Archive for December, 2007
An easy way to tell if your Attorney is worth the price
Here is a small tip as to how you can tell if your attorney is paying any attention to your purchase or sale. Has the contract of sale been sent out within three days? Ask yourself that. If you hired an attorney, be it for a purchase or sale of a piece of property, and [...]
New mortgage legislation fails to help the ones who need it most
Recently I read a New York Times article, which can be found at http://homefinance.nytimes.com/article/news/2007.12.11.home The article dealt with the fact that the new legislation, intended to help ease mortgage pains, has done little to nothing to homeowners who genuinely need it. What I found more interesting is the article discusses the issue of people purchasing [...]
Advice for a First Time Home Buyer
Much has been said about who is to blame for this ongoing mortgage crisis. Some, and I believe correctly, point to the lending institutions which made mortgages readily available to those who did not, by any objective standards, qualify for the amount they financed. These people, who only a few years ago, would have had [...]
