Ken Rishel
A Must Read by Frank Rolfe
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Frank Rolfe:The PBS News Hour recently ran a segment titled "Bad Bargain? Manufactured Homeowners Feel the Financial Strain", as a par...
Daniel Y.
Lenders! Share with us those magic numbers!
We all hear about those great rates being advertised on TV, the radio, and those annoying ads on any social media platform because EVERYONE is tracking you. You hear or see the "30 years fix rate at 2.75%! Call now!" ...
George Cen
Have applicants/renters run their own credit reports?
Hey, I'd like to get both landlords' and renters' thoughts on this. During the application process, I believe it is beneficial for both the landlord and the renter to have the renter be the one that runs his/her own r...
Jon Holdman
Great Consumer Crash of 2009
Here's a some lengthy, but very interesting and well researched paper on the economy in general. Focused on consumers overall, but a lot of material about housing. If the author is right, we've not seen anything yet...
Kate J.
Do I need an agent to sell?
Hi All! I am licensed RE agent, but I don't have experience in sales at all. Well, to be more precise all my purchases and sales I did for myself. So it is kind of limited experience. In all my sales I was dropping th...
Chris Seveney
Interesting Title Insurance Claim Decision
I found this article interesting as I have been involved in title claims on numerous occassions. In this case, because the bank handled the recording of the mortgage and the bank was careless in its process they denie...
Greg Gangle
Money Tied Up - How to get another property?
Hello everyoneI have purchased 4 rental properties in the past year and my money is all tied up (even LOC). My question is... how to progress to have the cash for another. The first thing I think of is the brrr, but i...
Edem Ahlidza
Life change and decision making
Ok, I need help. I am not the one to open up about my finances but this time, I need help. I am 37, and I have a house and a family with 3 girls. My house, I bought it last year for 530000. But I really want to be inv...
David Dachtera
Your Take on the NE IL Housing Market
Hello, Folks,I'm looking for other folks' takes on the housing market in the suburban and Metro Chicago areas.For example, ...Rehabs and Fix-and-flips: When you went to sell, how was your time-on-market compared to wh...
James H.
Mortgage interest rate changes
Well, its taken about 4 to 5 years for interest rates to drop about 3 percent, so roughly .75 percent per year. How fast do you thinnk they will rise? How fast can they rise? I am not well versed on what happened in t...