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My goal is to share information about the mortgage market, my community and myself, as well as to provide timely information for buyer's, sellers and home owners in Maryland.

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2017 

Get More of What You Want In Your Business! What are you holding onto that is no longer serving you? What is the best way to get more of what you want in your business?  Check out this video for a quick tip for the answer!   What will you give up today to allow more good things to come into your ...
01/31/2017
Financially Naked- Documents Needed For A Mortgage What Documents Do I Need For A Mortgage Approval? To determine if you qualify for a loan lenders require a lot of documentation. The day of the "NO DOC" loan is gone. These days, most lenders require you to get what a client once called "financia...
01/30/2017
How To Handle Conflicts In Real Estate and In Life A collegue of mine shared this fantastic conflict resolution tool. Unfortunately I am not sure who the original author was, but it sure makes a lot of sense to me!   Can you see how this can be useful in dealing with co-workers, clients, contract...
01/24/2017
2017 FHA MIP Change That Wasn't I have seen so many facebook posts about the FHA MIP mortgagee letter that "postponed" the .25% MIP reduction within 1 hour after Donald Trump was sworn in as the President of the United States. Here's a few:But he just nullified the fee reduction for first time FH...
01/20/2017
Maryland Kids Doing Amazing Things-Hampstead, MD Meet Makenzie-Makenzie had a vision to help those in need in her community by opening a Little Pantry.  She got some help and her vision has become a reality. This is the Little PantryIt is a cabinet on the side of the prayer chapel at:St. John's U...
01/20/2017
Is a FREE Appraisal Really FREE? I had a past client call me to let me know that he was in the middle of a refinance with another lender but he was uncomfortable.While I never like to hear that one of my clients went elsewhere, I am always grateful when they need the right advice and return to me...
01/19/2017
FHA Lowers MIP 2017-Should every FHA borrower Refi? @Patty Blackwelder of Lorton, VA left this comment on my FHA Lowered the Mortgage Insurance-So What? post. Let me ask you can my past clients who have FHA Loan can do a stream line refinance to take advantage of the lower MIP?  If their rate is ...
01/18/2017
THINK BIGGER!! Part 3 SUCCESS MINDSET FOR REALTORS In Part 1 you found that there is a mind body connection to your money.   In Part 2, you thought about your WHY.  Today, In Part 3 I am sharing a couple of quick tips for you to help you to achieve the goals you set. Once you have your goal writt...
01/13/2017
FHA lowered the mortgage insurance-SO WHAT? You may have read or heard that FHA has lowered their annual mortgage insurance premium for loans CLOSED after January 29th.  UPDATE 1/18/2017  The Trump administration is postponing the change and could rescind it, leaving the MIP as it stands. Of cour...
01/12/2017
 THINK BIGGER!! Part 2  SUCCESS MINDSET FOR REALTORSThis is Part 2 of a  3 Part Series on SUCCESS MINDSET.  Hopefully you checked out Think Bigger Part 1. If not, check it out here.   OK, so now we have opened up some possibility, you can no longer pretend that where you are is enough.  You can f...
01/12/2017
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