Sometimes it feels like our leaders pay more attention to how legislation will play in the media than how it will play in real life. If I understand it correctly, the mortgage rescue bill that passed in the House has a couple of provisions that I find a little disturbing.
First, in order to qualify for an FHA refinance […]

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If you have ever seen a reverse mortgage quote, you know that it looks quite different than traditional loan quotes.  In case you haven’t, you can see a sample reverse mortgage quote as you read the explanation.
As an aside, don’t confuse the results produced by an online reverse mortgage calculator with an actual quote for a reverse […]

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I was recently asked by a Loan Officer, “Why do some credit reports contain information from accounts that belong to a completely different individual? And why is that information different than what the client sees when they order their own credit report?”
For some of you, this might be common knowledge, however, there seems to be […]

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This time, I am in Washington, DC, another appropriate place for this week’s update (no, I don’t plan this ahead of time).  With the government’s own actions being one of the chief causes for mortgage rates climbing, we can expect more of the same on the way.
Inflation is the bigger fear these days and that […]

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“Hello Lenderama readers.” Thanks for the warm welcome, Todd!  My name is Matthew Bowe and most of you probably don’t have a clue as to who I am, so, let me give you a little background on who I am and what I’ve done, and then I’d like to start a conversation.  This conversation […]

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We discuss the ways Jott has made our lives and businesses SO MUCH BETTER, Molly has a major crush on Evernote, we give a shout out to some Twitter buds, and answer some user questions!

 

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I started blogging three and a half years ago. At the time, Alex Stenback had a great retail mortgage blog, and Dan Green was quickly getting under way. There were a few others, but for the most part, Mortgage Blogging was a pretty lonely forest. From the B2B side of things, nobody was doing a […]

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