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Refinance Now or Later?

If your mortgage is coming due in the next 1-2 years: should you refinance to lock in a new rate now?  The real question is; does the upfront cost warrant security in a rising interest rate economy?  The upfront cost of refinancing is really the penalty.  The...

“Why do I need an appraisal?”

A question asked over and over.  The simple answer is that the lender wants to make sure they will be able to sell the secured property in a reasonable amount of time and recoup the hundreds of thousands that they have lent, if the borrowers do not make their...

The Rate Game

So why is it that mortgage broker’s cringe when they are asked…”What’s your rate?”Things have changed greatly in the mortgage industry, especially over the last year.  These days, we need to know all the details of an application before we can even give a range of...