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Are you buying, selling, or just curious about the real estate market? Check out my weekly market report on the local housing market. Don't make the mistake of not understanding market conditions when buying or selling a home. Take a look and the report for the current market and start understand...

Are you buying, selling, or just curious about the real estate market? Check out my weekly market report on the local housing market. Don't make the mistake of not understanding market conditions when buying or selling a home. Take a look and the report for the current market and start understand...

Are you buying, selling, or just curious about the real estate market? Check out my weekly market report on the local housing market. Don't make the mistake of not understanding market conditions when buying or selling a home. Take a look and the report for the current market and start understand...

Are you buying, selling, or just curious about the real estate market? Check out my weekly market report on the local housing market. Don't make the mistake of not understanding market conditions when buying or selling a home. Take a look and the report for the current market and start understand...

Are you buying, selling, or just curious about the real estate market? Check out my weekly market report on the local housing market. Don't make the mistake of not understanding market conditions when buying or selling a home. Take a look and the report for the current market and start understand...

I wanted to write in my blog today about people refinancing.  Refinancing can save you a lot of money.  But a lot of people like to go from a 30 year to a 15 year to a 10 year.  Would I keep refinacing just to have the term lowered?  Probably not.  Here's how I paid my  mortgage off and got away ...

With the rush in refinancing taking place this month, banks aren't able to close the loan in 15 days and allow you to get a lower interest rate.  Right now, you would be lucky to get a loan done in under 30 days.  Why the delay?  Well there's a lot of people rushing to refi their property because...

ARMS are adjustable rate mortages.  People usually use arms because they are usually cheaper ..ie a better interest rate than the fix mortgages.  The A in Arm stands for adjustable which means they they will change after a given period of time.  Does that make the arms a bad product?  Not necessa...

A lot of people think that a lower rate by the Federal Reserve means lower interest rates for the 30 year fixed mortages and other loan products.  That isn't always the case because bond rates drive the fixed mortgage rates. People usually try to lower their interest rate if the rate goes down by...

I'm sure everyone has heard about the scandals in Illinois.  Anyway, someone sent me this funny pic and I wanted to show.  This doesn't mean that we also have corrupt real estate agents.  Well, then again, I've met a few so I guess I shouldn't speak too fast.  Hope you get a kick out of this one!