Mortgage News

I have to give huge kudos to a fellow rainer who took the time to set me straight about something.  He showed me that my profile description and even on a larger scale, my business, is not about me.  It is about giving greater glory to God...More specifically being open to sharing the Good News w...

I received a message from one of our realtor partners this morning.  He has approximately 100 listings currently.  The message was encouraging to me because I am going through a tough deal right now and I was thinking that I must be doing something wrong.  All of the Realtors involved have been a...

If it was a good enough title to get millions of people to read his book, I thought the same might be true for the title of my blog.  Anyway, I have just started reading the book and I am going to be blogging on the different tools and resources that I am using from the book from time to time.  M...

Here is yet more motivation to get out there and get those buyers off the fence.  The Federal Open Market Committee decided to keep its target for the federal funds rate at 2 percent.  There was one dissenter on the committee who said that he recommended that they raise the target by a quarter.  ...

OK, I know that I usually have something to say about the market or how God is working in our business and will be helping us through our journey.  All I have to announce today is that our son was born on Sunday morning at 7:45am and he was 7 lbs and 13 ozs.  His name is Daijon Michael Roebuck an...

So, we have beat this dead horse over and over again, but I would like to bring a positive spin on this dead horse.  Here goes:  we need to be focused on the fact that the our first time home buyers are going to be getting an extra tax break to buy a house right now.  The down payment assistance ...

So, I don't know if I should be looking for divine guidance here...or...ok, I should always be looking for divine guidance, but I could use some more advice on this particular point...Here goes: I have a customer who is having a hard time with the amount that it is necessary for him to put down o...

So here is one that we can all relate to, I think.  Why don't our customers just do what we tell them to do? I know if they trusted us more they would, but the truth is, not even our family will do what we tell them to do if we leave them alone long enough.  My point is that you have to stay on t...

OK, everyone needs to take a look at the top line of your web page while you are reading this post.  I am relatively new to this AR thing, and what a great tool this referrals section is.  It blows me away why more agents and loan officers don't use it more frequently.  I am going to use it on my...

There is a group of men that get together every Monday to read scripture and generally support each other as fellow Christians.  I was wondering if a networking group based on Christian principles could be a good thing.  Obviously, I would not want to do the normal blatently marketing of yourself...