New Administration New Opportunities!
New Administration could bring new opportunities! A new administration could bring new opportunities for borrowers! Long term mortgage interest rates have been stuck on the higher side of where any of us in the business expected them to be ever since the Fed cut short term rates! This hasn’t made sense, but since long term…
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Put your mortgage in Reverse! Put your mortgage in reverse if you are 62 or older and you can forget about mortgage payments for as long as you live in your home! The caveats being: 1) you continue to pay your homeowners insurance, your property taxes and (if you live in a community with a…
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Spooky Rates! Spooky rates…that is, spooky mortgage rates, remain frustratingly high ever since the Fed lowered short term rates by 1/2 point! In trying to figure out why, it appears, at least to me, that large bond investors are fearful of making big decisions and scared to commit to a plan until after the coming…
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Stocks or Bonds battle could be good news for you! The current winner of the stocks or bonds investment strategy goes to ——- Stocks! Know how to tell? Long term mortgage rates have gone up, not down, ever since the Fed lowered the borrowing rate by 1/2 point! If the situation was reversed, the bond yield would be…
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If Fed drops rate and mortgage rates don’t drop…did it happen? In a rates update from last week, I promised to keep you abreast on when the mortgage rates dropped as well. This is that update…nothing has changed and if there’s been any movement at all, it has been slightly up, meaning you are paying…
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Rate Drop Could Be Good News For You! There was rate movement finally and the Fed just dropped by .50%! Although it could affect long term rates immediately, so far we have only seen lenders sending out emails, such as this blog entry, stating the same headline! We will see, probably later today or sometime…
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Let’s get a Backup Your Income Plan! Backup your income? With a Reverse Mortgage? You bet! The caveat is you must be 62 or older, but for those that are, and have a lot of equity in their home, this kind of financing might just be what you are looking for to supplement your income…
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The Here and Now, is Here! The rate is the rate is the rate! Let’s face it. To most people the future would be nice to think about, but the reality is, you still have to deal with the Here and Now! Take mortgage interest rates for instance…Please! (a salute to Henny Youngman) If you…
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Could this rate drop be a trend? Fed under pressure now after “no action” in last meeting! With the most recent rate drop, I went from quoting most conforming loans for purchase and refinance at just below 7% for a 30 year fixed at no points, to just above 6%! Lower than that for FHA…
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Any effect on Markets in the Aftermath? The Aftermath of the assassination attempt on Former President Trump, as expected, has caused a plethora of emotions affecting both public and business responses. Before we go any further, just so you know, the Mitchell Mortgage response is, let’s all please lower the temperature on “did not, did…
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