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Forum Last week's report indicated that we would have a roller coaster week pending today's Employment numbers, and it turns out that I was right.  This week was full of news, but nothing so important as the employment figures. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly Employment Situat...

Forum This week's mortgage rates ended the week almost at last week's lows after a volatile last few days.  Several factors weighed in on rates rising most of the week; most notably,with the Fed's announcement that they would be ending their purchase of mortgage backed securities in March.  Rates...

Forum Mortgage Rates Improve, Stocks Fall While the economic data released this week had little impact, mortgage rates were heavily influenced by two big stories. One was an announcement that China will take steps to slow its economic growth and the other was President Obama's proposed new restri...

Forum PROPERTY TAX RELIEF The County Assessor's Office wishes to notify property owners that tax relief is available if their property's market value has fallen below its assessed value. Your property's assessed value is shown in the upper right hand corner of your current tax bill. For all pract...

Forum Forgive my disappearance, but between Blue Screens ( Term for Computer Virus ) and cold it has been challenging for the last few weeks. Rates this week ended fairly well as most economic news this week did not bode well for the economy.  Below are highlights of this weeks news and rates for...

Forum Currently, I am working from my son's computer.   I can't describe the frustration that one can experience from what is called a Blue Screen. I don't mean to get personal, but I don't hit porn sites or such, and restrict my sites to business, or email.  Wednesday night, I was reviewing AR a...

Forum Mixed Week for Mortgage Markets This week's economic news was mixed for mortgage markets. A speech from Fed Chief Bernanke pushed mortgage rates lower early in the week, but weak results in the Treasury auctions caused them to turn higher again later in the week. In the end, mortgage rates ...

Forum Christmas is almost around the corner, so I hope that you don't mind if I divert off-topic for today.  Like many, I am trying to wrap up the year end, and plan for 2010.  Although I have survived another year, I hope that all of us can look forward to a better year next year.  Yet, somethin...

Forum Today is Friday, December 4, 2009, and the financial markets ended up slightly down for the week.  Yet, mortgage rates are still holding to all time lows, even though just slightly higher than the beginning of the week.  Today was an erratic day in the financial markets with today's employm...

Forum My Apologies.............I missed Last Week's report over the Thanksgiving Holiday as I was out of town. I don't normally issue a mid-week report unless it is important/ Rates have Hit All Time Lows.  The last Two Days have seen a slight Rise from the Lows this week. Recommendation............