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By Kathleen Daniels, Probate & Trust Specialist, Probate Real Estate Services
(KD Realty - 408.972.1822)
We are shaped by people and experiences throughout our lives. In the March ActiveRain challenge hosted by Lew Corcoran and Patricia Faeger, we are asked to share the profound impact someone had on you in shaping you into who you are today.If you want to know why I am the way I am today, it is largely due to how My Parents Shaped Who I Am Today, they set a strong foundation.The experiences I had, the things I feared, the things I loved, and how throughout my life I emerged from the "Dark Night of the Soul" experiences also shaped me into who I become. While the term may mean different things to people, my reference here is in the spiritual sense. "The "dark night of the soul" refers to a phase of deep spiritual crisis or emotional turmoil, often characterized by feelings of despair and a...
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By Steve Leung
(Silicon Valley Real Estate)
Who says startup companies are the only reason Silicon Valley is glamorous?  Who says you need to head up to San Francisco for the urban scene?Santana Row is a uniquely Northern Californian fusion of design, culture and accessibility, recreating the atmosphere of Paris' Champs Elysees using a distinctly Silicon Valley neo-Mediterranean architecture.A bustling farmers market lines the streets on Sunday mornings in quaint contrast to the exotic car meets on Saturdays.But for all the testosterone from the horsepower and club life of the weekends, Santana Row is an amazingly eccelctic place where strollers share the spotlight with Ferraris and people of all walks of life can enjoy the live music.This walking tour starts from the garage on Olin Avenue, which is most easily accessible from Wi...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
    The Capital of Silicon Valley is suffering from the foreclosure wave throught out the country, or is it just a meltdown of the market, which is taking all over the nation. Pundit's, financial expert has been going "ga-ga" over the foreclosure loom which would be sweeping the country for the past two (2) years.    Time would justtell if it is just a "meltdown", or a real bust, like what happened five (5) years during the tech bubble.  At thattime, every one invested all most all their equity in the tech stock's, for the most part a big portion of their retirement has just evaporated.   At that time over $9 trillion dollar just "gone in the wind", but the sub prime sector which is the biggest loser in this sector is not as big as the tech bust was ! unless it does not go through out t...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
  Rumors have sprung up that Goldman Sachs is interested in buying Accredited, which helped their stock price yesterday.   National City said that it wrote off $11 million stemming from subprime home loans, expects to write off more, and may boost reserves by $50 million because an insurer is rejecting mortgage-related claims.   IndyMac Bancorp Inc., who is the ninth biggest U.S. mortgage lender with $90 billion in fundings last year and who has seen its stock drop 36% this year, said its exposure to subprime mortgages is small. The company stated that most of its loans were prime loans to borrowers with high credit scores, or Alt-A which had high credit score borrowers with alternative documentation.
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
  Check this one folks !    This people are making our industry a bad reputation !  Whether you believe it or not, we have helped thousands of people save a lot of money, thru taxes, debt consolidation, lowering the house payments, etc...  But some folks right here, has just made us a mock, and a commodity in this professional field. There are two ways you can make money $$$, the right way, or the wrong way. These people have tried to make their money through their way ! Check this news:  http://origin.insidebayarea.com/argus/localnews/ci_5412059 http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2007/02/19/story2.html     C'mon, let's make our industry based on trust worthiness, integrity, and full of trust. 
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By Kip & Tamara Barnard, Broker Assoc., Realtor ASP
(Coldwell Banker)
Running east along Highway 101 to the foothills, south of Quimby Rd and North of Silver Creek Rd lies the Evergreen area in San Jose.It encompasses the  95138, 95148, 95122, 95121 & 95135 zip codes.  You can still find affordable homes with good schools as well as multi-million dollar homes in the Silver Creek Ranch & Golf Course Community.If you would like more information about real estate in the Evergreen area, visit our web site http://www.kipandtam.com/ 
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
      Subprime companies that specialize in B & C paper loans have suffered as housing prices stopped rising and interest rates climbed from record lows.  A credit crunch in the market for low-end mortgages has left companies specializing in these subprime loans at the mercy of big banks like Merrill Lynch & Co. Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan Chase.  The merge could save the ailling sub prime market, if all the sub prime meltdown takes place a lot family would go in default after the expiration of their ARM's.  The regulators inWashington has to take a shot, and encourage all the big financial investment bankers to come out with a solution.  A big demise of this market would follow cycle of economic slow down.  A big part of the investmentof the baby boomers are in their houses.  Housing...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
 Subprime mortgages are offered to home buyers who fail to meet the strictest lending standards. While these loans remain a small part of the home lending industry, they've helped more people buy homes who previously couldn't afford it, helping to fuel a surge in housing prices in 2004 and 2005.  By cutting off access to credit for these extra buyers, demand for homes may fall further, depressing prices and fueling a broader slowdown in the U.S. housing market. If a client is not able to meet the A paper guidelinets, they are transferedthrough sub prime guidelines.   Lately all the sub prime lenders have been behaving irrationally because of the rise in default, and a near triple rise in foreclosure.  A number of the sub prime lenders has to file a bankruptcy protection after having fin...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
          Subprime mortgages are offered to home buyers who fail to meet the strictest lending standards. Lenders specializing in such loans, like New Century, Country Wide, Indy Mac rely in part on big banks known as  warehouse lenders to finance their operations. These backers require that subprime lenders meet certain minimum financial targets; otherwise, they have the right to end the business relationship.        All the ware house line of the lenders are in the RED mark.  The tightening of the sub prime would significantly slow the economy as a whole.  A big portion of the investment of the vast majority of the people are still their houses.  With ARM expiring soon, they would have to re-adjust their finances all over again.
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By Kip & Tamara Barnard, Broker Assoc., Realtor ASP
(Coldwell Banker)
The Cambrian neighborhood is about four square miles nestled in a quiet West San Jose location. The Cambrian area of San Jose runs between highway 17 and the Almaden expressway, north of Blossom Hill Rd and south of Foxworthy Ave.  It encompasses the 95124, 95118 and a small part of the 95008 zip codes.If you would like more information about real estate in the Cambrian area, please visit our website at: http://www.kipandtam.com/
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By Steve Leung
(Silicon Valley Real Estate)
Just last March, redevelopment plan for North San Jose was stuck --- tangled in a lawsuit by neighboring cities Santa Clara and Milpitas over traffic flow.  The plantiffs contended that the proposed redevelopment would create population growth and traffic problems that would spill over into neighboring cities as well as I-880.How quickly things change. In December, the Santa Clara County Superior Court approved a settlement allowing the vision for North San Jose to proceed.  Now, Cadence Design Systems has announced that it intends to perform a major renovation on its headquarters, constructing a five-story 208,000 square-foot building to house all their 2,100 headquarters employees.  They currently have four separate low-rise buildings which will be obsoleted under the plan....
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By Chris C., San Jose Mortgage
(BAYAREALOANGUY.COM)
We finally have a Morton's steak house in the Silicon Valley! This is such a nice addition to downtown San Jose. My wife and I attended their "rehearsal/soft opening" a few weeks ago and were impressed with the quality and freshness of their product. The service was good, I'm sure it'll get better as soon as they finish training. You'll be happy with the food!Morton's San JoseMy other site - www.whereieat.com 177 Park Avenue, Suite 100San Jose, CA 95113 Best Regards,Chris Casel (San Jose Mortgage Consultant)W I R E  Financial355 Santana Row, Suite 2020San Jose, Ca. 95128Direct: 408.551.2119Cell: 408.930.4519ccasel@gmail.comhttp://www.bayarealoanguy.com/ The greatest compliment I can receive from my clients is a referral. Thank you for your business.
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
Why is the person who invests your money called a "broker"? Wells Fargo led the pack in retail originations last year with roughly $160 billion for 2006. They were followed by Countrywide, BofA, WAMU, and Chase in the top 5. Also on the list were Golden West, Quicken, USAA, and First Magnus (#20 with roughly $11 billion for the year). Given the stronger-than-expected economic reports, and steady inflation numbers, few analysts still believe that the Fed is going to lower interest rates before June, or even early autumn. As far as market direction, for the short-term, a few days and up to a week, most see the bond market "neutral". What will change this? Probably not much this week. Later today we have Leading Economic Indicators (estimated +.2%) and an $8 billion 20-yr TIPS auction. (Tr...
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By Steve Mun, Silicon Valley Realtor
(Keller Williams Silicon Valley)
I am building a website.  Or perhaps it will be more accurate to say I am re-building my website - almost on a daily basis, it seems to me...  The more I learn about building a website, the more I realize I what I have gotten myself into.  I had a website which was provided by Alain Pinel Realtors, but it was a basic single page website with very little room for flexibility and almost no ability to add more content.  So began my quest to expand my presence on the web.  I am no webmaster, far from it, I don't even know html, but many people were building their own websites, so I saw no reason why I could not?  I started with a hosting site which provided a simple template form.  It was a bit cumbersome because I was learning as I was going along, but I managed to build the content in a f...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
REVERSE MORTGAGES: This new law provides protection to consumers who obtain reverse mortgages. This law prohibits certain self-dealing activities by companies providing reverse mortgages, requires certain additional disclosures for reverse mortgages, and also requires a translation of the contract for a reverse mortgage to the language in which primarily negotiated.  This law requires lenders and mortgage broker to perform certain acts, and also prohibits certain practices when selling reverse mortgages. The provisions of this new law become effective on January 1, 2007. Source: Assembly Bill 1609. California withholding tax alternative upon transfer:  This new law provides an alternative to the current California withholding tax requirement upon transfer of real property of paying thre...
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       People doing business with Ownit Mortgage received this notice yesterday: "It is with deep regret that we inform you Ownit Mortgage Solutions will cease operations on December 6, 2006.  For the past three years, we have pursued a mission to influence the mortgage industry toward increased affordability options for a changing market of home buyers.  Change takes time, and we are saddened that the current unfavorable conditions of the mortgage industry did not afford us sufficient time to see our mission through." There are many rumors about what happened; most focus on Ownit being overwhelmed by repurchase requests.       People in the industry should be cautious in each and every move they are taking.  I think a lot for foreclosure,and default would be coming in the market.  It's...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
Need Help With A FORCLOSURE??I have been working with the real estate investor who has studied the foreclosure process. We are familiar with the procedure and understand the many ways in which owners can halt the foreclosure and perhaps save their property and equity. It is in our practice to contact owners who have received official notice of a pending foreclosure. We believe we may be able to help you by providing information about your foreclosure options. Sometimes excellent investment opportunities are found when owners have decided that they no longer wish to keep their property. Specifically, there are eight actions you can take when your home is in foreclosure. We would like to share these options with you at no cost or obligation to you. We do this to increase our chances for i...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
don't over trust your realtor. they are in the business of making money... and make sure .... that would be your money...thinking that you know better that your real estate professional. that is really bad in your part~ but being able to know how everything. they are (real estate professional~ name~ly: realtor, mortgage broker, escrow officer,...)over extending your self. i did it ! so i know it really hurts. "ask me, i'll tell you!"being not the motivated. if you are not motivated. forget it.not in control of your desire. must be prepared to take control of your self, the real estate, etc. "don't brag, i think I am better that you?prepare to take risk. you better have to. "my parents think, i am nuts"get an advice. you better have to take advice. if not your a history.give me an advice...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
Foreclosure has been steadily going up, the economy is uncertain, with Bernanke still guessing what to do the with the short term rate. Who are we to blame for this biggest real estate appreciation of the history, closing with a bust! Is that the irrational exuberance of the peoplewho invested their money. Seeking financial boost for the nest egg. A lot of questions would be lingering within the coming months.Help would not really come from uncle bernanke, nor the government would take any steps to curb the number of foreclosures in the market. With the war still at peaks, and recession on his in the country, for the growing number of people who are agitated with the discount rate being up for almost 21 straight months straight.We need to get a help or atleast a guidance from the govern...
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By raman kandola
(kandola mortgage services)
  To be in the top you need to have a good business strategy.  You have to attack, and check the balance every time in order for you to suceed in the business.  Starting alone is really dificult and fun.  You are doing a one man show!  As you intend to grow, you would not have enought time with your works.  The stategy changes from there.  Subordinating- would help> in regards you need to find some one who is really reliable, your ability to change and maneuover changes simultaneously.Adapting- would> play a key role in this stage. Speed-> keep others disadvantage in to your advantage.  Be fast, quick and precise with the clients, and all your work.. Why> ask- yourself. everytime you miss some thing? WHY and WHAT happened. Communication- Keep an open communication, let every one knows e...
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