Lee Walsh's Mortgage Blog

Mortgage insurance giant MGIC issued their 4th quarter and 2007 figures this month. Included was a $1.67 billion (with a B) loss. Many people only read the headlines on stories like this, then they would rather shoot their PC than read more doom and gloom. I  fought the urge and read the news any...

In the post SEO part 1, I reviewed the difficulty in being located in a relevant organic (non-paying)  search for your service on search engines like Google and Yahoo. As an example for the term “florida mortgage”  Google has 5,560,000 listings.   In SEO part 2, I showed how the title with meta ...

Are you a del.icio.us member? Have you tagged Active Rain? Here is the BIG question how do you have Active Rain tagged? If you look AR up on del.icio.us you will find a lot of different listings. Take a look at your tagged sites.  What is the count at the end of the listing for: “saved by xxx ot...

Most people find a real estate agent, find the home, and make an offer, then scramble to find a mortgage loan. Let me give you a few reasons why I think you should consider taking care of the mortgage first. A large portion of contract extensions are written because the financing is not finalize...

No I don't mean 2007 compared to 2006, 2005 or 2004. But was it really so bad? About a month ago I saw a statistic that said we are near 1995 real estate sales levels. That seems dismal to many. This is especially true if you have only been in the business for 3-6 years. I relocated to Orlando i...

In part 1 we discussed how difficult is is to locate your website based on your content or area of focus. The major search engines like Google and Yahoo (yes there are others) are basically an index of sites that use the web page title, the Meta Description and text content of the site to determi...

An article in today's Orlando Sentinel showed that downtown Orlando condo developers are finally facing the hard reality that we are overbuilt. This has been one of the head scratching issues for the last year. Why are developers continuing to make plans to build more when what is available is no...

Just about everyone in the mortgage and real estate business has a web presence. You have a web site, a blog, or at least a web page. If you do not I’ll bet you a good lunch that you are thinking about getting one. Most people spend all of their time on the “look” of the site. They focus on the l...

A long time associate, friend and mentor of mine, Moe Davis is writing a book about football, life and motivation. I asked Moe to send me an excerpt from the book. This article is based on a forthcoming book by Moe Davis. The book is the fictional account of Bobby Biggers and his rise from obscur...

I’m Lee Walsh, this is my blog about the real estate and mortgage business and how to make new business friends. I am close to my 20th year in the mortgage industry (it doesn’t seem that long). I’ve worked in residential and commercial lending in both wholesale and retail management. Before I ent...