us go to college and then graduate school. Personally, I went to school for three years beyond college with law school and took financial courses after that was over. In all of that time, economics courses, ... more...

A Crash Course On The Payout Options Available To You When Selling A Mortgage Note
Okay, let's take a look at the typical payout options:Full Purchase - The investor buys the entire note. This alleviates the seller of the responsibility to collect payments in the future.Straight Partial - The investor purchases a predetermined number of payments in order to meet the seller's cash ... more...

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