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Last Week in Review "A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION...BUT DON'T PUSH YOUR LUCK." Barbra Streisand obviously wasn't singing about Bond prices or interest rates in her 1980's song. But those lyrics were fitting last week when the Federal Reserve stepped in with more buying of Mortgage Backed Securities (MBS), helping ...

Wow.  Where we live and how we live....What drives us?  Are we, each of us, the sum total of our credit scores?  These scores affect our ability to rent a car, acquire and keep property and casualty insurance...open a bank account...and for 32% of all employers, the ability to choose the "best" candidate for the job. ...

In his work, Conspiracy of the Rich, Rich Dad entrepenour, Robert Kiosaki, discusses the fact that during our current crisis on Wall Street, wealth didn't evaporate, it just changed hands....WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH REAL ESTATE? Your equity, your value, may come back....If it does, and that's a big if, respected economists are ...

....From time to time, we come across others who impact our lives in a positive way, and unles you live on the Moon, you are aware our mainstream media rarely reports "good news"....I am not referring to Pollyanna News....Cake eating contests, modern art built with matchsticks, or "....man-eating dog subdued without harm by smiling ...

....are location, condition, price and TRAFFIC....That's it, no miracles, no "secrets".... ....traffic means MARKETING.... 87% of all homebuyers start with the web...is your home on the web?  Just the Multiple Listing Service, or MLS? That's not the web...At best, that's Realtor.com...that's "OK", ...

it was amazing how quickly I've been losing the weight.  11 pounds inside 3 weeks.  Yep, I'm OK with that. But the real amazing part was how much less I was spending on food....That and my kids are losing weight as well. More green vegetables, more chicken and fish....Less starchy carbs, less fried foods...S'all good.  ...

Has a bottom in real estate been reached?  Well at least some buyers think some.  The National Association of Realtors reported today that The Pending Home Sales Index rose 6.3% to 87.7 in December from a revised reading of 82.5 in November.  What happened?  Homes are simply becoming more affordable.  NAR's House ...

....Anxiety, pressure....THAT LAST GREAT GIFT IS JUST AROUND THE CORNER....You're bummed out, and the next stop os the food court....Just a quick drink, maybe a light lunch..... The irrestiable smells wafting from around the corner lure you in like a mosquito to a bug ...

Is there 100% Mortgage Financing on an Olathe and Overland Park Home? This is a real estate question I get asked quite a bit lately. The news media is reporting that there is no 100% mortgage financing. This information is not true. Depending on where you live, you have options. In Olathe and Overland Park, Kansas I would ...

If you haven't heard, the Fed dropped the interest rates 3/4 of a point. Typically when the Fed drops mortgage rates, the consumer mortgage interest rate is not affected. Typically, there is no change because the mortgage wholesalers have already anticipated the drop. Today; however, the wholesale lenders must have never anticipated the Fed ...

The Mortgage Advice Forums - Consumer mortgage advice from CMPS Certified Mortgage Planning SpecialistsRonnie Yarbrough has been assigned the State of Kansas.  This is a great site for consumer information and mortgage information.  This site is monitored in all 50 states and is built with the consumer in mind.  If you have any ...

I just met Ronnie Yarbrough a very successful Olathe mortgage loan professional after the Kansas City Chiefs game today. Ronnie works for Firstrust Mortgage. He told me that mortgage rates have gone down a 1/4 point and are expected to go down even more. He suggested not locking in on a rate but float. I asked him what that met and he said ...

This is the headline I saw in the newspaper this morning, The article reported that senators released a report lately suggesting a "rescue fund" for borrowers who are at risk of foreclosure. Combined with a nation's top trade group for Realtors offerring new projections that the housing slump is worsening. This kind of explains the ...