Jay Beckingham's (jayb) Blog

that's a quote from George Bernard Shaw. Some people think that good olde George was a wise and inciteful human being. Some of the younger ones amongst us may be thinking Who? their loss. George went on to complete the thought; how will you know what people heard when the communication is one way...

well is it? are you not quite sure what it is? let me help, if I can. Websters; overlay   1 spread over   2 cover with decorative layer Not sure that helped much? or did it? I'm going to throw out the "cover with a decorative layer," because some of the overlays I've seen applied to mortgage guid...

$47.25 Million, that's chump change, right. Let's look at it differently $47,250,000 That actually looks like more now doesn't it? Here's the deal as reported in our local rag; On March 15th, Randal Bellestri paid $47.25 million for a 4 acre beachfront compound on Gordon Drive in Naples Florida. ...

I don't know why I've been thinking about this so much. I guess maybe I'd just like to live in a simpler world sometimes, where things actually are as they appear to be. So, what's really real? Here's Websters take real   actual, true; genuine   Let's say I'm attracted to you, want to do business...

okay, I open the website and I see a picture of this gentleman and he looks 40 ish with brown hair and a full brown beard. Attached is a video about material which is company is marketing. I have an interest so I click on the arrow and open the video. His father is doing the presentation! You can...

you know, ordinarily in a posting about Cape Coral I'd want to make sure I mentioned our 400+ miles of waterfront and I'd certainly want to sneak in a shameless plug about the weather like currently it's sunny and 70 degrees heading to a high in the upper 80's  today I'm going to leave that stuff...

Well are you? or maybe you're not familar with Homepath. You know, like what's a Homepath? Homepath is actually an excellent financing option, provided by fannie mae, to sell their foreclosures. That's right fannie mae, FNMA, properties only want to check it out for yourself, that's www.homepath....

You just don't know how many functions, Realtor Breakfast's, WCR functions, etc, where I hear this all the time All my buyers pay cash I admit that there is a great deal of $$$$$ flowing into Southwest Florida, and in spite of the inaccuracies being reported by the national media, there has been ...

I was talking with my boss, Joanne, the other day, and I told her that I thought one of the good signs for our market was that there were suddenly dumptrucks everywhere, in some cases blocking or slowing down the traffic. For a mortgage lender dumptrucks are a good sign, because that means people...

Way back, many, many years ago I entered into the mortgage business and I started out by working for a mortgage company. Over the 30 plus years that I have been involved in mortgage lending I have worked for several banking institutions, but actually still as a mortgage banker. I always find it i...