Planning to Buy Your First Home Someone asked me the other day when people should start planning for buying their first home. I replied that 8th grade would not be too early for a class in home ownership – I was only sort of joking. When you go to buy your first home, you’ll find...
Don’t overlook this when calculating mortgage refinance savings
by Aaron Crowe Determining if refinancing a mortgage is right for you is relatively easy. If you’re going to stay in your home for awhile and can get a mortgage rate lower than your existing rate that drops your monthly payment, then it’s probably worth doing. One of the many online mortgage calculators will quickly...
How to Avoid Mortgage Fraud – Casey Fleming on Realtor.com
I got another nice by-line in an article today, and this one was quite well-written, and in Realtor.com, which is a very relevant site. Not only that, it was on one of my favorite topics – mortgage fraud. It’s worth reading, especially if you’re considering mortgage fraud. Read it here. Here is an excerpt from...
318-How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage: Advice from Casey Fleming, Author of “The Loan Guide”
318-How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage: Advice from Casey Fleming, Author of “The Loan Guide” For most people, housing decisions are the largest financial decisions that they will make. And the mortgages usually associated with housing are the largest debts most of us will take on. And yet how much time and energy do...
Long Term Interest Rate View – Opposing Views
Where will interest rates be in 2017? (This graphic does not appear to correlate closely with the actual projections.) I write about interest rates a lot, because folks seem to want to know. In my experience, it’s not hard to be right most of the time when projecting out, say, 24 hours or so. Beyond...
The Loan Guide: How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage. Book available on Amazon
About the Author Casey Fleming began his career in the mortgage industry in 1979 as an appraiser. He founded and built one of the largest appraisal firms in the San Francisco Bay Area, earned the highest appraiser designation in California, and testified as an expert witness in court. In 1995 he began his transition to...